Bristol, UK, 9 August, 2011, UNIT4 Business Software Ltd, the UK division of UNIT4, the world’s leading provider of business software for Businesses Living IN Change (BLINC™), today announced that the University of York has selected Agresso e-Recruiter to enable the institution to adapt rapidly to change in the sector and planned growth.
The University is the current Times Higher Education “University of the Year” and is consistently judged to be one of the top ten universities in the UK for teaching and research. The University is expanding physically and increasing the level of academic and research activity undertaken. This managed growth is supported by recruitment strategies to attract world-class academic, research and support staff.
With this in mind the University of York has selected Agresso e-Recruiter as its new web-enabled recruitment solution. Agresso e-Recruiter is an integrated hiring technology solution that streamlines recruiting operations, enabling the University to run an efficient recruitment facility that is fronted with a clear intuitive website.
As vacancies may be spread across the University’s departments, academic and management recruiters may be infrequent users of the system, the solution therefore had to be easy to understand and use.
“We chose Agresso e-Recruiter because it is flexible and configurable, providing a well designed, and adaptable solution for managing worldwide recruitment,” said Rob Hargrave, the University’s HR Shared Services Manager.
Agresso e-Recruiter will also make the application process for potential employees simple via an intuitive web interface. Once applications are submitted the University will then be able to track applications through the recruitment lifecycle.
“We felt the need to have a flexible solution, so that we could adapt to future recruitment changes and manage this within the e-Recruiter product.” says Pat Lofthouse, the University’s HR Director.
Agresso e-Recruiter will be integrated into the University’s Agresso Campus Platform and will interface with the University’s HR system.
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About UNIT4
UNIT4 is a global business software and services company aimed at helping dynamic public sector, and commercial services organisations to embrace change simply, quickly and cost effectively in a market sector it calls 'Businesses Living IN Change' (BLINC)™. The Group incorporates a number of the world’s leading change embracing software brands including Agresso Business World, our flagship ERP suite for mid-sized services intensive organisations and Coda, our best-of-class financial management software.
In the UK we focus strongly on the public sector, where we are the leading provider of ERP systems to local government and post 16 education organisations, as well as having a considerable presence in the emergency services and health sectors. We also focus strongly on professional services organisations and a range of commercial sectors including Financial Services, Retail and Media and Publishing. Overall we aim to be the UK’s foremost business software company, providing solutions that transform the delivery of public services and comprehensively support commercial organisations in their ability to adapt and prosper in rapidly changing environments.
With operations in 17 European countries, as well as 7 countries across North America, Asia Pacific and Africa and sales activities in several other countries, its revenue was €421.7 million in 2010. UNIT4 is headquartered in Sliedrecht, the Netherlands and has over 4,000 employees. It is listed on Euronext Amsterdam and is included in the Amsterdam Midcap Index (AMX). For more information on UNIT4 or any of its operating companies, please visit the website at www.unit4.com, follow us on Twitter @UNIT4_UK
