East London NHS Foundation Trust has successfully implemented a complete end-to-end eRecruitment process – something relatively few organisations have come close to.
“With a drive for even greater efficiency, the Recruitment Team was challenged with having to do substantially more work with fewer staff.” Explains Gareth Griffiths, Head of Recruitment,
“I decided that the only feasible approach was to automate key processes throughout the recruitment life-cycle”. Previously, many activities were paper based and tracked with spreadsheets. On top of this, the NHS is fully committed to fair assessment of candidates, with an objective short-listing policy that needed to be incorporated into the solution.
He’s been successful in introducing self-service interview booking for candidates. Where some people doubted this could work in the Health Sector, Griffiths has demonstrated that this benefits candidates and interviewers alike. Not only this, he’s streamlined pre-employment checks and shown his team how to generate Offers and Contracts directly from the eArcu software service.
“It’s exceptional to see the rate of adoption by the Trust’s Hiring Managers, we’re impressed with how much they want to do themselves. “ Enthuses Andy Randall, CEO, eArcu. “Gareth and his team have done a great job in showing the benefits of eRecruitment and tempting the Managers to become fully engaged.”
