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Case Study: How RS Talent Solutions Streamlined Rostrum's Recruitment and Saved £36,500

Reuben Sinclair • 12 June 2024

How Talent Solutions helped Rostrum

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Rostrum is a full service communications agency, offering PR, content and influencer marketing, social media, training and design. Rostrum works with clients ranging from FTSE100 companies, global law firms and Big Four professional services firms, through to high-growth start–ups and established midmarket players.

Rostrum’s clients benefit from a blend of proven and cutting-edge PR techniques that have been designed to meet their specific business and communication objectives.

Whether businesses want to become thought leaders in their market, win more business or develop content that cuts through the noise, the Rostrum team delivers.

The Challenge

Senior staff members having their time eaten up by mountains of recruitment, associated paperwork and recruitment processes. Not enough time spent on the bigger picture, attracting the best talent and selecting the best candidates for growth.

What did Rostrum need?

Scaled hiring - between 12-18 hires over 12 months.
To reduce the cost of hiring.
Improve recruitment quality.
Free time up of senior team.

The Solution

RS Talent Solutions became an extension of Rostrum. The Talent Solutions team was the first port of call for developing job descriptions, nurturing talent through the recruitment process, training hiring managers on the interview process, identifying outstanding candidates, managing other recruiters and coordinating the recruitment process.

Key Stats:

18 hires in 12 months
3-4 weeks average turnaround (from job briefing to offer)
Interview to hire ratio 3:1
Savings: £36,500 across permanent recruitment

Key Elements Used

Reporting

Find talent through market mapping, building of applicant tracking system and a formal insights report including key data and metrics looking at

time spent on hiring across the business.

Interviews

Reduced time spent of screening CV’s as well decreasing number of irrelevant interviews. Higher concentration of focussing on relevant candidates thereby reducing their interview to ratio from 6:1 down to 3:1.

Brand Promo

Amplified employer brand through social media and direct

approaches via Linkedin on behalf of the senior management team. Extensive outreach to our network and talent partners.

Job Descriptions

Revamped job descriptions to include critical information

needed to attract the best talent.