Applicant Tracking System for engineering companies

The UK Engineering sector continues to experience a shortfall in new entrants to the workplace and is acutely affected by candidate scarcity. That's why an Applicant Tracking System and Recruitment CRM, designed to help you recruit talent quickly and efficiently while building talent pools is vital to your hiring success.

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Key Features for engineering & industrial hiring

So whether you need name-blind applications, additional workflows, or support multiple brands or business functions, you’ll find Eploy to be the most adaptable talent acquisition technology that consistently delivers the results you demand.

Ensure Compliance

Maintaining High Compliance and Operational Standards

Right-to-Work Checking Integration ► Simplify legal employment checks
Multi-Level GDPR Consent Management ► Enhance candidate data protection
Audit Trail ► Offer clear accountability in hiring
Data Retention Policies ► Manage candidate data securely and responsibly
Compliance Document Management ► Organise key legal documents systematically

Eploy ensures that recruitment in the Engineering sector meets all compliance and efficiency standards, reducing risks and fostering a secure hiring environment.

Boost Candidate Attraction

Ensure a Steady Flow of Skilled Talent

Recruitment CRM ► Develop enduring relationships with potential candidates
Talent Pools & Skills Library ► Access a reservoir of ready-to-hire talent
Intelligent Job Alerts ► Keep candidates engaged with relevant opportunities
Email & SMS Marketing ► Actively communicate, reducing time-to-hire
Feedback Surveys ► Adapt and improve recruitment strategies

Eploy aids in creating sustainable talent pools for the Industrial sector, ensuring a consistent supply of qualified professionals, reducing hiring gaps.

Optimise Onboarding

Streamline Onboarding, Enhance New Hire Productivity

Customisable Onboarding Processes ► Tailor onboarding for diverse engineering roles
Electronic Signatures ► Accelerate documentation processing, shortening onboarding time
Compliance Document Management ► Ensure regulatory adherence, reducing compliance risks
Secure Data Collection ► Safeguard sensitive employee information
Self-service Candidate Portal ► Empower new hires for smoother onboarding

Eploy's onboarding solutions in Engineering and Industrial sectors reduce the time-to-productivity for new hires, significantly enhancing workforce effectiveness from the outset.

High-volume Recruitment

Efficiently Meet High-Volume Hiring Demands

Advanced Search & Filtering ► Quickly identify candidates with specific skills
Automated Email & SMS Marketing ► Increase candidate engagement and response rates
Job Posting and Distribution ► Expand reach, reducing time-to-fill for roles
Drag-and-Drop Pipelines ► Streamline candidate tracking, enhancing process efficiency
Configurable Hiring Workflows ► Adapt hiring steps for different roles, improving hiring speed

Eploy dramatically improves recruitment efficiency in the Engineering and Industrial sectors, leading to faster hiring cycles and filling critical roles more swiftly.

Candidate Assessment

Accurately Evaluate Candidates for Optimal Fit

Assessment Form Builder ► Develop bespoke assessments for precise evaluation
Scoring & Grading ► Objectify candidate assessment, improving selection quality
Video Interviewing ► Conduct in-depth remote assessments
Application Screening & Pre-screening ► Efficiently shortlist top candidates
Structured & Panel Reviewing ► Foster collaborative decision-making

With Eploy, candidate assessment in the Engineering sector becomes more precise, leading to higher quality hires and better job-role alignment.

Enhance Diversity & Inclusion

Cultivate an Inclusive Workforce Culture

Blind/Anonymised Shortlisting ► Implement fair selection by removing bias in candidate evaluations.
Configurable Application Workflows ► Tailor application processes to suit diverse candidate needs.
Diverse Talent Outreach ► Reach a broad spectrum of candidates through inclusive sourcing strategies.
Metrics and Reporting Insights ► Analyse recruitment trends and outcomes for continuous improvement.
Inclusive Recruitment Strategies ► Develop and apply methods that promote diversity in hiring.

