Applicant management for a globally-active company

As a premium brand for polymer-based solutions, REHAU is an international leader in the areas of construction, automotive and industry with core competencies in materials and system development in surface engineering.

The growth of the innovative company is based on state-of-the-art solutions. For example, Rehau provides leading systems for construction in the areas of energy efficiency, regenerative energy or in efficient rainwater management. With around 15,000 employees in over 170 sites, Rehau is among the world’s most important providers in the synthetic materials industry and has subsidiaries all over the globe, e.g. in all Western European countries, in Eastern Europe, USA, Asia, China and Russia.

The Group required an applicant management software that maps the complex international and corporate structure individually and specific to the respective country for each subsidiary company. To ensure acceptance in the subsidiaries abroad, the most important precondition was support of the relevant national language and the specific national features of recruiting and application processes.

With rexx Enterprise Recruitment by rexx systems, the Hamburg specialist for application management and e-recruiting, a flexible software is now deployed company-wide, which optimally fulfils the requirements of the Rehau headquarters and the international subsidiaries.

Besides the software itself, the support through rexx systems consultants in international project management was also of great significance for the international roll-out. Here, rexx was able to impress with its internationally experienced project managers, who also possessed well-founded process know-how in applicant management.

The applicant management software not only ensures seamless internal processes, but also externally – on the applicant side – the software-supported application process guarantees excellent employer branding. Relationship management, the close link during the selection process, as well as fast and transparent processes are all important building blocks for successful recruiting. Rehau can thus assert itself vis-à-vis companies such as Siemens, E.ON, General Electric or Fujitsu when it comes to personnel recruitment of engineers who are in high demand.