Case Study
The Client
We worked with a high growth software start-up whose activities cover a range of sectors.
The Vacancy
New Graduates
The Challenges
This rapidly growing start-up needed to hire several graduates, but faced a series of challenges in the process. The line manager was extremely busy travelling globally to meet clients, so HR found it very difficult to get feedback on candidates. Interviews were also challenging to arrange due to the line manager’s schedule and workload. Strong candidates had previously been lost due to delayed CV feedback and interview requests.
The client needed candidates with both a degree-level education and good people skills. They needed to be credible and ready for client-facing work. Previous interviews had taken place via other recruiters that had immediately failed to be a good fit, thus wasting a lot of management time.
The Solution
Sigma worked with the client’s HR team to uncover specific issues as part of a recruitment review. We looked at the challenges listed above and suggested some process changes.
We changed the process to include a one-way-video interview. We also suggested a range of questions for the video interview that would be helpful for HR and the line managers involved, and we partnered with SparkHire to deliver a video interview solution to provide brief targeted candidate interviews.
The Results
The graduate talent was pre-screened by Sigma and suitable candidates were invited to complete the one-way-video interview. This sped up the process significantly because line managers did not need to meet with candidates who did not present well. They were able to review the interviews on their mobile phones from any location and worked with the HR team to rate the candidates using a star-based system built into the platform.
The need for a first interview was avoided, and candidates with high scores were invited straight to second interviews. Several offers of employment were made, and the candidates had a much better overall impression of the client due to the streamlined recruitment process.
Over the past 15 years, Sigma’s team has also placed a wide range of STEM graduates in aerospace, automotive, medical devices, semi-conductor engineering, food manufacturing, pharmaceuticals, packaging, heavy industry work, and electronics manufacturing.
About Sigma Recruitment – graduate recruitment agency
Since Sigma Recruitment opened for business back in 2005, we’ve developed an enviable reputation as one of the leading graduate recruitment agencies. We’ve recruited for a wide variety of companies, from Fortune 500 firms with sales in the hundreds of billions to niche high-tech start-ups and everything in between, across the United Kingdom including locations such as Cardiff, Swansea, Newport, Bristol, Birmingham, Cambridge, Gloucester, Leeds, Manchester, Oxford, Reading and Swindon.
If you’re looking to recruit graduates with engineering, technical, supply chain, procurement, logistics, management, scientific or STEM degrees then, Sigma Recruitment is ideally placed to help you find the elusive high calibre graduate talent you’re business needs. If you’re looking for a graduate recruiter, then please book a call with our founding director today! And we will show you why we are one of the leading graduate recruitment agencies in the UK.
