IT Director - Software House
The Brief
The client, a leading Software house supplying to Financial Services, had successfully won 2 major long term projects to globally supply their clients. The sudden increase in demand resulted in the need to increase the headcount within the UK Development Centre of Excellence by 11 heads, across Development, Support, and Testing.
The Challenge
To ensure that the process of recruiting multiple positions, within different specialities was managed effectively - whilst enabling the Client Management to be able to carry out their daily duties without distraction from a major recruitment drive. The entire process of search, interviewing, selection and integrating new staff into the company - all had to be completed within 7 weeks.
The Solution
Gravitas presented a ‘Recruitment Process Outsourcing' solution to the client, based upon creating an internal project team to assist the client. The team, consisting of a Recruitment Manager, 2 Senior Consultants and Resourcers, was initially specific tasked to research the relevant markets to identify where best the most desirable Talent could be drawn from.
The client posseses a strong team ethic within their organisation and required all new staff to be successfully integrated with relative ease. The project deadlines were tight, and new staff needed to be operational in their roles with almost immediately. Gravitas demonstrated to the client that the best way of achieving their brief would be to move existing teams from their competition. Therefore, bringing upon staff that knew each other well and were already playing to each other's strengths and weaknesses.
Once, relevant teams / profiles had been indentified our Client Services Manager daily worked on site with the client to ensure minimal impact was experienced, whilst still ensuring the tight timescale was met.
Through a series of early morning and evening review meetings, relevant profiles were selected and over three full days of Managed Interviews, 11 offers were made from only 24 interviews.
The Result
| Candidates telephone Screened | 500+ |
| Candidates met by Gravitas | 84 |
| Screened submitals to Client | 43 |
| Telephone Interviews by Client | 0 |
| Candidates interviews by Client | 24 |
| Offers made | 11 |
| Offers accepted | 10 |
The process, from receipt of the job description to the final acceptance, took nine working days.
The approach by Gravitas ensured that we were able to use our extensive network of candidates, Recruitment Methodologies and experience to identify and screen individuals. The successful candidates were all extensively ‘phoned interviewed', subsequently interviewed face to face where they were thoroughly briefed on the role prior to even being submitted to the client. Therefore, only the most relevant and committed candidates were presented to the client for the positions. Furthermore, the highly professional and tailored RPO solution ensured that all applicants possessed a strong belief that the experience of the process mirrored the company they were interviewing with - leading to an exceptional offer acceptance rate.
The Client's verdict
"Simply we were a nightmare client!! 2 new project teams - needed to be at desks in less than 2 months. Gravitas presented a solution that looked too good to be true. However, after a couple of meetings to explain exactly how they would achieve this - they demonstrated true commitment to the job and put in amount of significant effort to help us fill the vacancies. We have always had a pretty hit and miss relationship with most agencies - however, we developed a good working relationship with Gravitas - which we helped by initially working with their Director Jonathan Ellerbeck, this created a sturdy platform. We now consider Gravitas to be a valued partner - and feel confident in our ability to scale our business again - when the need arises'.
