You'll Be in Great Company
What does it take to be a Recruiting Excellence Award winner? Beyond just best practices, it takes guts and creativity — which the following past award winners have demonstrated in their efforts:
DaVita cut vacancy time down from 63 to 45 days. Its excellent recruiting strategy and approach has resulted in an amazingly low 3.8% vacancy rate among the nursing staff. The leading kidney dialysis provider instituted a number of recruiting practices (including aggressive direct sourcing) that were unusual for the conservative healthcare industry, practices it believes will ultimately save lives.
After realizing that its employees were unaware of the potential career opportunities available with the company, Starbucks built a next-generation Intranet for employees to learn how they can develop and move up within the organization.
AmTrust Bank achieved eye-popping results with its employee referral program. In 2005, 28% of hires came from referrals. In 2008, 75% did.
Wipro, an Indian company, faced a candidate's market for senior leadership talent, and launched a Six Sigma initiative designed to shorten the firm's hiring-process.
Award-winner Federated Department Stores built the corporate careers site Retailology, bringing together several brands in its near-empire of retailing into one destination.
The kings of college hiring, Enterprise Rent-A-Car, have branded what could have otherwise been perceived as boring behind-the-counter rental-car jobs into great opportunities for entrepreneurial careers.
The healthcare field changed and so did PacifiCare Health Systems. It changed its business model as government regulations changed, and from that business model came the need for a new type of more competitive workforce. It succeeded in the transition.
FirstMerit Bank's guerilla recruiting practices have become the envy of many companies twice its size.
Whirlpool redesigned its university recruiting program to ensure a consistent pipeline of mid-level management talent.
The talent supply chain at Valero Energy is one of the the most business-minded approaches to recruiting and workforce planning, and catapulted the Valero recruiting function from obscurity to the envy of many workforce-planning and recruiting leaders.
Does your recruiting department have what it takes to join this elite group? Submit an application and find out.