Case Study
Helping Warwickshire Police and West Mercia Police recruit effectively.
Challenge: Warwickshire Police and West Mercia Police Authorities were unified by a strategic alliance in June 2015 to jointly deliver all policing services across both force areas. The strategic alliance sought to enable both forces to meet the challenge of reducing policing budgets and provide greater operational and organisational resilience. For recruitment, the force wanted to achieve a streamlining and overall improvement to the entire recruiting process, from the initial advert to the successful applicant’s start date. Warwickshire Police operated in a strategic alliance with West Mercia Police from 2012-2020, with many services delivered jointly across each policing area.
Industry
Police
Main challenges
Reducing policing budgets and provide greater operational and organizational resilience
Key benefit
98% of applications now received online
Warwickshire Police and West Mercia Police wanted a new joint recruitment system that would help it to recruit the best people to join its organization.
Challenge
The strategic alliance sought to enable both forces to meet the challenge of reducing policing budgets and provide greater operational and organizational resilience. For recruitment, the force wanted to achieve a streamlining and overall improvement to the entire recruiting process, from the initial advert to the successful applicant’s start date.
“Since our ‘go-live’ date in November 2015, candidates have been asked about their experience with expressive results; 98% of applicants would encourage others to apply, 95% would apply again, and 98% rated the process as excellent, very good or good.”
Warwickshire Police and West Mercia Police needed a brand new system that would…
- Help it to recruit the best people to join its organization.
- Be robust as the recruitment process is often the first contact that potential employees have with the forces.
- Make the process run smoothly and create a good impression.
Why Oleeo and what was the implementation like?
The forces chose the Oleeo’s Intuitive Talent Acquisition for Police and used the technology to help reshape the recruitment process. Since then, a new recruitment approach has now been launched that streamlines applications all the way from attraction through to on-boarding.
Commended by the Association of Chief Police Officers, the Oleeo’s Intuitive Talent Acquisition for Police is used by over 60% of England and Wales’ forces and is the only solution available to use national application forms and make them configurable to the needs of regional recruitment teams to help ensure forces recruit to reflect the communities they serve.
“As with any new system, further improvements are being identified and addressed. We are looking forward to continuing our work with WCN to drive further improvements on how we can recruit the best talent to join our organization smoothly and efficiently”
Results
The benefits are starting to be felt across the organization, with reductions in several areas including:
- Reduction in overall costs to recruit
- Attracting a higher caliber of candidates
- Reduction in time to interviews
- Minimized administration duties
- Improved consistency of approach to hiring
of applications now received online
Average time to hire reduced by 90 days
The Future
By maintaining ownership and control of the recruitment processes themselves, the force can build a more manageable and accessible talent pool, which gives a critical competitive edge in the continuous search for new talent for our organization.
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