Pictured above: (l-r) Adrian Hobbs from FlexPlus with Barry
Dow from Hammonds Furniture
The UK's leading fitted-bedroom company is pioneering an online
recruitment software programme to advertise its vacancies
nationally within a matter of minutes.
Hammonds Furniture, which employs around 1,000 people nationwide
including 450 staff at two sites in Hinckley, has been working with
FlexPlus to develop an innovative online toolkit.
The cutting-edge technology allows Hammonds - and other FlexPlus
clients - to manage applicants' responses to their online
vacancies, post multi vacancies on a number of websites extremely
quickly and integrate the system into its own website.
Barry Dow, Head of Human Resources at Hammonds Furniture, said
the system had been in operation for three months at its busiest
time of the year for recruitment in the lead-up to Christmas.
"We wanted a system which was fully integrated, consistent,
cost-effective and met the requirements of our business which has
to react quickly when advertising vacancies," he said.
"We have placed over 100 adverts in the last three months for a
wide range of jobs such as production operatives, self-employed
designers and sales staff all over the country. The new system
makes the whole process more joined up from the instant placing of
vacancies on major job boards to the increased speed in which we
can deal with responses electronically."
Barry said a one-year deal with FlexPlus in Wheatfield Way had
been agreed and he was confident that if the initial results were
anything to go by he would be looking for a long-term partnership
with FlexPlus.
"Adrian Hobbs and his team have been absolutely fantastic with
the support we have been given," he added. "I believe that it will
continue to support our resourcing requirements and processes."
Adrian Hobbs, Managing Director of FlexPlus in Wheatfield Way,
Hinckley, said the system allowed HR departments to view all the
applications from a variety of sources in one place.
"We believe this is the first total online recruitment package
of its kind in the UK with scope to be integrated into a client's
own website and we are really excited with the early feedback we
have received," he said.
"Talking to Barry and his team allowed us to adapt the programme
which we have been working on for the last two years from an
employer's perspective.
"It reduces the cost of advertising vacancies substantially as
well as making the whole recruitment process less time consuming
which is a major plus for busy HR departments."