Meridian Business Support mission statement
is to provide quality tailored recruitment
solutions for our clients across a number of disciplines.
Overall, we've got 33 branches and employ 250 to 300 people.
Well, Indeed Hiring events will make
hiring easier because we have a planned program of activity
over time, 3 weeks where we build impressions and branding
and we add Facebook and other social media channels into that
and we collectively work on the material
together and bring candidates and book candidates in,
make sure the candidates meet the criteria
because we've got screening questions.
So the people who do turn up who we want to see,
it gives you the opportunity to gain trust and have the client
here.
So you've got clinical people and operational people
here who are doing the day job, works
extremely well from a source and perspective and the candidate
level of interest, perspective and we've met them candidates.
So it's much warmer and it's a better feel.
When I gotten here I was assisted, introduced to a lot
many people.
There was a lot of networking happening.
Came across people who helped me out with the roles
and responsibilities, who told me how the role is going to be,
what exactly I'll be doing in the field I'm looking for.
And after the whole question and answering procedure,
I was taken for an informal interview,
and that's how the whole people, work and everything was done.
It's useful to be able to speak to people who are actually
doing the job and people who are interviewing you
it's much more informal.
And I think you get an opportunity
to ask questions in a way that perhaps wouldn't
be afforded to you if it was a formal interview situation.
You can spend a huge amount of time
filling an application form, sending it off, waiting
for information, turning up to an interview
and finding it's actually not really what you thought
it was going to be whereas having something that's
a bit more informal it gives you a bit more scope
to ask questions you actually want to know about.
So the good thing about this event
is that there was nothing hidden.
Whatever the event said it was going to be about
it exactly is the same.
And my whole procedure, all the paperwork, everything is done.
Just waiting for the call next week.
Indeed has showcased the event on the platform, the world's
number one platform.
We've also ran a campaign, an Indeed brand campaign.
Those two running alongside each other
has meant that we've had a lot more eyes viewing this event.
It will give us candidates in different areas
that we mightn't reach just through adverts
or we mightn't reach through our database,
and therefore feed our client faster within SLAs,
so therefore meet the client's needs
and obviously it becomes a profitable operation for us
really.
We've met candidates from different disciplines.
You fulfill a kind of criteria.
So we met physios, OTs, paramedics, and nurses,
and they're interested in changing career
within their clinical qualification.
And we're giving them something different,
and it's social hours for them.
It's something new, and it's enhancing
their clinical skills.
And they're really interested in what they saw today,
and we give them lots of literature
for them to go away and look at.
And we've booked in some screenings and some telephone
interviews with them before we then
take them down the road of sending them to our clients.
I'd say I highly recommended Indeed Hiring events
to other organizations because it's a point of difference
and it's something that bring candidates towards you.
It's a different method within a marketplace
because recruitment is changing.
I wouldn't like our competitors to steal the march on us
because we've already stolen the march on them
and we'll be one step ahead anyway.
So yeah, it would be good for organizations
to use Indeed to fill their needs.