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Hospital goes live with on-line recruitment solution

7 Feb 2007

Paper-based hospital recruitment process replaced with automated system
  • Efficiency-driven initiative to transform the recruitment process
  • Significant time saving by hospital staff  
Wokingham, Berkshire February 7, 2007 - Sequena, the UK based business transformation company announced today that Mid Staffordshire General Hospitals NHS Trust has gone live with Sequena's on-line recruitment solution for NHS hospitals.
 
The Trust operates and manages the two hospitals in Mid Staffordshire – Staffordshire General Hospital and Cannock Chase Hospital. The Trust is one of the largest employers in the region, with 2,500 staff. From these two sites, the Trust provides a wide range of healthcare services – both medical and surgical – for the people of Stafford, Cannock, Rugeley and surrounding areas.

Sequena’s LASER programme - ‘Lean Approach to Service Evaluation and Re-engineering’ - was implemented at the Trust to transform their recruitment process which included automating the process with an on-line, real-time recruitment management system. 
 
Mid Staffs recruitment process was re-designed and automated by Sequena using Sequena's unique process transformation methodology and Taleo's e-recruitment solution, Taleo Business Edition. This solution provides the following:  
  • significant cost savings
  • faster recruitment process
  • reduction in time taken by hiring managers
  • improved candidate quality
  • management information and reporting
"Mid Staffs paper-based recruitment process has been totally automated with our on-line system." said William Fell, Managing Director of Sequena. "We are absolutely delighted. The initial results since the December go-live have exceeded everyone's expectations. Effective recruitment and selection of staff is crucial to the successful functioning of every NHS Trust, our solution is unique and ensures this happens in the most efficient way".

About Sequena
Sequena are business process experts providing process solutions through software and services for the analysis and renewal of business processes to improve efficiency, increase productivity, optimise resources and enable better service delivery. The results are lower costs, increased profit and improved customer interactions. For more information please visit: www.sequena.com
 
About Taleo
Taleo (NASDAQ: TLEO) delivers on demand talent management solutions that enable organisations of all sizes, around the world, to assess, acquire, develop, and align their workforce for improved business performance.  More than 720 organizations use Taleo to recruit and retain top talent with 750,000 users processing 50 million candidates from 100 countries. Requiring no capital investment, software as a service and on demand delivery offer 99.9% availability and 100% accountability. For more information please visit: www.taleo.com