Dive Brief:
- Meijer, the retail chain and the nation's 19th largest privately held company, turned to outsourcing to help it through an ongoing growth spurt, according to Outsourcing Today.
- With an estimated 50,000 annual hires, Meijer's existing recruiting and hiring strategy was falling short. For example, it had to use managers from other stores to attend job fairs and conduct mass hiring events.
- Additionally, distance between the new stores opening in Wisconsin (a new territory) made sending management for hiring exercises costly and inefficient. So the company turned to outsourcing, specifically partnering with EG Workforce Solutions.
Dive Insight:
"We felt like we needed a partnership in order to get that accomplished. Draining resources from other parts of the Meijer system was not the most productive use of time and energy," Michael Rotelle, Meijer's senior vice president of HR and CHRO told Outsourcing Today.
Through a series of strategies, including use of social media, internal recruiting and others candidate-focused concepts, Meijer has seen a 25% improvement in attrition, reduced onboarding from 30 days to 10 days, and a 40% quality improvement in hires, among other positive metrics.
Most of all, Rotelle told Outsourcing Today that Meijer's hiring process has been transformed via outsourcing with EG Workforce Solutions. "They provide an alternative that produces a very good quality candidate and streamlines the process so not only does it help the candidate, but it certainly helps Meijer," Rotelle said.
