40 hires: 2 years

Martin Wigfield • May 31, 2024

40 hires: 2 years

Securing niche talent in highly competitive market places is hard.


Buck, A Gallagher company, decided they needed a competitive advantage when it came to attracting the best talent to join them.


They set us a very simple task, hire 40 high quality, experienced individuals in a niche market over a 2 year period.


Working alongside a newly recruited internal recruitment team, we partnered with Buck on their most difficult assignments (there was no low hanging fruit). By engaging us, we were able to dedicate the time they and the assignments needed to gear them for success. This involved:


Strategy: Understanding what the current strategy was and using our insights and data analytics to help them optimise their talent strategy


Search: We created a whole new suite of recruitment assets that bought to life their employee value proposition and used them to take an evidence based approach to applicant attraction.


Selection: Because we had been involved from the beginning, we knew the teams and their requirements inside out. It meant our vet was thorough and against the specific role requirements. This free's up interview time to be spent on in depth technical assessment as well as a two way 'fit' discussion. 


Onboarding: We worked closely with Buck and their new onboarding processes to ensure the candidate experience was a positive one. This included completing an aftercare discussion with all successful individuals at various stages throughout their first 6 months in the team.


As a result of recruiting through our talent subscription Buck went from not being able to attract the volumes they need to making the 40 hires in 18 months (not the 24 they had planned).


This facilitated their growth allowing them to go and secure more new business faster, driving forward the growth of the practice to new levels.


We caught up with UK Talent Acquisition Manager, Tom Martin to get his thoughts on Zatori and the talent subscription.

 

'Zatori are a true talent acquisition partner.


They always take time to understand us, the candidate experience has been great and the vast majority of the time they find us exactly what we need'.


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