Bristol, UK, November 7, 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 Cranfield University has selected UNIT4’s one-stop Software as a Service (SaaS) recruitment solution, Agresso e-Recruiter. The solution will streamline internal recruiting operations, save time and money, and enhance the applicant experience.
Attracting and recruiting the best talent is key to Cranfield maintaining its global reputation for inspirational teaching, high quality research and renowned business connections. With this in mind the University is implementing Agresso e-Recruiter. The solution will streamline the entire recruitment lifecycle, enabling candidates to apply and track their application progression electronically and recruiting managers to access applications online to short list candidates.
“The recruitment of the best possible staff is vital for the University’s drive to continue to improve its position as one of the leading postgraduate research centres in the world,” said Jo Catterill, the University’s HR Projects Manager. “Agresso e-Recruiter will be fundamental to the University achieving this.”
The solution will enable Cranfield University, via a thoroughly modern interface, to attract applicants and help the University’s recruitment team easily adapt its strategy and apply best practice recruitment processes. Agresso e-Recruiter includes a job board that is fully integrated with the Institution’s website, application tracking, configurable online application forms and 25 standard reports.
Agresso’s flexibility is also important to the University, allowing recruitment staff to configure the system when required without the need to call in costly external IT consultants.
“We chose Agresso e-Recruiter because we felt that it is the most flexible solution available and offers the most cost effective long term investment,” said Ruth Gardener, HR Systems Manager at Cranfield University. “The University is keen to provide an excellent experience for applicants and recruitment managers in University departments, Agresso e-Recruiter helps deliver this.”
Agresso e-Recruiter is part of UNIT4’s Agresso Campus Platform which is specifically designed for the Higher Education sector.
“UNIT4 is the leading supplier of business enterprise software Platforms to the post-16 education sector, with over 250 education clients in the UK and Ireland,” said Darren Hunt, Director at UNIT4. “Our solutions facilitate change and are allowing our education customers to act more commercially and in doing so, be more competitive.”
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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
