Enfield Council Chooses Monster to Reduce Recruitment Costs

Monster.co.uk has been selected by Enfield Council, London to provide recruitment services that have reduced average recruiting time by 26 weeks. Monster beat stiff competition from other online recruitment companies enabling the council to also reduce their recruitment budget from 1million to 363,000 per year allowing them to focus more resources on providing services to the 280,000 residents in Enfield.

The decision to use online recruitment was driven by a need to compete with local private sector companies to recruit top talent and dedicated staff. Enfield Council were also keen to reduce the time and budget spent on recruitment and decided that moving to an online process would be the best solution.

My main priority has been to move the recruitment process on to the internet wherever possible, said Adrian Kerr, Assistant Head of HR-Recruitment at Enfield Council. Too much bureaucracy and paper form-filling is costly, time-consuming, bad for the environment and puts people off applying for jobs in the first place.

Using Monster.co.uk, job advertisements online were made accessible to the diverse range of applicants in the area through the council's free internet access in libraries and information centres. Monster's advanced candidate search techniques such as geographical targeting supported the requirement to reduce time spent finding suitable local candidates. Enfield Council also used Monster's CV database allowing them to enter specific search criteria and target candidates with the right background and experience within seconds.

The public sector faces significant pressure to focus time and budgetary resources on providing the very best services,î commented Rob Brouwer, CEO, Monster UK and Ireland. ìAs a result, time saved using online recruitment to find the ideal candidate can be channelled back into supporting the local community. We are pleased that our offering can enable local authorities such as Enfield Council to see the benefits gained by transferring their recruiting process online.

For further information about Enfield Council using Monster.co.uk, please request a copy of the case study.