Eploy aids engineering, industrial, and manufacturing sectors in building a diverse and inclusive workforce. Our ATS features blind shortlisting and comprehensive reporting, ensuring a fair and unbiased recruitment process that values diversity.

Overcome Talent Scarcity

Connect with Skilled Industry Professionals

Advanced Candidate Search ► Employ detailed search capabilities to locate top industry talent.
Strategic Sourcing Tools ► Utilise targeted tools for identifying and attracting potential candidates.
Robust Screening & Assessment ► Conduct thorough evaluations to ensure the suitability of candidates.
Direct Job Board Integrations ► Facilitate seamless posting to various job boards for increased visibility.
Build Talent Pools for the future ► Develop reservoirs of qualified candidates for upcoming opportunities.

Eploy tackles the challenge of scarce qualified candidates in engineering and manufacturing. Our ATS extends your reach, ensuring you connect with the skilled talent essential for industry success.

Transform Industry Perception

Changing Narratives in Engineering and Manufacturing

Gamified Employee Referrals ► Encourage active employee participation in the recruitment process through gamification.
Positive Branding Strategies ► Develop and implement strategies that positively shape your company's image.
Innovative Job Advertising ► Utilize creative and effective methods for job advertisement to attract talent.
Engaging Social Campaigns ► Leverage social media to run compelling recruitment campaigns.
Interactive Candidate Experiences ► Provide a dynamic and engaging experience for candidates during the recruitment process.

Change the perception of the engineering and manufacturing sectors with Eploy. Our innovative ATS features, like gamified employee referrals and engaging social campaigns, help showcase the industry as a dynamic and attractive career choice.

FAQs

Eploy integrates with HMRS, Accounts & Payroll systems as well as leading background screening & checking providers, to name a few!

With the Eploy API, you can connect the tools you use daily to our talent acquisition platform and deliver amazing experiences for everyone involved in the recruitment journey. Eploy's API enables customers and partners to build custom apps and enhancements to Eploy's Talent Acquisition platform.

We have a Partner Marketplace so you can extend your recruitment capability faster and smarter.

Yes, Eploy is used for many kinds of Engineering sector recruitment. And because we know each business is different, our features allow for an agile approach so you can flex and evolve your recruitment process. Whether you need name-blind applications, a multilingual solution, multiple workflows, or specific requirements on your careers site for multiple brands or business functions, we understand it's your recruitment process, so we can do things your way.

See how we have helped a number of our Engineering sector customers here.

Eploy supports a ''name blind'' recruitment process, which allows certain candidate information (name, gender, ethnicity etc.) to be removed from applications during candidate assessment. Ensuring a non-biased recruitment process. Eploy also has award winning recruitment analytics to measure your Diversity and Inclusion programme with real-time, secure data driven dashboards.

We solve the challenges of engineering & manufacturing recruitment

Recruitment in the Engineering & Manufacturing industry comes with unique challenges. These can be addressed by understanding the most effective candidate sourcing channels for the sector and anticipating potential changes in hiring levels throughout the year. Eploy helps recruiters in the Engineering & Manufacturing industry tackle these challenges and streamline their recruitment processes to achieve the results they need.

Which channels do engineering sector recruiters use for sourcing candidates?

The Engineering sector rely heavily on Career Sites (94%) and Professional Social Networks (88%) to fill vacancies with the right candidates. We see a slight increase in the use of engineering applicant tracking system/CRM & Talent Pools from 50% last year to 54% in the latest data within the sector. With one of the main sector challenges being candidate scarcity, the importance of providing good candidate experience and correctly managing engineering applicants is greater than ever.

Source: 2024 UK Candidate Attraction Survey

Which candidate sourcing channels work best in Engineering?

