CERN e-recruitment project goes live on iCams

Following an extensive review of e-recruitment solutions, and final selection of iCams from HazelWeb Systems, CERN has now switched on its e-recruitment site.

CERN, the world''s leading fundamental physics research centre, is known as the place ''where the web was born'', since it was there that Tim Berners-Lee defined the HTTP protocol and developed the first ever web server and browser. Eager to exploit the web to its fullest, CERN decided that it was time to move its recruitment operations to the internet.

After a competitive tender issued to the 20 Member States that participate in CERN''s funding, and extensive evaluation of potential solutions, CERN selected HazelWeb Systems'' iCams product. Franois Briard, CERN''s E-recruitment Project Manager commented We were really impressed by the high flexibility and completeness of HazelWeb''s solution..

After a brief but thorough test programme, CERN has now implemented iCams to manage its Technical and Doctoral Student programme as a pilot project before migrating its entire Staff and Fellowship recruitment programmes to iCams. CERN has got very specific needs as there are various recruitment programmes, each of them having its own application form. HazelWeb has been able to develop in a short time a highly flexible system to help us in defining all our different application forms and easing candidates'' input. Added to that, we have received top quality support from HazelWeb, all of our requests and questions being addressed and solved in a very short time. We are now waiting for the last specific development: an internal distribution system which will help us to easily dispatch the 6,000 application forms received annually at CERN., said Briard.

Commenting on the success of the CERN implementation, HazelWeb''s CEO, Jeremy Ovenden, said Naturally I am delighted that CERN selected iCams over the competition. This really serves to strengthen HazelWeb''s position as a specialist e-recruitment supplier to high-visibility employers, providing software that does exactly what it is promised to do.


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