Oracle Customer Success—Acciona

Acciona Boosts International Growth by Managing Thousands of Job Applications for Postings in More Than 30 Countries

Oracle Talent Acquisition Cloud enables us to recruit more and better candidates worldwide by providing a user-friendly interface to candidates and broader information to our HR teams, including candidates’ social footprints. Further, it enables our HR teams to be more productive and improves recruitment process efficiency and effectiveness.

— Gerardo Lara, Global Director, Recruitment and Training, Acciona

Acciona is a leading infrastructure provider in Spain for renewable-energy, water, and services. Since 2008 it has invested heavily in diversifying its business and growing internationally—with offices in more than 30 countries. This global pioneer in development and sustainability delivers projects with minimal environmental impact.

In parallel, Acciona focuses on a strategy of sustainable human resources (HR). The company emphasizes quality talent detection, recruitment, training, satisfaction, and internationalization, and has won multiple awards in recent years for its human capital management.

Business Challenge

Replace outdated, locally focused recruitment software with a comprehensive, user-friendly, and social-network-connected platform to support the company’s global growth in infrastructure, renewable energy, water, and services
Provide internal and external candidates, including engineers, project managers, lawyers, accountants, and IT professionals, among others—ranging from recent graduates to experienced executives—with opportunities across the company’s offices in more than 30 countries, boosting Acciona’s position as a top destination for job candidates
Implement a single, automated, companywide database and centralized recruitment software to enable HR staff to be more productive, effective, and efficient, supporting the company’s ability to recruit and retain top talent, worldwide

Results

Implemented Oracle Talent Acquisition Cloud to manage more than 5,000 incoming applications each month, worldwide, enabling the company to recruit, retain, and mobilize top talent across its offices in more than 30 countries to support its global growth in infrastructure, renewable energy, water, and services by automatically tailoring candidate reviews and identifying top candidates for interviews
Reduced recruitment time and costs by 25% and 30%, respectively, by implementing a user-friendly back-end that is accessible from any Acciona office—eliminating paperwork and facilitating communications with candidates, enabling HR staff to be more productive, efficient, and effective by reducing paperwork and automatically flagging the best candidates for interviews

Integrated social network profiles, such as LinkedIn, to candidates’ applications—enabling the company to view connections, publications, and each candidate’s influence in networking to better select the best-suited candidates
Implemented a global database for more than 60,000 applications received each year, improving recruitment quality by enabling Acciona HR staff, worldwide, to search, access, and track candidates, from recent graduates to experienced executives, including engineers, project managers, lawyers, accountants, and IT professionals
Deployed a user-friendly interface, providing support in multiple languages and guiding applicants step-by-step, increasing the application completion rate from 70% to more than 95%, providing the company with more internal and external candidates to evaluate and include in its database
Established continuous contact with candidates from the time they express interest in Acciona through subscriptions and bidirectional communication tools, such as blogs, forums, and job alerts—as well as more than 15,000 personalized notifications each month to candidates active in recruitment processes—enabling the company to enhance its reputation as a top employment destination
Achieved full adoption of Oracle Talent Acquisition Cloud among all HR staff worldwide in only one month, enabling the company to quickly become more efficient and effective in recruiting external talent and retaining existing talent

Why They Chose Oracle

To replace its outdated recruitment platform, Acciona considered different solutions. However, Oracle Talent Acquisition Cloud provided social-network integration, better analytical functions, and a more user-friendly front- and back-end, encouraging and enabling more candidates to participate and HR staff to be more productive, effective, and efficient by reducing paperwork and automatically providing comprehensive candidate reviews that propel top candidates to the interview stage.

Oracle Talent Acquisition Cloud responds to our corporate objective to be a destination of choice for candidates. It has supported our international growth by enabling us to recruit, train, and retain the best talent worldwide.

— Gerardo Lara, Global Director, Recruitment and Training, Acciona

Execution

Oracle Consulting tailored Oracle Talent Acquisition Cloud to Acciona’s needs through careful analysis and planning to ensure the solution could be deployed quickly and correctly. Oracle Consulting configured it for Acciona, deployed it, and made it operational in an aggressive timeline of just three months. Oracle Consulting also assisted in training HR staff to use the platform.

About Acciona

Headquarters

Madrid, Spain

Employees

34,000

Annual Revenue

Over $5 Billion

Acciona

Oracle Solutions Used

Oracle Consulting

Human Capital Management (HCM) Cloud

Published: Nov 04, 2014