The Big Issue, one of the UK’s leading social businesses, has for the past twenty years offered homeless and vulnerably housed people the opportunity to earn a legitimate income.
The organisation currently supports over 2900 homeless and vulnerably housed people across the country. The magazine is read by over 670,000 people every week throughout the UK* and is also an international entity, having lent its trademark to social entrepreneurs throughout the world. A founding member of the International Network of Streetpapers which represents the interests of over 80 similar social businesses in 37 countries.
A need to automate recruitment to relieve the HR team from manual processes and CV’S clogging up the email system was identified and MyPeopleBiz was chosen as the provider because of its technology, ease of use and experience of working with other charities such as Teenage Cancer Trust, Private Equity foundation and London Music Masters.
The new portal is aimed at further enhancing the Big Issue brand, boosting candidate attraction and strengthening relationships with the Big Issue candidate supply channels.
Administrative hassle is reduced due to the management of candidate information from one place. The portal is accessible anytime and anyplace, reinforcing connectivity with key stakeholders.
Charlene Kinsella, head of HR at The Big issue said: “We are delighted with our new system; the implementation has been really easy and extremely quick”.
Frank Varela, CEO at MyPeopleBiz commented: “We are really pleased to have been given the opportunity of working with the Big Issue and in a small way to help contribute to such a good cause. The war for talent is not equal because larger employers are able to invest heavily in recruitment automation in comparison to their smaller competitors and in particular to the charity sector. This leads to an unfair advantage in talent acquisition and we are aiming to make fantastic, easy to use, affordable technology available to organisations like the Big Issue”.
