Utility Bidder

Attracting quality candidates is one of the biggest challenges in recruitment, and especially for Utility Bidder, who operated in the competitive energy space in the UK market.

On average, it was taking Utillity Bidder over 1 month to fill a job and the HR team was under a lot of pressure to fill a number of business-critical roles which they’d been advertising for weeks.

A lack of a central hiring information hub and visibility, meant that Utility Bidder were loosing information throughout the process and faced the typical problems of candidates not turning up to interviews, lost hiring manager time to administration, inaccuracies in reporting, lengthy hiring manager review times and rising recruitment costs.

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Through using the Occupop system, Utility Bidder was able to take control of their recruitment process. Recruitment adverts were created easily within the Occupop system within a couple of clicks, and were then spread across multiple job boards, cutting down the admin associated with advertising job vacancies.  Within 6 months, Utility Bidder reduced their recruitment costs by 60% and were filling roles with their own talent pipeline.

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Utility Bidder used the out-of-the-box hiring reports within Occupop and were now able to track hiring successes in real time, anytime. Straightway, Utility Bidder reduced their report production times from 2 days to 5 minutes.

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Furthermore through streamlined processes and better candidate management flows, interview no show rate reduced by 86%, there was a 75% increase in hiring manager review time and time to hire increased from 1 month to 15 days.

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