How AtkinsRéalis Uses A Skills-based Approach To Secure Talent That Drives World-Changing Innovations

AtkinsRéalis is an $8.6B engineering organization, connecting people, data and technology to transform the world’s infrastructure and energy systems. Powered by a deep team of consultants, designers, and engineers, AtkinsRéalis supports global industry partners and clients with complex projects that focus on sustainability and innovation.

Challenge

AtkinsRéalis’ mission is to improve the way all people are housed, connected, powered, and protected requires sourcing scarce talent from across the globe. To achieve this aspiration, AtkinsRéalis needed to compete in highly competitive talent markets, something they were not equipped to do. 

Decentralized talent data and difficulties with cross-functional collaboration resulted in inefficiencies across the employee talent acquisition journey. These challenges complicated candidate engagement: it was nearly impossible to track candidate interactions and what, if any, action was taken to secure critical talent. Furthermore, highly manual tasks and processes exhausted the resources of the talent team.

Additionally, without the right data or processes, AtkinsRéalis was struggling to meet its commitment to hiring a diverse workforce reflective of the communities it serves.

“Before integrating Beamery into our recruitment process, we faced several challenges, and one of them was inefficient candidate tracking. The next one was limited candidate engagement, and the last one was challenges in diversity hiring.” – Shijo Thomas, Global Talent Sourcing Manager, AtkinsRéalis

Approach

To address these challenges, AtkinsRéalis recognized it must revolutionize its approach to talent acquisition and create a more modern, connected, and skills-based talent journey. AtkinsRéalis selected Beamery and its AI-powered platform as a partner to deliver the necessary transformation and seamlessly integrate into the existing Workday platform. 

“Transitioning to a skills-based hiring model… allows us to evaluate candidates based on their abilities and potential rather than just their past job titles or degrees. It aligns with our commitment to diversity and inclusion by reducing unconscious biases and broadening our talent pool.” – Shijo Thomas

AtkinsRéalis has integrated Beamery’s solutions into every facet of their talent acquisition process. By automating many of their workflows, the team has streamlined the hiring process, freed up time to focus on more strategic tasks, and also ensured more consistent candidate engagement. They can now segment “passive” candidates and add them to relevant pools, ready to nurture for future roles with targeted campaigns – automatically. 

“Beamery’s platform has enhanced collaboration within our talent team and across departments located in different parts of the world by providing a unified view of Talent Pools. Recruiters, hiring managers, and department heads can now seamlessly share candidate information and feedback, leading to more informed decision-making and alignment on hiring needs.” – Shijo Thomas

On top of that, AtkinsRéalis established a “Beamery-first” approach: they created a United Kingdom center of excellence for Beamery best practices, focused on educating and inspiring professionals throughout the company to utilize Beamery to find, hire and retain the highest quality talent.

Beamery Solutions

• Campaigns
• Events
• Candidate Profiles
• Talent CRM
• Exec Search

Impact

Successful integration with Beamery transformed AtkinsRéalis’ approach to talent, enabling a true, skills-based approach. Improvements to hiring yielded stronger employee performance, better candidate engagement, and substantial gains in efficiency.

“Beamery has helped us in our strategic implementation of innovative talent acquisition strategies. The skills-based hiring approach has transformed our recruitment process, leading to significant improvements in efficiency and our decision making.” – Shijo Thomas

The skills-based approach Beamery facilitates has also improved the quality of hires, with new hires sourced through Beamery achieving their performance milestones 25% faster than non-Beamery sourced hires. 

Results

• 30% reduction in time to identify best-fit candidates
• 40% increase in candidate engagement scores, driven by more personalized communications
• 4.6x higher conversion rate to interviews, for Beamery-sourced candidates 
• 25% increase in performance for Beamery-sourced hires vs non-Beamery hires 

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