Party City Selects the Most Qualified Candidates with Infor

NEW YORK, Jan. 15, 2018 /PRNewswire/ -- Infor, a leading provider of industry-specific cloud applications, today announced that Party City, a leading party goods retailer in North America with more than 900 stores, has selected Infor Talent Science to streamline hiring process and select the most qualified candidates. Infor^® Talent Science™ leverages cutting edge technology to deliver talent management insights that are deep, yet easy to understand. The solution combines powerful analytics and behavioral science to create a technology platform that dramatically increases HR's business impact.

"We decided to partner with Infor to identify the key success traits of our top employees, so we could make our workforce more productive," said Jim Viola, vice president, Party City. "By bringing modern technology into our hiring practices, we're able to gain greater insight and develop best practices so our teams can provide a superior customer experience."

Infor Talent Science delivers insight that is customized into predictive models that assist hiring managers to better select, retain, and develop the right talent across the entire employee life cycle. This easily integrated and scalable solution evaluates 39 behavioral, cognitive, and cultural traits to expose a candidate's Behavioral DNA^®. The pre-employment assessment software allows users to compare and contrast the characteristics of a candidate against the attributes of their strongest performers, which is built in a Performance Profile. That Performance Profile is based on incumbent assessment results and performance data. Once established, the Performance Profile becomes the benchmark for defining success in a given role, providing a consistent structure and a common language for evaluating people.

Beyond the selection process, organizations can use the gathered data for comprehensive insight throughout the employee lifecycle. Hiring managers can receive easy-to-understand behavioral data that they can use to uncover employee strengths, deliver high impact coaching, establish short-term and long-term goals, and develop a strategy for career path planning.

"Regardless of the goal, from improving customer service to increasing sales, hiring the right talent is key to driving those results," said Corey Tollefson, senior vice president and general manager, Infor Retail. "We're fusing cutting edge technology into our retail-specific applications so our customers can create business strategies that work. Using Infor Talent Science, retailers can reduce employee turnover, increase sales per hour averages by hiring more capable candidates, and streamline the hiring process by using predictive models."

For more information please visit http://www.infor.com/industries/retail/.

About Party City
Party City Holdco Inc. is the leading party goods retailer in North America and the largest vertically integrated supplier of decorated party goods globally. The Company is a popular onestop shopping destination for party supplies, balloons, and costumes. In addition to being a great retail brand, Party City Holdco Inc. is a global, world-class organization that combines state-of-the-art manufacturing and sourcing operations, and sophisticated wholesale operations with a multi-channel retailing strategy that includes the Party City brick and mortar and ecommerce retail operations. The Company is the leading player in its category, vertically integrated and unique in its breadth and depth. Party City Holdco Inc. designs, manufactures, sources and distributes party goods, including paper and plastic tableware, metallic and latex balloons, Halloween and other costumes, accessories, novelties, gifts and stationery throughout the world. The Company's retail operations include over 900 specialty retail party supply stores in the United States and Canada, operating under the names Party City and Halloween City, and e-commerce websites, principally through the domain name PartyCity.com. The Company also franchises both individual stores and franchise areas throughout the United States and Puerto Rico, principally under the name Party City.

About Infor
Infor builds business software for specific industries in the cloud. With 16,000 employees and over 90,000 customers in more than 170 countries, Infor software is designed for progress.  To learn more, please visit www.infor.com.

For more information:
Christina Ledger
Infor
(312) 662-2135
[email protected]

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