TOTAL
The Challenge
Total decided to use eploy® for their graduate recruitment portal having looked at systems we had implemented for National Grid Transco and Eon.
One of Total's main concerns about choosing the right technology partner was that there was a very short lead time and the entire system would have to be developed and tested within a matter of weeks. The eploy® development team assured Total that this could be achieved and a project manager was assigned straight away to ensure the strict delivery time scale was kept.
The Solution
A temporary system was set up based on existing corporate recruitment systems we had implemented before but our in house web design team matched Total's corporate branding perfectly so their existing website design partners could link straight to eploy to enter their career portal.
Total began to evaluate this system in detail and identified several areas for development regarding the candidate registration process. The changes were made to the temporary system and the automation features of the system were discussed. For example, many automatic emails are sent to consultants and candidates to keep them informed of their progress so these were implemented into the graduate career portal.
The minimum entry criteria were then included for individual schemes etc. to ensure unsuitable candidates were automatically rejected and notifying them of the reasons during the registration process.
Several training days were arranged and one of eploy's technical experts remained on site to discuss the customisation of the actual recruitment system and additional tools and features that Total could take advantage of. During this further consultation stage, several management and activity reports were identified. The eploy® development team implemented these so they were instantly accessible to Total's recruitment consultants and management team.
The Result
The Total career portal has been running successfully over the past years and thousands of candidates have been processed efficiently. The automatic rejection of un-suitable candidates has saved many man-hours in administration and the ranking of suitable candidates has also proved to be a very useful feature.
Eploy is also used as a central tracking system for all parties involved with the recruitment process, e.g. recruitment consultants, managers and external assessors and eploy has enabled a much higher level of transparency between the individual teams.
Each year, previous year's candidates are archived into a separate system to avoid any confusion and a completely fresh recruitment system is set up including all of Total's additional reports, settings etc. Due to eploy's unique design, this can easily be achieved at minimum cost each year.
Visit TOTAL's eploy-powered website at www.totalgraduate.com.