CASE STUDY
WhiteCrow is a Platform that Connects Talent to Opportunities. It supports Fortune 500 and large companies connecting with highly skilled, niche, and senior talent giving them better insights into available talent landscapes. These insights enable TA’s to make informed decisions while delivering more direct hires.
WhiteCrow Talent Management System
The team of recruiters and researchers at WhiteCrow works for employers across the globe to provide screened candidates or market research for specific and niche requirements. All teams work for different time zones and had their own way of delivering to clients. Most conversations with the employers and the candidates happened over emails or phone calls.
Objective
To revamp the existing internal tool (Talenton) with an effective and time-saving system, for the internal team, the
candidates and the employers ( keeping the system GDPR complaint ).
Challenges
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Outdated system
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Load time
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Double entry
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No standard process of delivery
In addition
The new system was also expected to cater to the sales department and the accounts department
Approach
Research
Shadowing
User interviews
Personas
Competitor analysis
Define
Flow
Card sorting Entities/modules
Key features
Ideate
Brainstormed Information architecture Wireframe
Prototype
High fidelity wireframes UI
AEGIS - TALENT MANAGEMENT PLATFORM
Users
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Operations (researchers, recruiters, account managers)
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Sales
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Accounts
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Super Admin
Primary users are the operations team. Each team had a hierarchy of researcher/recruiter (L3) > Team lead (L2) > account manager (L1)
Manoj Sallian
Account manager (L1)
Behavior
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Has been hiring for the past 10 yrs.
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Manages a team of 5 recruiters and 3 researchers.
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Serves APAC region.
Current product interaction
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Verifies the data to be sent to the employer
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Onboards employers
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Create mandates
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Assigns team members to mandates
Needs and goals
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Needs to send regular updates and reports to employers
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Report generation
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Overview team performance
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Overview of mandate performance
Anthea C
Recruiter (L2)
Behavior
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Has been hiring for the past 5 yrs.
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Talk to employers and candidates regularly
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Managers 2 recruiters
Current product interaction
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Creates mandates
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Assign team members to mandates
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Creates candidates
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Assign candidates to mandates
Needs and goals
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•Needs to regularly update employees on the progress
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Needs recommendation of suitable candidates against mandates
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Need quick search methods
Mahendra Singh Researcher (L3)
Behavior
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Has been providing research and market intelligence for the past 2 yrs.
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No interaction with candidates at all
Current product interaction
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Creates candidates
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Assign candidates to mandates
Needs and goals
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Needs quicker search methods
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Needs to know the status of candidate's application
Impact
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Candidate creation time went down from 25-30 mins to 5-10 mins
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Data now could be reused within various teams, with clarity on progress
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Team's performance and mandates health could be tracked
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Reports and analytics were system generated, no need to send reports from outside the system
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80% of communications were through the platform, compared to the earlier process
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All teams now worked in a standardized flow
CANDIDATE PLATFORM
Challenges:
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All communications were through emails or calls
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No information on the progress of the application
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Candidates could not find jobs for themselves, they relied on recruiters to apply for jobs
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Company information was verbally communicated
What we introduced:
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Recommended jobs
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Rating the recruiter and the overall journey
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CV parsing and CV building
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Detailed company information
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Getting in touch with relevant people from the company
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Career path suggestions*
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Apply discreetly
Impact
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Transparent tracking of application
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The candidates got control over their profiles, so they started to update/edit profiles, saving recruiters time
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No of logins increased by 20% after introducing build your CV
EMPLOYER PLATFORM
Challenges:
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All communications were through emails or calls
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No information on the progress and health of mandate
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Too many tools to be used for understanding the collaboration with WhiteCrow (Excels for reports, emails for mandates health, etc)
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Excels were exchanged for shortlisting candidates, that resulted in creation of many versions
What we introduced:
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Transparent view on the health of mandates
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Shortlisting and other communications through the platform
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Visual analysis of data
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Detailed candidate information
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Posting jobs discreetly
Impact
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We saw an increase in the number of team members involved every month
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Increase in time spent on the platform after reports and analysis were generated through the platform
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No of report and longlist downloads increased by 30%