SRV: Successfully completing mass recruitment of over 1000 applications – this is how it was done

To ensure they find the best professionals in the field and provide a positive candidate experience, SRV needed an efficient and modern recruitment system.

We talked with SRV’s HR Business Partners, Heidi Rinne and Stina Ampuja, about how TalentAdore Hire has helped them streamline recruitment and successfully manage over a thousand applicants.

Watch the full discussion on the video! (In Finnish)

The diverse recruitment of a major developer

In a large expert organization like SRV, recruitment is varied and continuous. Although the company is best known for its construction professionals, such as site managers, the house is also full of top experts from many other fields.

– We look for a wide variety of people. We have finance, lawyers, marketing and communications people, and us HR professionals – what we look for is quite broad,” says Stina Ampuja, HR Business Partner at SRV.

In the best years, there have been as many as two hundred open positions. The goal is always to find not only the most skilled person but also the one who best fits the company culture – and preferably quickly. This places special challenges on the efficiency of the process and the quality of the candidate experience.

“We recognized that we needed a proper system”

Before implementing TalentAdore Hire, SRV had no recruitment system at all. The process was managed through emails and various manual setups. As the HR team grew and recruitment volumes increased, the old way of working was no longer sustainable.

– When we didn’t have a system, we were reliant on email. We recognized that we needed a proper system, and from there we started to explore what was on the market,” says Stina Ampuja.

The decision tilted towards TalentAdore thanks to its professional sales process, convincing references, and the ATS’s clear and user-friendly interface. SRV was particularly pleased with how expertly the system enabled a humane and modern approach to recruitment.

Navigating huge masses of applicants requires a modern recruitment platform

“It would take two weeks of full days. That’s not an option these days.”

One of SRV’s biggest recruitment efforts is the annual trainee search, which attracts over 1,000 applications nationwide. Handling such a large number of applications without a functional system would be impossible.

– It would take two weeks of full days. There’s no time for that. That’s not an option these days,” Stina Ampuja laughs.

With TalentAdore Hire, the process has been kept under control. SRV utilizes the system’s versatile features, such as automations and tags, which allow applications to be automatically directed to the right managers. This saves a huge amount of time and ensures that managers can focus only on relevant applications.

– This makes the managers’ work easier. With automations, they only need to go through maybe 60–100 applications,” clarifies Heidi Rinne.

Artificial intelligence in the recruiter’s daily life: Efficiency and support from a partner

Artificial intelligence has also become a significant topic in recruitment. At SRV, the possibilities of AI are approached pragmatically: it is not expected to replace humans, but to act as an effective assistant in daily work.

The workday of an HR professional is varied, and there is not enough time to delve deeply into every technological innovation. That is why SRV trusts that partners, like TalentAdore, will integrate the benefits of AI directly into the system.

– In recruitment, it’s a big help that AI generates ready-made messages and text templates for us.

Efficiency in the application process is already enhanced by TalentAdore’s AI-assisted pre-screening, such as the AI Skills Matching feature, which helps find the most suitable candidates even from large pools of applicants. SRV appreciates the proactive approach of TalentAdore’s experts, which makes new AI-powered features familiar and easy to incorporate into their own processes.

A partnership that evolves: User-friendliness and continuous development at the core of the collaboration

“TalentAdore is constantly evolving and bringing new updates.”

The system’s user-friendliness is key to ensuring that everyone involved in the recruitment, especially the managers, can participate in the process seamlessly. However, a genuine, two-way partnership is just as important. SRV appreciates that the product is constantly evolving and that customers’ development wishes are also heard.

– TalentAdore is constantly evolving and bringing new updates, I like that,” Stina Ampuja summarizes.

The whole package is crowned by fast and expert support, which is always available. In addition to the excellence of the customer service, Heidi Rinne emphasizes the system’s versatility, which ensures its suitability for a wide range of organizations.

– Your system is very versatile. I believe it is suitable for many different types of recruitment and different kinds of organizations.

SRV as an employer

The passion and culture of doing things together that emerged in the interview stem from deep within SRV’s values, which create a sustainable foundation for all activities:

– Our values emphasize our most important way of working: asking and listening.

For us, collaboration is not just empty talk, but the starting point for everything with our own team, customers, and stakeholders. As stated in our values; it’s nice to work with us, our professional skills produce results, and our enthusiastic approach carries us far.

Are you interested in SRV as an employer? Get to know their culture and open positions on their career page.