As a leading higher education institution, Abilene Christian University can receive hundreds of applications for its open roles. This meant the university’s Talent Management Specialist Samantha Adkins needed a streamlined recruitment solution to find the best candidates, faster. With PageUp, Adkins and her team have found a system that can handle high volumes of recruiting across faculty, students and staff with ease.
Multiple systems become one
With PageUp, Abilene Christian University has consolidated disparate systems and paper-based processes into an all-in-one solution that covers both faculty, student and staff recruitment. “Before we started with PageUp we had four different hiring systems on our campus,” Adkins explains. “We also had a faculty hiring process where documents were snail mailed in, so being able to put all that information into one system has been great.
Streamlining these processes has made recruitment more efficient and enjoyable for both applicants and people leaders at the university. “We have had some great feedback from all individuals and hiring managers involved,” Adkins says.
Finding the best candidate faster
In higher education, the volume of applicants for roles like adjunct positions can quickly become overwhelming. That’s why it’s crucial to have a system that cuts through the masses to find the best candidate. “Being able to gather more information on our adjunct hires has become very important. We have 200-300 applicants for some of those jobs and PageUp has made it really easy for our hiring managers to see that information,” Adkins says. “They’ve been so quick to praise the system and how wonderful PageUp is to work through.”
PageUp’s deep functionality gives Adkins and her team the chance to learn more about each applicant in the early stages of the hiring journey: a feature that’s proven popular at the university. “Hiring managers have loved the ability to ask an applicant specific questions. Being able to weed out some applicants quickly has been great,” Adkins says.
With you every step of the way
When it came time to introduce PageUp at the university, a side-by-side approach to implementation helped Adkins and her team realiserealize the full functionality of the system from day one. “PageUp were great at getting our initial thoughts on how we were currently using our systems, and where we wanted to get to in the end,” Adkins says. “Besides multiple phone calls and bi-weekly meetings, they came to campus and did a two-day deep dive, questioning us about ways we could implement PageUp in our systems.”
PageUp experts were with the Abilene University team at each step of the implementation journey, offering advice and encouragement. “They were wonderful at giving us praise. It was needed at times, and they were amazing at encouraging us,” Adkins says.
