Oracle Taleo
Oracle Taleo provides organizations with tools to source, recruit, and onboard candidates.
What Oracle Taleo is
Oracle Taleo provides organizations with tools to source, recruit, and onboard candidates. Enterprise Edition supports configurable hiring, from branded career sites, marketing campaigns, job postings, and referrals to screening, interviews, offers, and onboarding. Business Edition sources candidates through job boards, social media, and employee referrals, with customizable workflows, automated communications and task assignment, analytics dashboards, and branded onboarding. Its Talent Management offering adds goals, reviews, career development plans, succession identification, workforce tracking, and employee feedback. Reporting covers sourcing, assessments, candidate communications, onboarding, and measures including candidate quality, time to hire, and talent costs. Taleo is listed for Android, iOS, web, and API, with experiences for desktop, tablet, and mobile. Integrations include LinkedIn, and Oracle describes a network of more than 200 certified partner offerings. Taleo Connect Client supports customer-built integration processes. Pricing is on request. Some Business Edition guides and technical resources require an active customer account and My Oracle Support contract.
Good
- Supports sourcing, recruiting, and onboarding.
- Offers configurable hiring workflows.
- Reports on recruiting measures and processes.
- Includes talent-management features in Business Edition.
- Supports LinkedIn integrations and partner offerings.
Watch out
- Pricing is available on request.
- Some support materials require a support contract.
- The Web Services API excludes rpc/encoded messages.
Who it suits
Taleo suits organizations that need recruiting and onboarding workflows, or broader talent-management features such as reviews and succession planning. Its multiple sourcing channels and configurable processes are relevant to teams hiring across different roles.
Verdict
Oracle Taleo covers recruiting workflows from candidate sourcing through onboarding, with additional talent-management functions in Business Edition. Organizations should account for its on-request pricing and the access requirements for some support materials.
The facts
Each one read from Oracle Taleo's own pages, with the date it was checked.
What it does
- Analytics
- Taleo reporting covers sourcing processes, talent assessments, candidate communications, onboarding, and recruiting KPIs such as candidate quality, time to hire, and talent costs.checked 12 Oct 2026
- API limit
- The Taleo Web Services API supports SOAP document/literal messages and does not support rpc/encoded style.checked 12 Oct 2026
- Business Edition recruiting
- Taleo Business Edition supports sourcing through job boards, social media, and employee referrals, plus customizable recruiting workflows, automated communications and task assignment, analytics dashboards, and branded onboarding.checked 12 Oct 2026
- Career site
- Yeschecked 20 Sep 2026
- Configurable hiring
- Taleo Enterprise Edition offers configurable hiring tools intended to help organizations get talent at scale.checked 12 Oct 2026
- Credential storage
- Taleo Connect Client encrypts locally stored integration user passwords with AES using a 128-bit key.checked 12 Oct 2026
- Enterprise recruiting
- Taleo Enterprise Edition supports configurable hiring, branded career sites, marketing campaigns, automated job postings, referrals, candidate screening, interview management, offers, and onboarding.checked 12 Oct 2026
- Integrations
- The Taleo Web Services API supports integrations with HRIS, data warehouses, and financial systems including Oracle, PeopleSoft, JD Edwards, SAP, and Lawson.checked 12 Oct 2026
- Integration security
- Oracle’s Taleo Enterprise Edition adapter supports a Username Password Token policy and requires an integration user with System Integrator permissions.checked 12 Oct 2026
- Integration tools
- Taleo Connect Client lets customers build and run integration processes in their own environment and supports Taleo message formats based on XML, SOAP, and WS-Addressing, as well as custom formats through transformations.checked 12 Oct 2026
- Interview scheduling
- Yeschecked 20 Sep 2026
- Job board distribution
- Yeschecked 20 Sep 2026
- Partner ecosystem
- Oracle says Taleo has more than 200 certified partner offerings and integrations with LinkedIn.checked 12 Oct 2026
- Pricing information
- Oracle’s opened Taleo Cloud Service Global Price List is dated October 9, 2014 and says its prices are subject to change without notice.checked 12 Oct 2026
- Purpose
- Oracle Taleo provides tools for sourcing, recruiting, and onboarding candidates.checked 12 Oct 2026
- Recruiting workflow
- Enterprise Edition includes candidate screening, interview management, offer creation, and onboarding tools.checked 12 Oct 2026
- Resume parsing
- Yeschecked 20 Sep 2026
- Security
- Taleo Connect Client supports TLS 1.2, and Oracle recommends Full SSL so Taleo-hosted environments accept only HTTPS requests.checked 12 Oct 2026
- Security detail
- Oracle’s Taleo Connect documentation recommends Full SSL, which makes Taleo-hosted environments accept HTTPS requests; it states that HTTP transmission is not encrypted.checked 12 Oct 2026
- Sourcing
- Enterprise Edition includes branded career sites, marketing campaigns, automated job postings, and referrals.checked 12 Oct 2026
The company
- Company
- Oracle Corporation was founded in 1977 and lists its corporate headquarters in Austin, Texas.checked 12 Oct 2026
- Company founded
- Oracle's company history says Larry Ellison, Bob Miner, and Ed Oates founded Software Development Laboratories in 1977.checked 12 Oct 2026
- Headquarters
- Oracle lists its world headquarters at 2300 Oracle Way, Austin, Texas 78741.checked 12 Oct 2026
Where it runs
- Devices
- Oracle describes Taleo experiences for desktop, tablet, and mobile devices.checked 12 Oct 2026
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