"iCIMS allows us to run a collaborative global recruitment program. There has been a tremendous increase in the number of quality applicants we have found since implementing iCIMS."
-- Strategic Staffing Specialist,
Occidental Oil & Gas Corporation

Oxy recruiters received several thousand resumes each year, but felt it was difficult to maintain records for these interested candidates. Oxy’s somewhat manual hiring management process was extremely time-consuming and provided little overall value to recruiters who sought to find great candidates in a short period of time.

Another issue at Oxy was a lack of collaboration among recruiters, applicants, and hiring managers. Recruiters felt their communication with other members of the hiring process was limited. Plus, the Oxy website did not include a career portal for interested candidates to explore open jobs. This significantly reduced the applicant pool from which recruiters could select. Furthermore, Oxy recruiters knew that competitors who were able to post jobs to their corporate website had an edge over Oxy in finding great talent quickly. Oxy’s final issue was a significant challenge—the corporation had to streamline its recruitment efforts across its worldwide locations. With about a third of its recruiters in the Middle East, Oxy needed to find a solution that would facilitate a consistent hiring process around the globe. Each site had specialized needs, including screening questions that were unique to each location. Oxy recruiters set out to find a solution that would address all of its recruitment challenges, both domestically and abroad.

After a thorough evaluation of vendors, recruiters decided iCIMS was the ideal provider. "iCIMS allows us to run a collaborative global recruitment program," said Gwen Hill, Oxy’s Strategic Staffing Specialist. "iCIMS eliminates the paper process and allows us to easily track our candidates and employment opportunities around the world. It addresses both our domestic and international needs, and it stood out on every point of criteria during our evaluation. iCIMS’ Talent Platform allows us to organize and streamline our international recruitment efforts, which was very important to our management," Hill said.

"We can quickly pre-screen our global candidates to see if they are legally authorized to work in particular locations, and then further screen only those applicants who are eligible, which has drastically reduced the time it takes to fill a position." Hill and her manager were so impressed with iCIMS that they successfully pitched the system to other divisions of the corporation. "iCIMS delivered huge improvements to us, and now the entire company is reaping the benefits of the system," Hill said. "There has been a tremendous increase in the number of quality applicants we have found since implementing iCIMS. The combination of the system’s screening capabilities, our new career site, and our quick and easy communication with the candidates has made a world of difference."

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Key Benefits:

• Significant increase in the number of quality applicants

• Creation of a global recruitment program across worldwide locations

• Improved job satisfaction of recruiters

• Elimination of paper process

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