Hays Reduces Time to Create and Publish Online Recruitment Information from Days to Minutes
 
 

Hays Reduces Time to Create and Publish Online Recruitment Information from Days to Minutes

  • Oracle Customer:  Hays plc
    Location:  London, United Kingdom
    Industry:  Professional Services
    Employees:  7,086
    Annual Revenue:  $500 Million to $1 Billion

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Hays plc is a global recruitment group with 257 offices in 30 countries worldwide. It is the market leader in the United Kingdom and Australia, and one of the leaders in Continental Europe. Hays works with clients and candidates in 17 industry sectors to fill 50,000 permanent jobs and 180,000 temporary jobs each year. The company cites its deep specialization in individual vertical sectors as the source of its competitive advantage.

 
 

 
 

Challenges

  • Improve responsiveness to the recruitment market by replacing a rigid, outdated Web content entry system with a modern, flexible content management system requiring no technical or HTML skills
  • Enable business users in 27 countries to upload useful,  engaging content to their local Hays Web site to cater to candidates who now primarily search for job information online
  • Provide the ability to quickly create new Web pages and client microsites to support events, targeted recruitment exercises, and spikes in demand
  • Reduce IT costs by removing the need for large IT teams to create and upload content on behalf of business users
  • Improve marketing capabilities by capturing profile information for the hundreds of thousands of job candidates that visit Hays Web sites each year

Solutions

Oracle Product and Services

  • Oracle Universal Content Management
  • Worked with Oracle Partners Proventeq and infoMENTUM to implement Oracle WebCenter Suite and Oracle Universal Content Management to enable business users in 27 countries to create and post Web content quickly and easily
  • Migrated users and content smoothly, thanks to Proventeq
  • Increased business agility by enabling users to update content instantly, rather than wait days for IT to make required changes
  • Boosted customer service by reducing the time it takes to build a branded recruitment microsite for a client from weeks to days
  • Optimized search engine rankings by enabling business users to specify page titles, URLs, and metadata for each new page
  • Achieved rapid and flexible integration with back-end systems and third-party Web services, including 450 external job boards

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