Jobpartners, the people and talent management solutions provider, has announced that its ActiveRecruiter e-recruitment solution is to be deployed by sportswear giant adidas Group across 100 locations worldwide by the end of 2010.  

Adidas Group currently employs more than 40,000 staff worldwide. Previously, the company did not have a consistent structure in place to support internal or external recruitment and share talent globally, but the partnership with ActiveRecruiter aims to achieve this.

“In the past we relied heavily on headhunters to find and acquire talent, which led to a considerable amount of our recruitment budget being spent on headhunter fees,” said Steve Bonomo, global head of group recruiting at adidas.

“With this in mind, we made the decision to bring our recruitment back in-house with the aim of reducing our annual recruitment spend and improving our process as a whole.”