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Unique partnership set to transform social housing recruitment

Posted in Housing on the April 4th, 2007

A unique partnership set to transform the way in which talent is recruited into the social housing sector has been launched this week.

Six major social housing organisations have joined forces with top web based talent management technology providers, JGP (publishers of Jobsgopublic.com) to provide MyHousingCareer.com, a specialist jobsboard and career service for the social housing sector.

The launch partners are

Shelter - the housing and homeless charity;
Housing 21 - a major national provider of services for older people;
Genesis Housing Group – homes/services provider across London;
Estuary Housing Association – housing provider in Essex and London;
Homes for Islington - ALMO managing Islington’s rented/leasehold houses
The Notting Hill Housing Group – one of the UK’s largest housing associations

As well as improving service delivery and reducing time and cost per hire, the partnership will enable the housing sector to work collaboratively to develop new recruitment channels and strategies to bring in talented people from the private sector as well as attracting a more diverse workforce, from the BME community, people with disabilities and women – all currently under represented.

The strong collective employer brand will attract a greater flow of talent into the sector and by working together the various organisations can ensure that talented, yet currently unsuccessful candidates, can be nurtured for the future.

Will Fuller, Resourcing Manager for Housing 21 said: “By working collaboratively rather than competitively we can take advantage of economies of scale, can think more strategically and can be more innovative as an employer, sharing best practice and ideas for the benefit of the sector as a whole”.

“Working as a launch partner gives us the opportunity to raise our profile and enables us to have a better understanding of sector wide recruitment issues while using the jobsboard to find suitable solutions”, said Mark Keeble, Deputy Director of HR for Genesis Housing Group.

Jayne Hilditch, Director of Corporate services at Notting Hill is enthusiastic about the partnership. “Notting Hill is an ambitious organisation and we want the best staff to help us deliver our vision. This kind of co-operative Thinking Big is just what the sector needs. We want to nurture and promote talented people to benefit of the whole sector.”

The benefits of MyHousingCareer.com include:

On-line application forms
A daily vacancies e-mail to active jobseekers
Straightforward, accessible and user friendly processes
An automated candidate feedback facility and
Shorter recruitment timescales greatly enhancing efficiency and affordability

JGP’s Founder, Richard Tyrie said: “This unique partnership will enable us to address skills shortages in the social housing sector by sharing talent across organisational boundaries and developing talent pools. We will be able to modernise and streamline the recruitment process, reach a diverse audience and cut costs. A real win, win for all”.

Notes to editors

JGP has been working with the public and not-for-profit sectors helping them access wider and more diverse sources of jobseekers since 1998, with the fourth generation of the Jobsgopublic network attracting more than 600,000 jobseekers a month and listing more than 50,000 vacancies a year.

Starting life as a “jobs board”, JGP now provides web-based talent management solutions that help organisations attract, hire, develop and retain talented people at a fraction of the cost of using paper-driven processes and print-media advertising.

Since 1999, JGP has provided these services to more than 1000 public sector employers – the majority in local government.

Delivered in the spirit of collaboration and to support public sector agendas, JGP’s solutions promote efficiency, diversity, social inclusion, to enable citizen-centric self-service, to support work in regards the Data Protection Act, the DDA and web accessibility obligations, e-government principles and e-GIF requirements.

JGP’s technology enables organisations to operate faster, more transparently and much more affordably.

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