VINCI Facilities, a world leader in sustainable building management, faced recruiting challenges to find increasingly scarce talent across key business functions including engineering, commercial, facilities, defence and construction.
One of the key challenges VINCI faced was a high instance of candidates failing to start their employment following acceptance of a verbal offer. VINCI wasn’t alone in this challenge as revealed in the latest CIPD Research and talent planning report supported by Omni. In the Report, it was found that of those organisations that recruited in the last 12 months, more than a quarter (27%) of selected candidates always, mostly, or sometimes failed to turn up on the first day, effectively “ghosting” the employer.
VINCI sought an innovative recruitment partner that was aligned with their sustainable culture and values.
VINCI’s goals were to:
Omni was tasked with streamlining the recruitment process, implementing new technology and improving candidate engagement to ensure VINCI could secure the best talent quickly and efficiently for hard-to-fill roles within the organisation.
Omni implemented several targeted strategies, each designed to address key pain points in the hiring process:
The partnership between Omni and VINCI delivered measurable improvements across the recruitment process, allowing VINCI to hire the critical talent required and significantly reducing the number of candidate dropouts by enhancing overall efficiency.
The collaboration between VINCI Facilities and Omni has significantly improved recruitment outcomes, especially in reducing candidate dropouts and a marked reduction in time-to-hire. Through a combination of streamlined onboarding, enhanced candidate engagement, and faster contract administration, the partnership has delivered tangible results.