Recruitment in the Public Sector demands that hiring processes are based on merit, fairness and openness.
Eploy's Public Sector ATS (Applicant Tracking System) and Recruitment Software is designed to meet the challenge of recruiting in central and local government, health and emergency services.
Eploy tackles the challenge of finding qualified candidates in the public sector. Our ATS extends your reach, connecting you with the skilled talent necessary for your organisation's success.
With Eploy, public sector organisations can build a workforce that truly reflects the community. Our blind recruiting and gender bias decoding features ensure a fair, inclusive recruitment process.
Attract and engage the best candidates in the public sector with Eploy. Our ATS ensures an interactive and captivating experience, from initial job posting to final selection.
Eploy ensures public sector organisations meet all legal and ethical hiring standards. Our comprehensive compliance management safeguards your recruitment process, offering reliability and peace of mind.
Eploy revolutionises public sector recruitment with a focus on efficiency. Our configurable workflows and comprehensive hiring manager portal ensure a swift, effective hiring process from start to finish.
Recruitment in the Public Sector 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 Public Sector recruiters tackle these challenges and streamline their recruitment processes to achieve the results they need.
Organisations in the Public Sector find a good mix of candidates from their website/ career pages for their vacancies (97%). Professional Social Networks, such as LinkedIn are popular sourcing channels, utilised by 82% of Public Sector in-house recruitment teams. Events are also a popular sourcing channel in this sector, being used by 67% of respondents.
39% of Public Sector organisations turn to agencies for help in filling their vacancies, which can help with difficult-to-fill vacancies, but affects the company’s cost of hire.
When we look at how the Public sector is succeeding with talent attraction, the Sourcing Quadrant paints an interesting picture. Utilising an ATS/CRM/Talent Pools provides the best results when it comes to high quality and quantity of talent, however, only 21% of the respondents utilise this candidate sourcing channel. The following sourcing channel, that delives on both quality and quantity is Professional Social Media Platforms, like LinkedIn.
Agencies also continue to deliver a good balance of candidates for this sector. However, this comes with increased costs to hire.
In the Public sector, the levels of hiring in the next 12 months are expected to rise according to 29% of respondents, with 42% expecting no change and 29% citing that hiring levels will decrease.
When sourcing candidates it is important that there are simple, streamlined tools that allow for recruitment on the go for all those involved. That's why, with Eploy - as well as getting an award-winning Public Sector Applicant Tracking System, you get a dedicated hiring manager portal that's so easy to use your hiring managers will actually enjoy recruiting with it!
These handy downloadable checklists will help you to understand the needs of the various audiences involved with recruitment.
Understanding the Public sector hiring challenges helps to put in place ways to address them. Scarcity of qualified candidates and advertised salaries being lower than market average are the top two challenges. Poor perception of the sector also features highly as a challenge, with 39% of respondents indicating it as one. This challenge is followed by competitors being perceived to be a more desirable employer, potentially making it difficult to attract the right candidates.
To collaborate better as a team on day-to-day activities, monitor your KPIs and get a handle on your recruitment metrics.
With Eploy you get complete recruitment analytics built in. You can create dashboards that measure and monitor every aspect of your hiring process in real-time.
What channels do recruiters in the Public Sector use for sourcing candidates?
Finding talent
Which sourcing channels work best in the Public Sector?
Improve your advertising
Levels of hiring in the Public sector for next 12 months
Do more with less
Public sector hiring challenges
Solving hard problems
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The implementation team at Eploy provided effective solutions to challenges in our recruitment process and provided useful feedback through the implementation period. Working with our HR and Recruitment Team, they were extremely receptive to our requirements and worked with us to build a system which has already greatly improved our recruitment process from both a candidate and administration perspective.
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“Eploy is easy to configure and adapt to our requirements. It has the functionality we were looking for, with a complete end-to-end online recruitment experience. The hiring manager portal provides an improved hiring manager experience, and the candidate portal has enhanced the candidate experience, creating engagement through the process. We are in the early stages of embedding the new way of working into the business and can see how this is beginning to transform how we operate.”
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''One month since launching Islington Council's new Applicant Tracking System (ATS) with Eploy and we're already seeing massive improvements. Our average time to create a vacancy requisition has more than halved, and reference requests are returning within hours - not days.''
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Serving a combined population of around 250,000 residents, Chorley Council and South Ribble Borough Council are fast becoming a shining example of the power of collaboration. The Recruitment Team required a dedicated Applicant Tracking System to replace a system no longer fit for purpose, alongside manual, admin heavy processes.
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Islington Council is committed to eliminating discrimination, valuing diversity, and looking for opportunities to build community cohesion in everything it does. This ambition also applies to the programme to modernise its recruitment strategy and processes.
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Magenta Living is a thriving, regional housing association – the largest in Wirral with a strong community influence and locally rooted as one of the biggest employers. Read how they transformed how they operate to attract, engage, recruit and onboard the perfect teams.
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Eploy were selected by Defra through the G-Cloud Digital Marketplace, a place for public sector organisations to adopt cloud technologies, including Applicant Tracking Systems and Recruitment CRM, that demands that hiring processes are based on merit, fairness and openness.
