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The Big Issue’s new recruitment portal will lead to stress free, faster, cost-effective quality hires
The Big Issue, one of the UK’s leading social businesses, has for the past twenty years offered homeless and vulnerably housed people the opportunity to earn a legitimate income.
The organisation currently supports over 2900 homeless and vulnerably housed people across the country. The magazine is read by over 670,000 people every week throughout the UK* and is also an international entity, having lent its trademark to social entrepreneurs throughout the world. A founding member of the International Network of Streetpapers which represents the interests of over 80 similar social businesses in 37 countries.
A need to automate recruitment to relieve the HR team from manual processes and CV’S clogging up the email system was identified and MyPeopleBiz was chosen as the provider because of its technology, ease of use and experience of working with other charities such as Teenage Cancer Trust, Private Equity foundation and London Music Masters.
The new portal is aimed at further enhancing the Big Issue brand, boosting candidate attraction and strengthening relationships with the Big Issue candidate supply channels.
Administrative hassle is reduced due to the management of candidate information from one place. The portal is accessible anytime and anyplace, reinforcing connectivity with key stakeholders.
Charlene Kinsella , Group HR Administrator at The Big issue said: “We are delighted with our new system; the implementation has been really easy and extremely quick”.
Frank Varela , CEO at MyPeopleBiz commented: “We are really pleased to have been given the opportunity of working with the Big Issue and in a small way to help contribute to such a good cause. The war for talent is not equal because larger employers are able to invest heavily in recruitment automation in comparison to their smaller competitors and in particular to the charity sector. This leads to an unfair advantage in talent acquisition and we are aiming to make fantastic, easy to use, affordable technology available to organisations like the Big Issue”.
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Editor’s Note
MyPeopleBiz.com
Founded in 2009 by leading head hunter and recruitment expert Frank Varela, MyPeopleBiz is a London based recruitment technology company providing a recruitment platform on a saas model (software as a service) to small to mid-size employers. The software includes a bespoke recruitment portal, as well as a fully integrated, customisable career site to plug into the employers corporate website. Implementation is easy, extremely quick and hassle free.
Automating recruitment with a MyPeopleBiz recruitment portal leads to stress free, faster, cost-effective and better quality hires and the return on investment is recouped within year one.
The portals are used by leading retailers such as Jessop’s and Thornton’s, high profile media companies such as Kantar Media (part of WPP) food companies such as Hain Daniels Group and charities such as Teenage Cancer Trust, Private Equity Foundation and London Music Masters.
Contact: Frank Varela
Tel: 0203 176 3737
Email: frank.varela@mypeoplebiz.com
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‘Employers are certainly seeing the benefits’ –
Jessops the UK’s premier photographic retailer launches its new Recruitment Portal
Jessops the highly respected high street retailer with over 200 stores has partnered with recruitment platform MyPeopleBiz, to develop its new recruitment portal. The partnership is aimed at further improving the Jessops employer brand as well as improving the recruitment function and managing the overall cost.
The relationship between the two companies began back in September 2010 when MyPeopleBiz started working with Jessop’s, assisting them with their recruitment strategy and providing additional resource to HR during a recruitment drive to recruit new Store Managers.
Jessop’s attract a considerable amount of applications to vacancies advertised and needed a way to manage these effectively. To reflect these specifications MyPeopleBiz have developed a fully bespoke recruitment portal that is accessible through the Jessops corporate site and will benefit from the latest functionality including parsing technology that processes text i.e. in a candidates CV and extracts required information for easier CV search and registration.
Jessops will now be able to use their new recruitment portal to manage all their requirements from one place, attracting direct candidates, talent pooling, creating talent databases and referral schemes to tap into the growth of social media and additionally managing all their agency suppliers.
Parker Crockford at MyPeopleBiz said “Jessops has already experienced the benefits of having its own portal and the support MyPeopleBiz can provide as and when they require additional resource.” The new functionality will allow Jessops to capture thousands of candidate details currently from different places, into their own searchable talent database which will mean that they can recruit from their talent pool without incurring any additional costs.
UK charity Teenage Cancer Trust has launched a new recruitment portal powered by MyPeopleBiz to manage its entire recruitment process.
The Teenage Cancer Trust (http://www.teenagecancertrust.org/) is to manage their recruitment from one location, greatly reducing the time spent on administration and improving the efficiency of the hiring process.
Sandra Cotty, Human Resources at TCT said “As a charity we continually seek to make the most effective use of our resources and implementing an efficient recruitment management system which helps us to make savings on recruitment cost is a great for us. We are delighted to be working with MyPeopleBiz and greatly value their commitment to the not for profit sector.”
David McGlashan, Charity Relationship Manager at MyPeopleBiz: “We are extremely excited to be working with Teenage Cancer Trust, and hope to build a long lasting partnership with them. Bespoke recruitment portals are an excellent fit for not-for-profits, reducing the high costs typically related to recruitment and reducing the administrative burden on HR teams.”
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