Education Sector Applicant Tracking System Spotlight: Avanti Schools Trust
Avanti Schools began in 2003, and their first school opened in 2008. Their vision was to create a family of schools based upon Avanti's core principles of educational excellence, character formation, and spiritual insight. The schools now have close to 5,500 students and 700 staff members across Avanti's family of 12 schools.
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Avanti has a proven approach to school development and improvement, with excellent pupil outcomes across its schools and the capacity to support more schools. They have also built first-rate centralised functions for finance, HR, project management, marketing, and premises.
The Avanti Schools Trust team previously used HR software that offered basic recruitment capabilities as a secondary module to its payroll and HR functionality. Limitations of the recruitment module resulted in manual interventions and a disjointed process impacting candidates and hiring manager engagement.
Hollie Jones, Recruitment Manager at Avanti Schools Trust, shares below why they chose Eploy's Applicant Tracking System as a future-proof solution to help streamline recruitment, improve candidate experience and help hiring managers manage the recruitment process with the right tools.
"The education sector isn't the easiest of industries to recruit for. Sector challenges include candidate scarcity and a disconnect between the available recruitment marketing budget and a cost of living crisis where public sector salaries compete with private sector salaries. I want to use recruitment data to help us find out what we are doing right and what we can do to improve and encourage more quality candidates to apply with Avanti.
"Capturing candidate feedback through Eploy will help to understand the candidate experience and evaluate what we can build on. The flexibility to simplify our application process while capturing essential information to support industry regulation and compliance, such as safeguarding, is made easy through intuitive customisation features in Eploy.
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"The feedback we've had so far from our hiring managers is that they love the tools available to them in the Eploy Hiring Manager portal. They are already suggesting how we can continually build on what we have. I am keen to get my hands on the data and recruitment dashboards. We've not had that level of reliable data before, but now we can measure all metrics within Eploy.''
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Hollie Jones
Recruitment Manager
"Hiring managers and the central recruitment team can easily view an application and score candidates consistently.
"Eploy's Agency Portal is providing the team with control of our PSL to track agency costs and usage. We have reduced administration and have visibility of candidate sources.
"In a short time, we have greatly improved our recruitment process and have a system that will continue to adapt to our business needs."
You can find out more about the Avanti School Trust vision and careers here: https://www.avanticareers.org.uk/