Situation

Our client, headquartered in Ohio for over 131 years, is the world’s leader in do-it-yourself lawn and garden consumer products, with a full range of products for professional horticulture as well.

Within Our client, we found that the Human Resources department was tasked with managing the entire lifecycle of recruiting and staffing. Among many priorities, HR was the single point of contact to fill over 100 positions locally. The costs associated with hiring were high, due to the fact that many hiring managers engaged outside vendors/firms to help identify talent. In utilizing multiple vendors, it was tremendously difficult to track basic measures and metrics, including; days to hire, costs to hire, offer percentages, acceptance percentages and quality of new hires.

Approach & Solution

Our approach was simple. Align dedicated recruiters to the HR team/Business Units on an "as needed" basis to manage the entire lifecycle of recruiting. Our focus; save costs, improve quality, implement process and measure results. We approached this engagement through piloting a 6 week project.

Client Benefit

The HR Team was able to maximize their time and their strengths in support of the business units. The Ray & Barney Recruiting Team was able to quickly implement a Recruiting Dashboard that created baseline measures and metrics associated to recruiting. The team also customized a "Staffing Strategy" per position to ensure that we were meeting the expectations of the each Hiring Manager. We defined and documented the entire lifecycle of recruiting, including systems, accountability and knowledge base. We were involved in the design and roll out of a new candidate tracking system. We implementation tools, including a Weighting Table designed to highlight the critical success factors of each role. We developed an on-line "survey tool' to gauge and measure the "quality" of new associates with 156 hiring managers. We saved our client thousands of dollars through eliminating unnecessary vendor fees. And, we scaled our resources based on the hiring demands of the organization.

Financial Impact / Return on Investment

Within the initial 6 weeks, we saved the organization over $250,000.

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