Candidate Manager recruiting software case study - Avivia

Background
The Hibernian Group is one of Ireland's largest and most successful financial organisations, with activities spanning general insurance, risk management, pensions, life assurance, investment management and personal financial services.
As a part of the AVIVA Group, Hibernian is backed by one of the world's largest insurance organisations. AVIVA has operations in over fifty countries worldwide and funds under management of over €300 billion. An emphasis on providing competitive products and excellent service to meet customer needs remains the basic business philosophy. The company is committed to delivering security, quality and value.
Hibernian Insurance required an online recruitment system that could be customised to fit in with the company's structure and procedures, so that each of its recruiters could easily and quickly manage the recruitment process.
Mission : "Provide an innovative, cost effective and efficient recruitment management system"
Key requirements from a Recruitment software system
Main Objective
- To improve the recruitment process in terms of efficiency & effectiveness
- To reduce substantially the costs currently being incurred by recruiting directly
- To reduce the administration workload
- To enhance Hibernian's image as an attractive and modernised company to be employed by
Solution chosen : Candidate Manager HR Software
Candidate Manager is a company that provides a remarkable piece of software for HR professionals. This recruitment software radically reduces the amount of time and money that a company spends on the administration of the recruitment process
Results
(after Candidate Manager HR software Implementation):
- Efficiencies: Centralising the recruitment administrative function has allowed each Hiring Manager focus on key business deliverables.
- Reduction in Recruitment Cost : Controlling the use of recruitment mediums has reduced the dependency on more expensive means to recruitment.
- Return on Investment: Hibernian Insurance have achieved a 100% ROI (Return on investment) after 6 months using Candidate Manager recruitment software.
More specific Results after Candidate Manager implementation:

Within Hibernian Insurance, the HR Department are responsible for building 2 types of reports;
- Hiring Manager Report; which captures key information about a particular position the manager has ownership for, i.e. Total Applicants, Source of Applicants, Applicant Recruitment Summary (How many candidates reached different stages of the recruitment process), Source of Hire (therefore calculating the Cost per hire with ease)
- Directors Report; which captures all key information related to a specific recruitment campaign across a particular time period and/ or business unit. i.e Total Applicants, Total Source of Applicants, Total Applicant Recruitment Summary, Total Source of Hire etc.
After using Candidate Manager HR Software, Hibernian Insurance have reported a substantial saving in report building time. (See template below for approximate time savings )
| Traditionally | Through Candidate Manager | |
|---|---|---|
| Hiring Managers Report | 3 Hours | 2 Minutes |
| Directors Report (Depending size of campaign) | 1 Week | 2 Minutes |