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Oracle Taleo
Oracle lists its world headquarters at 2300 Oracle Way, Austin, Texas 78741.
What it is
Oracle Taleo provides tools for sourcing, recruiting, and onboarding candidates, with editions for enterprise and business recruiting needs. Enterprise Edition includes configurable hiring, branded career sites, marketing campaigns, automated job postings, referrals, candidate screening, interview management, offers, and onboarding. Business Edition supports sourcing through job boards, social media, and employee referrals, along with customizable workflows, automated communications and task assignment, dashboards, and branded onboarding. Its Talent Management tools cover goals, reviews, career development, succession identification, workforce tracking, and employee feedback. Reporting addresses sourcing, assessments, communications, onboarding, and measures such as candidate quality, time to hire, and talent costs. Oracle describes Taleo experiences for desktop, tablet, and mobile, and lists Android, iOS, web, and API access. Oracle also describes more than 200 certified partner offerings and integrations with LinkedIn. Taleo Connect Client supports customer-built integrations in their own environment, including XML, SOAP, and WS-Addressing message formats. Pricing is available on request; access to some Business Edition documentation and support resources requires an active customer account and support contract.
For and against
For
- Career sites, job postings, screening, and onboarding tools
- Business Edition includes automated communications and task assignment
- Reporting covers recruiting measures and talent assessments
- Oracle describes more than 200 certified partner offerings
Against
- Pricing is available only on request
- Some documentation and support resources require a support contract
- API does not support rpc/encoded style
The verdict
Taleo spans recruiting and onboarding workflows, with additional talent-management and reporting features in Business Edition. Organizations considering it should confirm pricing and support access, and check that its API message-format limits fit their integration needs.
Who it suits
Taleo is for organizations that need tools for candidate sourcing, recruiting, onboarding, or broader talent management. Its Enterprise Edition supports configurable hiring, while Business Edition includes recruiting workflows and talent-management capabilities.
On the record
- Analytics
- Taleo reporting covers sourcing processes, talent assessments, candidate communications, onboarding, and recruiting KPIs such as candidate quality, time to hire, and talent costs.oracle.com · read 12 Oct 2026
- API limit
- The Taleo Web Services API supports SOAP document/literal messages and does not support rpc/encoded style.docs.oracle.com · read 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.oracle.com · read 12 Oct 2026
- Career site
- Yesoracle.com · read 20 Sep 2026
- Company
- Oracle Corporation was founded in 1977 and lists its corporate headquarters in Austin, Texas.oracle.com · read 12 Oct 2026
- Company founded
- Oracle's company history says Larry Ellison, Bob Miner, and Ed Oates founded Software Development Laboratories in 1977.oracle.com · read 12 Oct 2026
- Configurable hiring
- Taleo Enterprise Edition offers configurable hiring tools intended to help organizations get talent at scale.oracle.com · read 12 Oct 2026
- Credential storage
- Taleo Connect Client encrypts locally stored integration user passwords with AES using a 128-bit key.docs.oracle.com · read 12 Oct 2026
- Devices
- Oracle describes Taleo experiences for desktop, tablet, and mobile devices.oracle.com · read 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.oracle.com · read 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.docs.oracle.com · read 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.docs.oracle.com · read 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.docs.oracle.com · read 12 Oct 2026
- Interview scheduling
- Yesoracle.com · read 20 Sep 2026
- Job board distribution
- Yesoracle.com · read 20 Sep 2026
- Partner ecosystem
- Oracle says Taleo has more than 200 certified partner offerings and integrations with LinkedIn.oracle.com · read 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.oracle.com · read 12 Oct 2026
- Purpose
- Oracle Taleo provides tools for sourcing, recruiting, and onboarding candidates.oracle.com · read 12 Oct 2026
