Helping Warwickshire Police and West Mercia Police recruit effectively.

Challenge

98% of applications now received online

90 days – Average time to hire reduced by 90 days

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.

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.

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