Case Study

12 Occupational Health Professionals needed within 5 weeks at 6 different locations

Situation

Our client, a leading occupational health provider, needed to hire new 12 new occupational health professionals, occupational health advisors x6 and occupational health technicians x6 to work on new client sites across the UK in London, Birmingham, Reading, Cardiff, Gloucester and Bristol. They needed to hire an occupational health advisor and technician on each site. In a video-meeting they explained that the candidates will be working on single sites, with the option of 1 day a week from home. A 5-week timeline for the candidates to be: interviewed, offered and have start dates agreed. The end client did not want the roles advertised on job boards or social media. We discussed the company environment, culture, expectations within the jobs, benefits, salary, and career progression.

What we did

Instead of using one recruiter to try and fill all the positions we used more of our team. Each recruiter had their own location; we sent out a video to all our talent pools and voice notes to our hidden social networks to reach the OHAs and OH Techs to create conversations about the roles. In the conversations we went through detailed job specs that covered the job, daily expectations, training, benefits, career progression, and salaries. We wanted to match the correct people with the job and the company’s environment and culture.

By the end of the first week each recruiter had a shortlist of 3 OHAs and 3 OH Techs for each location and we submitted them to the end client. The end client requested 36 first interviews, we confirmed the interviews and helped the OHAs and OH Techs prepare for the MS Teams interviews, after the interviews we took their feedback and passed this on to the end client, 2 candidates out of the 36 decided to withdraw, the client did not want to add new candidates in the process. The end client requested 24 candidates for final interviews onsite at each of the sites with OH and HR, including a tour of the facilities. We confirmed the interviews and helped the OHAs and OH Techs prepare for an OH and HR interview. We took all their feedback and discussed the feedback with the hiring managers. The client came back and made 12 job offers. All offers were accepted, and we provided the details/compliance for the client to email out the Contracts of Employment. All Contracts of Employment were signed and sent back to the client with agreed start dates by the end of week 4.