When we look at how Engineering recruiters are succeeding with talent attraction, the Sourcing Quadrant shares an interesting picture. Career sites, like last year, fall short in attracting the required quality and quantity of candidates, despite its significant use. Meanwhile, engineering ATS/CRM/Talent Pools, Professional Social Networks and Agencies deliver the most successful mix of candidates. Also worthy of a mention is that usage of employee referrals (73%) has decreased (81%, 2023) while still remaining one of the top-performing sourcing channels, attracting the highest quality of candidates.

Source: 2024 UK Candidate Attraction Report

How will levels of hiring in the engineering sector change in next 12 months?

In the Engineering sector, hiring levels are expected to increase by 37% of the respondents and several channels could aid further to fill future vacancies.

Unfortunately, recruitment marketing budgets don’t appear to be keeping up. 59% of the survey respondents from this sector anticipate that recruitment marketing budgets will stay the same and 21% are expecting a decrease.

Measuring and monitoring, in real time, every aspect of your hiring process will become of greater importance in order to successfully source high-quality candidates. With Eploy’s engineering applicant tracking system, you get complete recruitment analytics built in to create customised dashboards

Engineering sector hiring challenges

The Engineering sector overwhelmingly has a candidate scarcity challenge, which was cited by 70% of respondents. The next biggest challenge is building a diverse and inclusive workforce, followed by limitations related to Hybrid/Flexible working.

Regular monitoring and measurement of the effectiveness of sourcing channels and recruitment KPIs are imperative to get the most out of different sourcing channels.

Those who have an active metrics and analytics programme consistently report greater quality of the candidates they attract.

With Eploy you get complete recruitment analytics built-in through an engineering applicant tracking system within which you can create dashboards that measure and monitor, in real-time, every aspect of your hiring process.

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Here's what engineering & manufacturing recruitment teams are saying about Eploy

“The hiring manager experience was a key factor in using Eploy’s e-recruitment solution. With over 190 depots it was critical that we selected a ‘one-stop shop’ system that was intuitive and user-friendly to help hiring managers deliver a consistent and open recruitment process locally. Having a Hiring Manager portal has been revolutionary in transforming recruitment and establishing an in-house direct source model. We have received fantastic feedback from managers at all levels in the business.”
Tracy EdwardsRecruitment Manager
“We had to deliver a complete ATS and online onboarding rapidly and are proud of what we have achieved. We worked alongside Eploy to configure and adapt the solution as we required, providing the flexibility to grow as a business. We now have a greater reporting capability with data and metrics across the whole process, giving us everything we need to plan, measure, monitor and continually improve our recruiting.”
Ashley MarshTalent Manager
"I am delighted with the functionality that Eploy Quick Launch provides. The set-up process was super simple, and we were live with our recruitment activity in just a few days. From me starting in my new role to going live with Eploy took just over two weeks. The Eploy Implementation lead was supportive to getting us up and running and the training and consultation support was intuitive and available as we needed it. I didn't think it would be possible to have a system to support our recruitment strategy and candidate journey delivered in such a short timescale – but it was.''
Paula ReadingRecruitment Business Partner
“Eploy has strengthened internal stakeholder relationships due to the efficiencies the Resourcing department can provide. These include transparency of the approval process (accountabilities for individuals at all levels), speed of time to hire has been greatly reduced, visibility on the process and a smooth professional process for the candidate.''
Keri TunkaraRecruitment Manager
“Following the success of ‘Aspire’ in the UK business we were keen to continue using Eploy’s agile ATS combined with system integrations to deliver a flexible and best-in-sector recruitment technology solution. It allows us to harness the benefits of implementing a Workday HCM solution. In addition, it enables close collaboration with the North American and Canadian business for a global approach to lead together by example. I’m incredibly proud of how the Recruitment, HR, Payroll, IT and Project teams worked together to implement these highly complex API integrations, successfully connecting our technology platforms and delivering efficiencies and improvements for all of our stakeholders.”
Tracy EdwardsRecruitment Manager