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AGILE CUSTOM RECRUITMENT SOLUTIONS
Custom recruitment projects, especially where speed and volume are concerned are difficult – that’s why we love them. RPO solutions came and went because ultimately cost alone does not represent value. We have added agility to the model with 1st Source.
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Custom Recruitment: 1st Source
The Challenge
New airline needed 50 cabin crew and supervisors ready to start training in 4 weeks…over Christmas and weren’t resourced to pay recruitment fees
The Solution
Social media campaign including video, auto screening technology, and a simple but more detailed screening process filtered 2000 applicants into 250 Assessment Centre attendees (assessment centres run by HR), resulting in 50 new hires, on time, at a low fee per placement – take off.
The Challenge
Regionally based transport company, family owned had difficulty recruiting anyone other than transient drivers resulting in truck and trailer damage and high turnover.
The Solution
Lifestyle and family rewards based YouTube campaign along with online safety attitudes assessment resulted in most drivers’ partners being enthusiastic about life in a regional town, longer employment tenure and reduced vehicle damage when the safety questionnaire was used to screen.
The Challenge
Consumer electronics company required in-home service teams along Eastern Seaboard for in home installations that needed tech smarts and premium service attitudes. Project to be completed in 6 weeks and demanded 24 hires.
The Solution
High paced extensive screening and group interviews were supported by technical aptitude and values based assessments to assess the service attitude of technicians. Successful candidates commenced a customer service training course in which target criteria had to be met.
The Challenge
Client had just lost a high value technical manager and needed to replace from a direct competitor.
The Solution
Executive Search techniques were applied to a technical role. After discreet approaches, contact was made and positioning of the new role was based on industry research and data. This proved the relative business stability of the two competitors and the likely impact on sustainable employment.
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