Following a complete market review, adidas confirms its choice of
Jobpartners’ ActiveRecruiter solution to help standardise its global recruitment
processes and cut recruitment costs
a European leader in people and talent management solutions, has announced that
its ActiveRecruiter e-recruitment solution is to be deployed by adidas Group
across 100 locations worldwide by the end of 2010, following adidas’ decision to
extend its existing relationship with Jobpartners. The implementation of ActiveRecruiter will
help standardise recruitment processes across the company’s portfolio of brands
– adidas, Taylor Made and Reebok – and provide it with the ability to support
the 40+ languages spoken in the markets it operates in, thereby giving the
company a more integrated global recruitment
strategy.
adidas Group
currently employs more then 40,000 employees worldwide. Previously, the company
did not have a consistent structure in place to support internal or external
recruitment and share talent globally.
ActiveRecruiter has reduced the administrative burden on adidas’ HR
teams, and through improved reporting the company is now able to turn its
attention to building talent pools and promoting internal mobility. By being able to share global vacancies
internally adidas has now been able to retain key talent who may have otherwise
moved on elsewhere. adidas has also achieved significant cost savings almost
immediately by completely eradicating paying headhunter fees in the regions
where the solution has been deployed to date.
“In the past we
relied heavily on headhunters to find and acquire talent, which led to a
considerable amount of our recruitment budget being spent on headhunter fees,”
said Steve Bonomo, Global Head of Group recruiting at adidas. “With this in
mind, we made the decision to bring our recruitment back in-house with the aim
of reducing our annual recruitment spend and improving our process as a whole.
Jobpartners showed an unrivalled understanding of the needs of large,
multinational organisations and provided a solution that met our complex
recruitment needs.”
ActiveRecruiter is a
highly-configurable and comprehensive platform that enables HR departments to
manage the employment process through all stages of recruitment, from the
definition of a position, to hiring a candidate, through to improving internal
mobility. ActiveRecruiter is currently being used in 45 locations worldwide by
adidas and the company is planning to roll out the latest version of
ActiveRecruiter to all 100 locations by the end of 2010.
“We are delighted to
be continuing to work with adidas. The
company has shown itself to be an innovator when it comes to global recruitment
and ActiveRecruiter plays a key role in its strategy. For large global organisations today, it is
critical that they have an easy-to-manage and customisable e-recruitment
platform so that they can attract the best talent and reduce their time to hire
in what is an extremely competitive market” commented Patrice Barbedette,
Founder and COO at Jobpartners.
