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What it is

Oracle Taleo provides tools for sourcing, recruiting and onboarding candidates, with recruiting workflows for organizations of different sizes. Enterprise Edition includes configurable hiring, branded career sites, marketing campaigns, automated job postings, referrals, candidate screening, interview management, offers and onboarding. Business Edition supports candidate sourcing through job boards, social media and employee referrals, alongside customizable workflows, automated communications and task assignment, dashboards and branded onboarding. Its Talent Management offering covers goals, automated reviews, career development, succession identification, workforce tracking and ongoing employee feedback. Reporting spans sourcing, assessments, candidate communications, onboarding and recruiting measures such as candidate quality, time to hire and talent costs. Oracle describes experiences for desktop, tablet and mobile devices; listed platforms include web, Android, iOS and API. The company describes more than 200 Taleo-certified partner offerings and LinkedIn integrations. Taleo Connect Client lets customers build integration processes in their own environment, using supported Taleo message formats or transformations for custom formats. Oracle recommends Full SSL for Taleo-hosted environments, and says HTTP transmission is not encrypted. Pricing is on request. Some Business Edition documentation and implementation resources require an active customer account and support contract.

Spec sheet

Purpose
Oracle Taleo provides tools for sourcing, recruiting, and onboarding candidates.Read 12 Oct 2026 · oracle.com
Integrations
The Taleo Web Services API supports integrations with HRIS, data warehouses, and financial systems including Oracle, PeopleSoft, JD Edwards, SAP, and Lawson.Read 12 Oct 2026 · docs.oracle.com
Security
Taleo Connect Client supports TLS 1.2, and Oracle recommends Full SSL so Taleo-hosted environments accept only HTTPS requests.Read 12 Oct 2026 · docs.oracle.com
Support
Oracle provides Taleo customer support resources through My Oracle Support, and states that access to some Business Edition documentation requires an active customer account and support contract.Read 12 Oct 2026 · oracle.com
Headquarters
Oracle lists its world headquarters at 2300 Oracle Way, Austin, Texas 78741.Read 12 Oct 2026 · oracle.com
Company
Oracle Corporation was founded in 1977 and lists its corporate headquarters in Austin, Texas.Read 12 Oct 2026 · oracle.com
Analytics
Taleo reporting covers sourcing processes, talent assessments, candidate communications, onboarding, and recruiting KPIs such as candidate quality, time to hire, and talent costs.Read 12 Oct 2026 · oracle.com
API limit
The Taleo Web Services API supports SOAP document/literal messages and does not support rpc/encoded style.Read 12 Oct 2026 · docs.oracle.com
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.Read 12 Oct 2026 · oracle.com
Career site
YesRead 20 Sep 2026 · oracle.com
Company founded
Oracle's company history says Larry Ellison, Bob Miner, and Ed Oates founded Software Development Laboratories in 1977.Read 12 Oct 2026 · oracle.com
Configurable hiring
Taleo Enterprise Edition offers configurable hiring tools intended to help organizations get talent at scale.Read 12 Oct 2026 · oracle.com
Credential storage
Taleo Connect Client encrypts locally stored integration user passwords with AES using a 128-bit key.Read 12 Oct 2026 · docs.oracle.com
Devices
Oracle describes Taleo experiences for desktop, tablet, and mobile devices.Read 12 Oct 2026 · oracle.com
Enterprise recruiting
Taleo Enterprise Edition supports configurable hiring, branded career sites, marketing campaigns, automated job postings, referrals, candidate screening, interview management, offers, and onboarding.Read 12 Oct 2026 · oracle.com
Integration security
Oracle’s Taleo Enterprise Edition adapter supports a Username Password Token policy and requires an integration user with System Integrator permissions.Read 12 Oct 2026 · docs.oracle.com
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.Read 12 Oct 2026 · docs.oracle.com
Interview scheduling
YesRead 20 Sep 2026 · oracle.com
Job board distribution
YesRead 20 Sep 2026 · oracle.com
Partner ecosystem
Oracle says Taleo has more than 200 certified partner offerings and integrations with LinkedIn.Read 12 Oct 2026 · oracle.com
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.Read 12 Oct 2026 · oracle.com
Recruiting workflow
Enterprise Edition includes candidate screening, interview management, offer creation, and onboarding tools.Read 12 Oct 2026 · oracle.com
Resume parsing
YesRead 20 Sep 2026 · oracle.com
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.Read 12 Oct 2026 · docs.oracle.com
Sourcing
Enterprise Edition includes branded career sites, marketing campaigns, automated job postings, and referrals.Read 12 Oct 2026 · oracle.com
Support access
Taleo Business Edition release notes, technical guides, and implementation tools require a My Oracle Support contract, and its Help Guides are available to active customers.Read 12 Oct 2026 · oracle.com
Talent management
Taleo Business Edition Talent Management includes goal creation, automated reviews, career development plans, succession identification, workforce tracking, and ongoing employee feedback.Read 12 Oct 2026 · oracle.com
Workflow automation
YesRead 20 Sep 2026 · oracle.com

Strong points and limits

Strong points

  • Enterprise Edition covers screening through onboarding.
  • Business Edition supports job boards, social media and referrals.
  • Talent Management includes goals, reviews and career plans.
  • Reports include time to hire and candidate quality.
  • Oracle describes more than 200 certified partner offerings.

Limits

  • Pricing is available on request.
  • Some Business Edition materials require a support contract.
  • Oracle says HTTP transmission is not encrypted.

Who it suits

Taleo suits organizations that need candidate sourcing, recruiting and onboarding workflows, with additional talent-management tools in Business Edition. It may also suit teams building their own integrations with Taleo Connect Client.

Verdict

Taleo combines recruiting workflows with reporting and, in Business Edition, broader talent-management features.

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