Matrix SCM attended the Society of Personnel & Development Scotland’s annual conference on the 1^st and 2^nd of November. The theme across the two days was to ‘Channel Your Inner Warrior!’, and there with some fantastic talks that left our exhibition team coming away revitalised and ready to work.

Some of these talks included: Neyber teaching us 20 words we will never forget, Richard MacKinnon who’s talk on ‘Show up! Let’s Go! Keep moving!’ is something we have already started implementing in the office, and PPMA’s own Karen Grave introducing us to their amazing eBook Walk Tall.

We conducted research into organisations Recruitment Processes:

As part of our contribution to the event, we partnered up with SPDS to try to understand the key problems organisations are facing in their current recruitment process. To do this we created a survey that was handed out throughout the conference to find what issues attendees were facing in their current recruitment process.

The results are now in and there are some interesting numbers, some key figures we have picked from attendee’s top pain points from their current recruitment process include:

82% have talent shortages, with 41% not getting suitable candidate CV’s for roles.

53% experience too much off contract spend.

47% have a lack of visibility and real-time management information of spend

41% are losing time over manual-based processes

The full statistics from the day can be found below:

Write up from our findings:

From what we can see, the largest issue seems to be finding the right candidates. Organisations current processes are struggling to find talent, which is leading too unsuitable CV’s coming through for roles and causing off-contract spend.

Interestingly nobody we surveyed thought they had a disconnect with local workers and suppliers, so communication is good, but the suppliers just aren’t providing the right candidates for roles. 

Almost half of the people we asked had a lack of visibility and real-time management information of their recruitment spend, with a large percentage of them losing time over manual-based processes.

From these statistics we hope to start conversations about the key problem’s organisations are facing and looking at how we solve them.

How Matrix SCM can help you overcome these issues:

At this point we want to introduce Matrix SCM’s recruitment process software that manages the end to end process of procurement, providing full visibility and real-time management information and digitises existing manual-based processes.

As a software company we don’t actively recruit for you, however, you can pair our system with Account Managers and Business managers who will manage a Supply Chain of recruitment agencies for you. This Neutral Vendor Managed Service ensures you always get the best talent on the market, with a proven track record of reducing off-contract spend, removing the need for long manual processes and increasing the number of roles filled with a fulfilment rate of 99.6% within client set deadlines.

To learn how we have helped councils to overcome these issues and to book a free Demo of our software please fill in the contact form below: