With new technologies and products reaching the market every day, finding talent with the right technical experience is one of the biggest recruitment challenges confronting companies today. This challenge is compounded when the skill set is new to the marketplace, the number of hires needed is substantial, and the positions are located across facilities in multiple countries.

A retailer recently faced this situation when it launched the world's largest SAP implementation. The company required a large-scale recruitment initiative to build a technical team focused on successfully implementing the new SAP retail module across the U.S. and Mexico. They faced the additional challenge of ensuring candidate quality and fit was consistent across the U.S. and internationally. To accomplish this, the company needed to grow its qualified candidate pool and streamline the hiring process to meet an aggressive timeline and project scope without risking the quality of the hires.

HRworks and its client tailored a recruitment strategy that integrated HRworks' team of experienced recruiters into the client's existing internal structure, retained current recruitment practices, and incorporated HRworks' expertise and bilingual experience and capabilities where needed.

Recruiting a skill set that is in short supply but great demand creates a highly competitive recruitment environment, making a positive candidate experience during recruitment critical to the success of the project. To enhance this experience, HRworks implemented innovative tactics to generate excitement about the client and the SAP initiative, and to keep interested and qualified candidates warm during the process. Candidates received digital media messages featuring streaming video of the client's media coverage, including coverage about its SAP initiative to highlight its importance to overall business goals. HRworks created the video from the client's existing press coverage and built it into the recruitment process at no additional expense.

As the client's single point of contact, HRworks' Project Manager closely monitored the recruitment process and provided regular reports to the client on progress, competitive market challenges and recruitment opportunities. This constant monitoring and regular communication with the client allowed the team to strategically modify the recruitment process to effectively overcome recruitment or market challenges as they arose and maintain speed and precision throughout the project.

HRworks' precision recruitment process ensured that internal hiring managers were presented with top technical talent who were also a cultural fit. HRworks' Project Manager simplified the recruitment process for the client's hiring managers, allowing them to remain focused on the SAP implementation while keeping abreast of the recruitment's progress. HRworks successfully completed the initiative on time and the world's largest implementation of SAP software is now helping the client achieve its business objectives. The internal recruitment team continues to rely on HRworks to build their talent pipeline and keep them ahead in the difficult competition for talent.