We are pleased to welcome Thomas Avemaria as a new customer consultant. Apart from experiences in sales and customer support, he also has lots of expertise in HR and recruiting.

As a personal contact person for our customers, he will answer all questions on the heroes e-recruiting application management system and provide our new customers with competent support for product launch. The background to the staff increase is the continuously growing number of heroes e-recruiting customers.

“As we are seeing a higher demand for direct customer contact, we want to reinforce our team” says Markus Mäteling (Head of Customer Support), “Individual consulting and optimal adjustment to meet the customer’s needs are challenges we take seriously with a proactive approach.”

Due to the shortage of skilled professionals and demographic change, it is still especially difficult to cover the number of required personnel in the next years. Companies expect that more than one third of all vacancies can only be filled with great effort or not at all. For recruiters, this means to quickly and optimally respond to incoming applications in an increasingly tightening market of applicants in order to attract the best candidates. Here, a software-supported application management system like heroes e-recruiting does not only help to search for and select applicants but also to coordinate internal decision processes. Thus, the entire recruiting workflow can be improved and accelerated.

Furthermore, the large companies that were interviewed stated that most jobs were published via online channels. In 2012, nine out of ten vacancies were posted on the company website and the highest percentage (69.1 %) of all vacancies was posted in Internet job boards since the beginning of the survey in 2003. Most actual recruitments were achieved via the Internet job board, followed by the number of recruitments achieved via the company website. Online applications and job postings in all online channels are an essential advantage when using application management software. A job market can be integrated in the company website, allowing the look and feel of the company for the online application form. The online application forms can be freely selected depending on the requirement. Here, for example reduced forms can be established for brief applications to simplify the application process for the applicant.

What still can be recorded is the increasing digitalisation of incoming applications, the establishment of the employer branding tool “social media – Facebook and Xing, the growing importance of active sourcing in the form of individual talent pool, and the increasing emphasis on mobile recruiting. The heroes e-recruiting application management software can make an important contribution to employer branding in social networks, ensuring a consistent brand appearance towards applicants and meeting the talents where they are. By automatically collecting all email, mail, or online applications in one system, a continuously growing pool of talents is created, which can be searched by numerous criteria.

We are glad to inform you personally about additional advantages of efficient application management software in the harsh competition for qualified personnel. Contact us.

Apart from following heroes e-recruiting on Twitter, you may also become a “fan” of heroes e-recruiting on Facebook or subscribe to the company news on XING. Moreover, you can always remain informed as a subscriber of our RSS feed, receiving valuable information about heroes e-recruiting directly on your screen. Thanks to our new youtube channel, you can also get a visual impression of the scope and functions of the heroes e-recruiting application management system.

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Following the principle of the MEGA group  ”acting for the craft industry”, the top priority is to ensure a high quality of goods and services within and for the craft industry. Therefore, quality and service at a reasonable price/performance ratio was also crucial for the selection of an appropriate recruiting system for the entire MEGA group. The decision was made for the heroes e-recruiting application management software. After almost one year of using the system, Jan Wehnert, head of the personnel development department, summarizes:

 ”The collaboration with heroes e-recruiting reflects our promise of service and customer proximity to our members, customers, and suppliers, which we fulfil every day. The heroes team ensured a smooth implementation process of the heroes system on schedule.”

Efficient and communication-oriented application management with heroes e-recruiting

Since the system launch on 1 March 2012, all HR managers have been supported in their search for the best employees by an efficient and communication-oriented application management with numerous automated process steps.

Heroes e-recruiting now allows to consistently and quickly post new jobs. By integrating a job board on the website in the corporate design of the MEGA group, the job postings are clearly structured by location and business division. The possibility of applying online facilitates the work of both applicants and HR managers. A well-structured list of all applications for a selected job posting allows easier comparability and can be viewed by all parties involved from all business divisions at any time. Additionally, all parties involved have an overview of the steps taken within the application process via the history function. Well-founded decisions can be made by means of the assessment and forward function without delay. Automated correspondences such as acknowledgements of receipt and individual email templates for acceptance or refusal allow timely and applicant-oriented communication. Mass mailing and sending appointments in ical format allow to correspond with several applicants at a time and ensure an advantage on the market due to short response times. Interesting applicants are collected in an talent pool which is automatically established. In case of short-term staff shortages, appropriate candidates can be quickly selected via search options like matching, tagging, and ABC categories.

Thanks to the numerous advantages of direct communication via a central system, heroes e-recruiting makes an essential contribution to strengthen the cooperative-based MEGA mission statement “acting for the craft industry”: Applicants, employees, and members of the MEGA group experience a consistent, trustworthy brand appearance of the MEGA group which is focused on activity and service.

About the MEGA group

The MEGA group is a cooperative system provider for refurbishment, renovation, and modernization. Founded in 1901 at Hamburg by a few craftsmen, the MEGA group looks back on 111 years of cooperative tradition. Today, the company belongs to more than 5,200 independent master painters, plasterers, and floor layers and is the largest independent trading company in this industry with more than 100 locations. About 1,500 employees promote the craft trade every days and support 43,000 customers. The product range for trade partners comprises paints and renders, floor and wall coverings, thermal insulation systems, dry construction material, building material, machines and tools as well as banking and insurance services of its own bank for SME loans MKB Mittelstandskreditbank AG. The sales volume of the MEGA group including all equity participations amounts to 350 million euros.

The Senior Experts Management System, which was implemented for and with Bosch Management Support GmbH to map the process of expert recruiting, is a further development of the heroes e-recruiting standard solution. The integrated qualification matching engine of heroes e-recruiting forms the flexible basis for the Senior Experts Management System mapping the entire workflow of profiling, recruiting, and administering senior experts. During the development, particular attention was paid to the special requirements of the target group, the so-called best agers. Experts are seniors that are not necessarily familiar with the daily use of web interfaces. The great potential of automated and system-supported processes was also used for the integration of the system into the existing IT landscape. All information, from identifying the involved user groups to preparing, issuing, and invoicing of contracts, working times, and travel expenses, will be forwarded to the adjacent systems in the required form.

The jury of the HR Excellence Awards 2012 considered the Senior Experts Management System of Bosch Management GmbH and TELUM GmbH pioneering in the future years of HR management in terms of strategy and conceptual design. The creativity of the project idea and implementation as well as the sustainability are considered outstanding. On 5 December 2012, the nominated projects will be discussed by the jury. Subsequently, the jury will vote for the category winners.

About the HR Excellence Awards 2012

The HR Excellence Awards 2012 are organized by the trade magazine Human Resources Manager. The magazine, which is published six times a year, addresses HR managers in companies, associations, and organizations and is accompanied by the regularly published newsletters personalszene, reporting on changes in the HR industry, and HR-Presseschau, giving a daily overview of news from the media.

With the HR Exellence Awards, the magazine wants to enhance the public awareness of modern HR projects marked by extraordinary innovation. For this purpose, the magazine awards excellent projects in 2 x 30 categories in a transparent competition. The HR Excellence Awards Jury consists of more than 20 HR experts, including personnel managers from leading German and international companies, who will assess all nominations with an expert view.