EPLOY® POWERS THE NEXT GENERATION OF RECRUITMENT

EPLOY® POWERS THE NEXT GENERATION OF RECRUITMENT

Cumbria-based GEN II is the largest training provider to the nuclear industry and has been delivering Apprenticeship training for over a decade. The company currently trains 600 apprentices; however the programmes have become increasingly popular and for the number of opportunities on offer there are a much higher number of applicants. 

To manage this demand, GEN II completely changed its recruitment application process for the 2011 cohort and in conjunction with Eploy® created a new Online Recruitment Portal.  The Portal became the only way for an applicant to apply for an Apprenticeship. 

Chris Bogh, Technical Director of Eploy® says; “Unlike more traditional recruitment practices, the selection of individuals for apprenticeships is a little different and no less challenging.  For Gen II, they needed to process a high number of applicants within a short timeframe in an efficient and fair manner.

The inherent time saving features and enhanced system capabilities of Eploy®’s solution allowed the management of the year’s selection process to be carried out efficiently in a collaborative, transparent manner.”

Eploy® also customised elements of the web-based system to enable GEN II to overcome the challenges of co-ordinating online and offline activities when arranging appointments or coordinating assessment centre openings.  Chris said: “We added an interactive tool for setting up appointment slots at local assessment centres and for interviews, which the candidate could confirm online.”  The company also used a location finder to offer access to available schemes.

A multitude of reporting features to monitor equal opportunities policies such as ethnic diversity, or to evaluate the success of advertising channels were also provided as standard.

As a Grade One (“Outstanding”) work based learning training provider having recently been assessed by Ofsted, Heidi Clements, HR Manager at GEN II said; “Finding the best candidates for apprenticeship schemes is a very important aspect of our business so managing the capture and flow of information to allow effective decision making is vital.  So far we found that Eploy®’s solution offers GEN II the versatility we need to build accurate candidate profiles from multiple data sources and, they have delivered this on a feature-rich, easy to use system.  Eploy® was up and running quickly with excellent customer support from day one.”

Eploy®’s single applicant tracking and recruitment software system enables recruiters to have one core feature-rich system that can be used to manage all recruitment workflow channels – such as standard and executive recruitment, high volume graduate, apprenticeship and seasonal recruitment campaigns - to managing all the complexities involved with hiring temps, i.e. payroll, accounts, timesheet management, recruitment and HR.