How one healthcare network hired 4,000 employees while merging HR systems

Hackensack Meridian Health was born in July 2016 when two of the leading New Jersey not-for-profit healthcare organizations merged. The combined healthcare network comprises 33,000 employees, 13 hospitals, and more than 120 ambulatory care centers providing a complete range of medical services, research, and life-enhancing care.

Following the merger, Hackensack Meridian Health needed to unify its recruiting technologies in order to provide employees with a single seamless platform, and candidates with a consistent and easy-to-use experience. The migration had to be accomplished without disrupting the hiring of 4,000 new employees, many of whom were sourced from former patients.

The central challenge was to integrate all the supplementary talent acquisition tools –including candidate assessments, background screening, and reference checking –into the configurable iCIMS Talent Cloud, which in turn, had to be integrated into Hackensack Meridian Health’s three existing human resource and payroll platforms.

iCIMS helped Hackensack Meridian Health:

• Centralize its talent acquisition software into a single unified hub
• Integrate recruiting software tools
• Increase recruiters’ productivity and fill jobs faster
• Use one source for reporting and analytics
• Reduce the costly data errors stemming from using multiple systems
• Consistently deliver an exceptional candidate experience
• Be able to scale recruiting to support its expanding healthcare network