With over 10,000 employees in more than 100 countries, HAVI is one of the leading logistics service providers in system catering. And yet the company is facing major challenges that many companies know only too well in the area of blue collar recruiting. Whether it's the regional search for skilled workers or high-volume recruiting — attracting qualified applicants requires creativity.
HAVI is known for its familial relationship, flat hierarchies and strong customer orientation. The company is regarded as an attractive employer with a strong focus on a trusting working environment and a wide range of development opportunities. In other words, the best conditions for attracting the best talent on the job market.
Challenges in focus
The logistics sector is highly competitive when it comes to recruiting industrial/technical specialists. In 2023 alone, 1.93 million blue-collar jobs were vacant!1 This situation is also noticeable for HAVI. The company has identified some potential in recruiting and employer branding. This includes adapted personnel planning, an optimised employer branding strategy and the search for the right recruitment channels for blue collar positions.
HAVI is faced with the task of generating applicants in sparsely populated areas and at the same time filtering out suitable candidates from the wide range of applicants in metropolitan areas. In addition, the food logistics sector is still traditionally male-dominated, which makes it even more difficult to recruit women. There are also specific regional challenges, as HAVI is not widely known as an employer in every region, which makes it even more difficult to attract qualified talent.
Many challenges, one career page
For HAVI, the key to success was a new recruiting strategy, which included not only setting up an internal recruiting team, but also the redesign of its own tailor-made career page, which enabled applicants to be addressed in a targeted manner.
HAVI's previous career page was linked to the company's global website and offered little room for manoeuvre at country level. The original career sector was barely able to integrate multimedia content for employer branding and established little regional connection between the positions. The data quality was also not optimal.
In order to improve commercial recruiting on a local level in particular, HAVI decided to implement the Talentsconnect JobShop. By building this career page, which is based on an online shopping experience, candidates can intuitively navigate to their suitable job or, thanks to Google for Jobs optimization, land directly on the appropriate job ad in HAVis JobShop with one click and apply. The JobShop has thus become the central point of contact for job seekers and is now the core of the targeted channel mix of online and offline channels as well as peer recruiting measures. The freedom of design and the ability to integrate multimedia content, such as videos, also helped to increase the attractiveness of the employer's presence and improve visibility in relevant recruitment channels. With the WhatsApp application, HAVI is optimally prepared for the needs of the target group of Blue Collar employees and provides applicants with a quick and easy application process that also looks good from a smartphone.
And the best of all: HAVI Germany can plan new recruiting measures based on key figures. With an extensive data dashboard in the JobShop Recruiting Home, various KPIs for job families, individual job ads, channel performance and many other data points can be viewed and interpreted based on benchmarks. This allows HAVI to make targeted decisions when approaching industrial/technical talent and implement them itself in no time at all.
Results and successes
The introduction of the JobShop was a decisive step for HAVI to stand out from recruiting in the blue collar sector and reach talent that they could not reach before. While many applications used to be received by post or email, the new career page makes it easier and more efficient to apply.
As a result, the company was able to achieve a significant increase in the number of applicants and the quality of applications. On the new career site, an average of 22% of all users apply, while the time spent by users averages 4 minutes and 49 seconds — both of which are above average figures.
In addition, over 7,403 users were registered on the site in the first year after the introduction of the JobShop — a huge success for HAVI. It is particularly noteworthy that the majority of these users reach HAVI's JobShop organically via SEO, Google Organic and a targeted social media presence.
Thanks to the independent career site for HAVI Germany, recruiting is now fully focused on the German market. In combination with the integration of a new ATS, HAVI was able to gain comprehensive insight into target group data and thus effectively optimize the recruiting strategy.
With these requirements, HAVI built up a valuable talent pool. Through additional employer branding and recruiting measures, better communication and applicant organization, the company was able to collect applications throughout the year and thus build up a pool of qualified candidates that they can quickly access at any time.
The new recruiting strategy led to greater visibility and authenticity of HAVI as an employer. This was a decisive step towards attracting the wide range of blue collar talent in the logistics sector and making recruiting successful in the long term.
Havi's strategy for success and outlook
For HAVI, the JobShop is an important component in the recruitment strategy. Its intuitive user interface and clarity make it easy for both Blue Collar and White Collar applicants to find relevant information and apply easily.
In the future, the company plans to integrate further modules and content to make the career page even more attractive and user-friendly. The involvement of employees in content development is planned for the coming years. It is intended to help generate content that is specifically tailored to the needs and interests of the Blue Collar target group and thus further strengthen loyalty and identification with the company.
HAVI has set new standards in blue collar recruiting with the JobShop. Despite regional and gender-specific challenges, the company has proven that remarkable success can be achieved with an innovative recruiting strategy and a revised career page. An increase in the number of applicants, a higher quality of applications and improved visibility as an attractive employer are just some of the results. With a valuable talent pool behind it, HAVI is ready to continue to deliver top performance in recruiting and establish itself as a leading logistics service provider.
Marianne Bock quote
“The introduction of talentsconnect's JobShop was an important step for us to optimize our career page and improve our target group approach. We appreciate the collaboration and are confident that we will be able to attract even more Blue Collar talent with further improvements.”
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