Case studies

When the Norwegian Directorate of Public Construction and Property (Statsbygg) recruited Ola Melby as HR advisor, the directorate was already harboring ambitions for the quality of its in-house recruitment function to equal that of leading third-party providers.

“Top management has two stated objectives,” says Melby, “operational efficiency and completeness of delivery.” The same applies to the directorate's recruitment function.

To further its goal of an internal recruiting function able to compete with the best in the market, Statsbygg has opted to implement a Service Level Agreement (SLA).

The Norwegian Forest and Landscape Institute is a national institute under the Ministry of Agriculture and Food. It was formed in 2006 by the merger of the Norwegian Forest Research Institute and the Norwegian Institute of Land Inventory. The Institute provides the business community, the authorities and the general public with information in matters relating to the environment and commercial activity through research and the mapping of land resources. The Institute has about 230 employees, and its head office is in Ås in south-east Norway.

“After the merger one of our two HR advisers chose to leave, and it was decided not to replace that staff member. This is why we have the current situation, where 230 employees are served by just one HR officer,” explains Ulla Britt Wiig Kristensen, senior HR adviser.

Like other public sector entities, the Norwegian Directorate for Education and Training (Utdanningsdirektoratet) is required to comply with strict rules regarding the documentation of recruitment processes.

The seamless integration of ePhorte (a case-handling/archiving solution supplied by ErgoGroup) with WebCruiter has not only helped ensure that the directorate’s record-keeping complies with regulatory requirements, but has freed up valuable working time by introducing streamlined, problem-free systems.

Mesta is Norway’s largest road construction contracting group – with the country’s largest community of experts for the construction, operation and maintenance of roads. Mesta has nearly 3,000 employees nationwide who possess unique expertise in constructing roads around, under and over Norway’s mountains and fjords.

The group can trace its roots all the way back to the 1800s, and can lay claim to several generations’ experience in this line of work. Still, Mesta needs to continually attract new personnel and expertise, and fully intends to acquire our generation’s best minds in their specialties.

Per Olav Hagås is one of the Nestors of the Norwegian recruitment industry. As senior advisor for Manpower Professional Executive, and with many years' experience in the industry, he is one of Norway's leading authorities in recruitment. Hagås is also a member of the board of STN, the Norwegian certification council for the use of tests. Together with Det Norske Veritas (DNV), STN certifies both psychometric tests for use in recruitment and those who use these.

Manpower Professional Executive has been a client of WebCruiter since it was established as an independent company in 2003.

Working closely together with WebCruiter, Hagås has held important positions in a range of interesting international management evaluation projects and large-scale trainee programs.

He has been active in the industry long enough to value technological advances.

Norwegian recruitment agency Adecco Select doubled its production and wanted a better overview – to spend less time on administrative tasks, and more on selection.

In WebCruiter Professional they found a solution which gathered all information and all processes in one place, and which gave individual advisors full control over their own contracts.

Today director Guri Larsen concludes that Adecco Select benefits from a problem-free process which lets the organization focus on selection.