How Webrecruit helped the educational organisation streamline its processes and reduce its recruitment spend.
The Company
Wessex Education Shared Services (WESS) is a shared service company, wholly owned by, and operated on behalf of, education institutions based in Southern England.
The Challenge
We caught up with Lorraine Hunt, WESS’s HR Manager, who oversees recruitment for the shared service, as well as member colleges, Brockenhurst College and Bournemouth and Poole College.
Working within the education sector, Lorraine and her team were challenged with achieving true value for money whilst minimising cost.
WESS recruits for a wide range of teaching and non-teaching positions, covering all subjects, as well as numerous finance, HR, admin and IT roles for the shared service. With a national skills shortage across many areas, the team found it challenging to attract candidates who possessed particular skill sets.
Our most challenging positions to fill are often construction lecturer/assessor roles, as well as nursery positions. Particular skill sets are difficult to find and potential recruits are looking towards jobs within industry. In the past, senior roles within the colleges have been difficult to fill with limited recruitment sources.”
The Solution
Webrecruit partnered with WESS to provide a cost-effective online advertising solution that would give the organisation’s vacancies greater exposure.
By taking the time to understand WESS’s needs, Webrecruit was able to recommend the most suitable selection of online job boards that would generate the most relevant response to its vacancies. By purchasing job board advertising credits via Webrecruit, WESS was able to reduce its advertising costs significantly.
WESS was allocated with a dedicated account manager who was able to process vacancies quickly to ensure that they were being advertised as soon as possible, and make suggestions as to the most appropriate way in which to recruit or for how to improve the performance of each campaign.
The account management was my favourite aspect of the service. My account manager was absolutely superb – highly responsive and the service we have received has been second to none.”
The Results
Since partnering with WESS in 2014, Webrecruit has helped the organisation to recruit for just short of 500 vacancies.
Webrecruit really took the time to understand WESS and our needs; you’ve helped to reduce our time-to-hire and have provided an excellent, cost-effective advertising service.”
By using Webrecruit’s online recruitment advertising services, WESS has gone on to achieve:
- Reduced costs, due to competitive job board pricing
- A more streamlined recruitment process through effective account management
- Reduced time-to-hire through effective, targeted advertising
Final words
Would I recommend Webrecruit? Absolutely. You have helped us to centralise and streamline our recruitment process. The relationship we’ve built with Webrecruit has been invaluable.”
– Lorraine Hunt, HR Manager, WESS.
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