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HR at Inova reengineers recruitment process

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Inova Health System was compelled to reengineer its recruitment process because its old facility-based decentralized recruitment program was rendered obsolete by the dramatic changes in the health care industry. The Falls Church, VA-based nonprofit health group also wanted to reduce its recruitment costs which was bloated due to duplicated efforts. The health-care system's HR department decided to streamline its recruitment process to increase the organization's effectiveness as a 10,000-person multifacility. Recruitment and employment policies were consolidated, while the applications and forms supporting these policies were redesigned. New policies were also introduced that addressed issues relevant to current Inova employees, such as internal transfers, employee reassignments and evaluation systems. The simplification of the hiring procedures enabled Inova to cut its number of applicants and interviews, and to increase internal hiring.

Health Care, Health Care and Social Assistance, Health care industry, Medical care, Inova Health System

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Research provides advertising focus

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NEC Information Systems wanted to increase the effectiveness of its recruitment advertisements and the company achieved successful results by using research to provide advertising focus. The effective process included: meeting with its advertising agency to review advertising campaigns; establishing focus groups of systems analysts and marketing professionals to evaluate advertisement responses; and researching how to formulate the information garnered through research into effective advertisements. Research results indicate that NEC Information Systems increased total exempt hires through advertisements from 19% to 41%. Results also show that sales hires through advertisements increased from 14.6% to 47.8%. Additionally, results show that the company achieved savings of nearly $500,000 by decreasing its use of agencies.

Advertising research, NEC Information Systems Inc.

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Continental banks on new hiring plan

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Continental Bank's new corporate strategy led to the revision of its recruitment and training procedures. The new strategy focused on the ability of officers to close deals, and the recruitment process was changed to reflect the new strategy. Continental increased the importance placed on candidates' work experience, retrained its in-house recruiters, emphasized specialization during training, and increased salaries from the $40,000-to-$42,000 range to the $50,000-to-$55,000 range.

DEPOSITORY INSTITUTIONS, Banking industry, Employee training, Continental Bank

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