Open Shift is our candidate sourcing feature, used by our recruitment experts, that has been helping businesses across the UK find the unique talent necessary for their vacancies. This utilises candidate data across our 180,000+ wide talent community to seek the right people for your positions.
We understand that backfilling unexpected staffing gaps, often comes with urgency, so our solutions are designed around making sure that talent ready to work are seeing your shift needs quickly. This feature has helped businesses across the UK manage their workforce needs through:
Our Open Shift feature is a sophisticated algorithm that helps our recruitment consultants match candidates quickly, ensuring that you get the right candidates, when you need them.
Our skill and location-based matching allows for non-biased recruitment decisions, supporting diversity and inclusion strategies for businesses across the UK.
The automated components of Open Shift make the process cost-effective and efficient, reducing the overheads of long-term administration effort, and supporting quick backfill activity.
Candidates who have previously worked in your business are matched and prioritised with a higher suitability rating, to save training time and increase peace of mind by finding candidates you know and trust.
The system ensures that only candidates who meet your compliance requirements are considered. Any candidates who fall below your regulation needs are filtered from matched candidate results, so that you can recruit with confidence by choosing only legally compliant candidates.
Our Open Shift feature quickly gauges the level of interest in each job, providing an early indication of recruitment challenges and market trends so that we can provide a reactive approach to your recruitment needs.
Through this feature, we provide consistency of service delivery across all Blue Arrow teams, 24/7. So, every time that you hire with us, you know what to expect and can rely on our outcomes.
Our Talent Watchdog feature is perfect for finding and retaining the quality talent within your sector. Based on 65 years of recruitment experience, we understand sourcing talent can be difficult, that is why we aim to make spotting quality candidates easier for our clients.
Several ways we do this include:
Through this feature, you can quickly access new candidates with desirable skills suited to your vacancies – so that they never get lost among volume applicant responses.
Our recruitment consultants can set up notifications for niche skills, ensuring Blue Arrow’s clients never miss a key candidate. These notifications make sure that we always find and prioritise people with the best skills for your positions, as soon as they apply to your vacancy.
Top candidates often apply to multiple job adverts as soon as they enter the job market, making them quickly placed in other roles. Our instant notification means that our recruitment consultants can respond at the peak of candidate interest and intent—right at the point of application – securing this talent for your business before competitors.
Recruitment consultants can quickly gauge the level of interest in each job, providing an earlier indication of recruitment challenges. By identifying issues early, we can quickly develop a candidate attraction approach to ensure that you get the number of applicants needed for your positions.
Our Talent Watchdog feature is developed to ensure our consultant find talent faster when other candidate attraction methods fail. If you’re struggling to attract the right talent to your business, we can find the skilled talent you need.
Our Blue Arrow app is designed to offer our candidates a quick, easy, and accessible way into work – meaning that we can provide your business with the best talent on your doorstep, with helpful dashboards to help candidates and businesses keep track of work hours, shifts, and fulfilment.
This mobile app can enhance workforce management by empowering candidates to:
Candidates can quickly and easily update their availability, ensuring they are considered for suitable shifts. This allows you to fill shifts quicker, with people available to work on the day, reducing your levels of absenteeism and non-attendance.
This feature improves timesheet management and your invoice accuracy, ensuring that the hours worked are verified, so that you pay for the work you receive. This ensures timely and accurate payments, making your payroll easier to manage while maintaining candidate morale with efficient and reliable payment.
Candidates can better align their working patterns with their preferences and personal schedules, allowing your business to fulfil shifts with candidates who reliably choose the working hours that work for them.
You can quickly fill open vacancies by allowing candidates to accept shifts directly through the app. By offering shifts through an easy-to-use, mobile application, candidates can find work on-the-go, making filling your shifts easier for everyone.
The app matches candidates with jobs that align with their skills, experience, qualifications, location, and preferred shift patterns. By using these metrics, we ensure a better fit for both the candidate and the client.
Accessing your staffing information in real-time is vital for businesses looking to get a better grasp on their recruitment activity and ensure that their shifts are being fulfilled to improve productivity and efficiency. As cost-savings become more crucial for businesses going forward, being able to understand and access your data with a fully customisable and transparent dashboard is necessary for flexible, reliable staffing:
Through our client portal you can ensure smooth operations and make fully informed decisions by:
Whether you’re looking for a real-time trend or forecasting for the future, knowing your staffing demand is vital for understanding the growth of your business and the individual needs of each location.
Ensure cost-effective staffing strategies with your candidate spend at your fingertips. You have full control and flexibility over how your budget is aligned with your staffing needs through transparent spend information.
Ensure that you’re only paying for the work you receive with timesheets logged and managed in one location. This allows you to see in real-time how your shifts are being filled and executed.
This is a reliable capture of your invoices, allowing you to better understand where your staffing budget is going so that you have full visibility of your candidate spend across site locations and shifts.
