Taylor Corporation Makes Candidates Feel Like Family with Jobvite CHALLENGE SOLUTION RESULTS Ramping up hiring Jobvite platform More hires at lower cost Taylor is one of the largest privately The company tapped into Jobvite With Jobvite, Taylor tapped held companies in the United Hire, Refer, and Text to get the into employee referrals and an States, and needed a better way to word out about Taylor, make it improved mobile experience to hire source, attract, and hire talented easier for job seekers to apply, and more qualified workers at a faster workers for its family of 80+ improve the candidate experiences pace, while also reducing its overall businesses to thrive. throughout the hiring funnel. recruitment marketing spend. Made up of 80+ businesses, Taylor Corporation is one of the Taylor meets Jobvite largest family-owned companies in the United States. For more Taylor Corporation turned to Jobvite’s innovative suite of recruiting than 40 years, Taylor has helped some of the world’s most tools to bolster their mobile recruiting efforts, drive more referrals, recognizable brands market their products with its premier and improve the overall candidate experience. According interactive, printing, and marketing services. As you can to Carter, Jobvite’s simple mobile applications and texting imagine, powering Taylor’s extended family of businesses (while functionality have been a huge boon for the company. maintaining its people-centered values, purpose, and mission) is no easy feat — and the company’s hiring team needed an “Nearly two-thirds of our hires work in manufacturing, and not at a innovative, all-in-one recruiting tool that was up for the challenge. desk,” said Carter. “So, they don’t have access to a computer every day, but they do have their smartphone with them.” Family matters Family-owned since 1975, Taylor believes that at the heart With Jobvite Text, Taylor has dramatically improved the candidate of every outstanding company are ambitious and motivated experience by sending them more frequent updates on their people. Now one of the largest graphics communications application status, coordinating start dates seamlessly, and entities in North America, continuing to find great talent for the keeping them informed throughout the hiring process. Carter organization as it scales has proven to be a serious challenge. said this has worked in tandem with Jobvite Refer to capitalize on the number of new referrals coming to them through the Jobvite “For every company today, hiring is becoming more and more platform. difficult,” said Derek Carter, Talent Acquisition Director at Taylor. “We knew we needed to get smarter about our recruiting efforts, “We’re seeing a distinct spike in referrals compared to previous and embrace innovative technologies to make the hiring process years thanks to Jobvite,” said Carter. “In combination with better for both candidates and ourselves.” our mobile-optimized applications and improved candidate experience, we’ve been able to bring on more qualified workers, According to Carter, the candidate experience is paramount and at a faster rate.” today, and Taylor needed a proven way to encourage more referrals, simplify the overall application process, and create more touch-points with candidates – in order to make them feel We’re seeing a distinct spike in like family from day one. referrals compared to previous years thanks to Jobvite – Derek Carter, Talent Acquisition Director at Taylor Everybody loves Taylor About Taylor With Jobvite, Taylor has been able to dramatically increase its Taylor Corporation, one of the largest privately held companies number of referrals year-over-year. According to Carter, being in the United States, provides innovative products, technologies able to tap into their existing employee networks has led to and services that focus on the evolving communication needs more quality hires, faster time-to-fill, and reduced spending on of more than half of the FORTUNE 500 companies, thousands recruitment marketing. of smaller businesses, and their millions of customers around the world. With more than 80 domestic and foreign subsidiaries “We’re achieving a higher return-on-investment and improving and 9,000 employees, Taylor is recognized as one of the top our hiring numbers with Jobvite,” said Carter. “We’ve decreased three graphics communications companies in North America, LinkedIn spend by 90% over the years. That’s huge dollar savings delivering what matters most to its customers. thanks to Jobvite Refer, which has been effective and much easier to use.” About Jobvite But Taylor isn’t finished yet. Carter said that the company hopes Jobvite is leading the next wave of recruitment innovation with to further improve the candidate experience with the addition of Continuous Candidate Engagement (CCE), a candidate-centric video interviews and chatbots in the coming months. recruiting model that helps companies engage candidates with meaningful experiences at the right time, in the right way, from “There is nothing worse than applying, and then not hearing first look to first day. The Jobvite Platform infuses automation anything from the company,” explained Carter. “Jobvite’s chatbot and intelligence into today’s expanded recruiting cycle to feature keeps candidates engaged as they move through the increase the speed, quality, and cost-effectiveness of talent application process. This truly improves their experiences and acquisition. Focused exclusively on recruiting software since shows we care, without adding more work for our busy teams.” 2006 and headquartered in San Mateo, Jobvite has thousands of customers including LinkedIn, Schneider Electric, Premise Keeping things personalized is core to Taylor’s family-operated Health, Zappos.com, and Blizzard Entertainment. To learn more, mission — and thanks to Jobvite — they’re making every visit www.jobvite.com or follow us @Jobvite. candidate today feel like family. CONNECT WITH US www.jobvite.com [email protected] www.facebook.com/jobvite www.twitter.com/jobvite www.linkedin.com/company/jobvite.