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Success on a shoestring Nick Thompson, Resourcing Specialist The Thames Water Story May 2014

#FIRMday 15 May 2014 Nick Thompson, 'Success on a Shoe String - The Thames Water Story

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Nick Thompson, Resourcing Specialist at Thames Water plc will discuss how he and Thames Water have achieved “Success on a Shoestring” Innovation needn’t cost the earth but it must be essential. Find out how Thames Water reduced their cost per hire and time to hire by over 70% in a 4 year period.

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Success on a shoestring

Nick Thompson, Resourcing Specialist

The Thames Water StoryMay 2014

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“Once upon a time……”

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Cost per hire piggieCandidate experience piggie

Time to hire piggie

Meet the characters

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Candidate Experience

•An application process of over 11 minutes

•Applications only accepted through Internet Explorer

•Application black hole

•Long confusing recruitment process

•Blinded by science in adverts

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Cost per hire

•Over £4,000

•Agency usage of over 60%

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Time to hire

•Over 26 weeks to offer

•The add in a 4 week notice period

•Huge dependency on temps to cover gaps

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Where to start?

• Huge budget?

• Tackle it all at once?

• Start again?

• Give up?

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What we did

RPO12 week ruling

for temps

Revised attraction strategy

Volume campaigns

Assessment centres

Graduate & Apprentice recruitment

eLearning for managers Social media

Sonru Video Interviews

Application process

SHL interview report

Talent pools

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RPO12 week ruling

for temps

Revised attraction strategy

Volume campaigns

Assessment centres

Graduate & Apprentice recruitment

Where we started

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eLearning for managers

Social media

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Social media

Social media

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Social media

Sonru Video Interviews

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SHL interview report

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Application process

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Talent pools

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“Sounds expensive”

- Delegates at The FIRM Conference May 2014

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The Shoestring bit

It’s probably easier to say that there was little or no budget available for these projects.

What did we do?

RPO

12 week ruling for temps

Revised attraction strategy

Huge cost savings around the business

Even more savings around the business

Reduced job board spend, freeing up budget

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The Shoestring bit cont…

Time and cost savings in attraction

Savings in managers time around the business

Our little pot of gold, huge cost savings

Volume campaigns

Assessment centres

Graduate & Apprentice recruitment

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The Shoestring bit cont…

Improved candidate experience

Further reducing our job board spend

Our money behind the sofa

eLearning for managers

Social media

Sonru Video Interviews

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The Shoestring bit cont…

You cant put a price on candidate experience

Further reducing our job board spend

Our lottery win

SHL interview report

Application process

Talent pools

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The resultsThis is what you all want to know...........

All delivered for less than our budget last year

Candidate experience 98% positive

Cost per hire under £400

Time to hire 6 weeks

Agency usage of 2%

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Happily ever after

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Any questions?

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The next chapter hasn’t been written yet

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