How Occumi Can Help Your Business To Recruit Diverse Talent

Recruit Diverse Talent…

The Right Way

Occumi is a unique algorithm based recruitment system that filters applicants applying for graduate and junior positions by identifying their transferable skills. Our algorithm helps employers easily highlight the right applicant with the skills required for the role. Occumi’s skills-based approach helps to make recruitment more diverse by ensuring that every applicant has their skills accurately represented, regardless of their background or socio-economic status.

The skills you want,

the applicants you need

Occumi’s algorithm uses information about applicants work experience and education to identify every applicants top 5 transferable skills. These skills are then displayed in a skills chart that allows employers to easily view the existing strengths of the applicant.

Focus on what they’re good at,

not where they’re from.

Occumi looks to level the playing field in the recruitment of young talent. Our skills-based process highlights those with the skills suited to the role, regardless of their background. Not only does this ensure that applicants suited to the role are being hired, it also means that there is an increased chance of a more diverse intake into graduate and junior positions.

Aside from being right morally, increasing diversity makes business sense. The Centre for Economics and Business Research found that the UK’s most diverse workplaces are 45% more likely to financially outperform their industry average than the least diverse firms. This is largely due to the different perspectives, and ideas that a diverse workforce brings to a business.

Overall the McGregor-Smith government report (2017) calculated the benefit of having a representative workforce at an additional £24bn a year to the UK economy.

Highlighting the best talent,

Saving you time and money

2017 saw a 10% increase in graduate applications, this figure is set to rise for 2018. We

understand that more applications means more time and money spent on recruitment resources when assessing CVs and applications.

Occumi helps to solve this problem by filtering applications and CVs by skills. We highlight the ideal applicants for the role quickly, without compromising on talent.

This is unlike existing applicant tracking systems which tend to filter based on keywords, which means ideal applicants are often overlooked.

The

Perfect Match

Occumi’s unique focus on transferable skills means that you can easily identify which applicant has the right skills for your vacancy.

The AGR development survey showed that 20% of those in a graduate role leave within the first year.

This percentage is a problem for companies, as although research has shown that millennials are more likely to move roles, it is within companies interest to retain as many young people as possible in order to recuperate the cost of training them.

It is generally accepted that utilising someone’s skills leads to higher job satisfaction. Therefore, picking the graduate with the right set of skills for the role will increase the probability of that graduate staying in the role, meaning the company is more likely to benefit.