Gazprom Marketing and Trading energises its talent acquisition process with Lumesse

Gazprom Marketing and Trading (GM&T), a leading global energy marketing and trading company, has adopted Lumesse TalentLink to help expand its global workforce and attract high quality, specialist talent. GM&T, which last year recruited for 220 unique roles, says the adoption of the Lumesse solution will help streamline its hiring process, monitor the effectiveness of its recruitment partners and advertising activities, and support future growth.

The implementation of Lumesse TalentLink has also enabled GM&T to enhance the candidate experience. Having a centralised database of applications gives the resourcing team greater visibility of potential recruits and improves candidate communication throughout the recruitment process.

Alistair Milnes, Head of Resourcing at GM&T, comments: “Compared to many of our competitors we’re hiring rapidly in all areas of the business. We have huge ambitions to grow so it’s important that we have the recruitment infrastructure and solid employer brand in place to enable us to identify and recruit the best possible talent in our market for future success.”

Lumesse TalentLink is also being used to help GM&T build future talent pools. Not only does the company receive a high number of speculative applications, its search for candidates with niche technical skills means keeping track of talent for future positions. Last year GM&T processed 4,500 graduate applications through the talent acquisition solution and it aims to increase this figure in 2012.

Cat Fawcett, Global Resourcing Partner comments: “We’ve reduced the number of agencies used by our resourcing team, so we need to make sure the ones we’ve chosen are doing the best job possible - the Lumesse solution enables us to do this. We also have substantially increased the range and quality of information we can give to managers and delivered better applicant tracking, which makes our lives much easier – our previous paper-based processes were very time and labour intensive.”

As part of the rollout Lumesse TalentLink is being fully integrated with GM&T’s existing HR and financial systems.

Matthew Parker, CEO, Lumesse comments: “It’s fantastic to see successful global companies, such as Gazprom Marketing and Trading, using HR technology to support a broader corporate growth strategy. We’re delighted to be supporting GM&T with the project as we demonstrate our ability to deliver effective, high-value solutions to international companies with a global footprint.”