Graduate Advantage
Graduate Advantage is an organisation with a clear goal and an attitude to match. They wanted a fully encompasing system that would not only allow them to provide graduates with a fantastic placement service, but would also allow employers to get the best skills for the positions they have available.
Their existing system was old and did not have all of the functions required to fully meet the requirements of their new remit. As a funded organisation, they had to have full measurement of their targets to ensure they place the right skills. The new BOS (Back Office System) has all of this and more.
But there was a problem. An interim site was needed that would allow them to begin managing their graduate applications immediately. With incredibly short timescales to work with, we got to work and provided a basic site that met the initial needs of the organisation quickly. Even so, within a few weeks over a thousand graduates had signed up to the new site and it was soon providing a steady stream of graduate hungry for the best placements.
The new site, to be launched in October, will enable graduates to take control of their own applications and job searching with automated job alerts, application updates and placement history. It really is a fully-featured job searching portal.
The new Back Office System gives an unparalleled amount of control over graduate applications and company placements. Through an intuitive and easy to use interface, they are able to alter the status of applications from shorlist to interview, manage their meetings with employers and provide critical feedback and measurement statistics instantly.
Nicola Turner, project Manager at Graduate Advantage said:
"Andy Calloway came in to develop a specification for a new website and CRM system. Working with Andy was really easy and he took a lot of time to understand us and our quirks before offering us some different solutions appropriate to our needs. One of the best things he did was conduct a team meeting using Edward de Bono's red hat thinking to tease out our exact wish list. His approach was very customer oriented - the team immediately took to him and before long he felt like one of us. Nothing was too much trouble but he told it like it was so we had a very realistic view of how feasible some of our requests would be in terms of time and money.
Calloway Green has created a system for us for a fraction of the cost of our previous supplier. That system outshines its predecessor in every way: it is intuitive and matches our needs exactly; it incorporates new technology and is very user friendly. It has simplified the processes we use and shaved time off our admin procedures. The development has been incredibly smooth with Andy and his team talking to us the whole way through, daily at some points. Deadlines have been mutually agreed, and timescales have been met. Communication has been terrific and the inevitable problems on a project like this have been solved together. It has truly felt like we have worked as one big team rather than two organisations with different goals."
