River Island and Changeworknow's Online Recruitment System - Personnel Today Award Winners

Online, December 6, 2010 (Newswire.com) - At the prestigious award dinner in London last week River Island were announced as winners in the category Excellence in HR through Technology and Social Media. This award is in recognition of the outstanding achievements that River Island have achieved using Changeworknow's solution. Results such as:

Reduction in screening amounting to a £300,000 cost saving
Average time to hire of 19 days
Removing one third of the work load for managers with an estimated £800,000 cost saving to the business
Overall cost savings of £1.1 million

The award also recognises the new technology that Changeworknow have launched this year. The brand new platform has enabled River Island to use technology in an innovative way that has resulted in greater efficiencies. Fully integrated social media capabilities and a high degree of automation designed specifically for volume recruitment has helped with the huge cost savings.

Lisa Proctor, Changeworknow's Sales and Marketing Director, explains: "This is a fantastic achievement. We have worked with River Island for two years now and this award is in recognition of the great results that have been achieved across the business. A combination of leading edge technology together with a highly efficient process driven by a very forward thinking recruitment team at River Island has resulted in an outstanding and now award winning recruitment process. The team are continually looking for ways to improve the process and use technology in very innovative ways. At the same time consideration is given to providing a great candidate experience - no mean feat when you get over 100,000 applications a year".