Applicant Management in the fashion and lifestyle world of New Yorker

New Yorker has more than 1000 stores in 40 countries, making it one of Europe's largest fashion businesses. Since opening its first branch in the northern German town of Flensburg in 1971, New Yorker has never looked back. By targeted investment in the future, it has not only created new jobs but has also developed into an international clothing company.

A staff of 16.000 – full-time and part-time – serves over 4 million paying customers each month. In contrast to the general trend, New Yorker has seen strong growth and continuously increased its profits in the last few years. This success can be attributed to effective market positioning and strong expansion in Europe. Its flat hierarchies enable New Yorker to be efficient and profitable in all sectors and realise the network principle in the company, providing the foundation for its stable and forward-looking development.

For Austria, headquartered in Vienna, the company was looking for a software solution to better manage the large number of applications and to optimize communication with the internal decision makers and the candidates themselves.

The web-based Applicant Management Software rexx Enterprise Recruitment  was able to convince with its tried and tested functions and the easy handling. Built-in features such as the form-writing system for mass mailings and scheduled cancellations as well as the easy way to create and edit job listings via the WYSIWYG editor, were just some of the points, the software solution from rexx systems was best suited to meet the requirements.

“Also considered subsequently the decision was absolutely right. Working with rexx systems made our processes in application management much easier.” 

Sandra Litschauer, New Yorker Austria KG

Rehau AG

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.

Sixt AG

Sixt is among Europe’s leading mobility service providers and is on a successful international expansion path. In 2010, a turnover of approx. 1.5 billion euros was achieved globally. Sixt leasing and rental stations for cars are found all over the world – in over one hundred countries.

Sixt offers far more than just short-term rental of business vehicles: from simple cars, to luxury vehicles including limousine services, a car for holidays, on through to trucks, be it rental, leasing or purchase – Sixt has the right offer for you!

Since 2007, rexx systems has been supporting the international expansion path. Today, job advertisements from the most important countries are offered in English, German, French, Spanish or Dutch in an international online job portal through rexx recruitment.

The rapid expansion of the global company required not only an e-Recruiting software that could be implemented internationally, but also individual support for the relevant national subsidiaries through experienced project managers. rexx systems had the advantage of internationally experienced personnel who supported the different countries optimally with regard to specific, national recruitment requirements and applicant management.

rexx systems already possessed great expertise in the specific industry of vehicle hire and leasing. With Europcar, also a globally active rexx customer, rexx systems already gained a great deal of know-how of applicant management in this industry. Even though Sixt and Europcar are fierce competitors, both companies benefit from the leading European recruitment software.

The fast international growth of Sixt was also evident in its recruitment process, of course. In order to make the filling of vacancies even more efficient, Sixt needed applicant management software that ensures the fast and professional handling of global recruitment processes in direct cooperation with station networks and specialist departments.

For this modern company, which also offers sophisticated e-commerce services in the mobility area, it was important to support the application process centrally with a well thought out and effective e-recruitment solution.

With rexx Enterprise Recruitment, Sixt now has the possibility to integrate all branches, directly and paperless, into the advertisement and applicant selection process. rexx controls and optimises the entire process, from the creation of a job advertisement to its publication via various channels (online, print, rexx job portal), the forwarding to the specialist superiors, organising and evaluating the interviews, on through to contract creation.

DAIICHI SANKYO

DAIICHI and SANKYO, two of Japan’s leading pharmaceutical companies, both of which look back on a long tradition in pharmaceutical research and development,  in 2006 joined forces in order to become a “global pharma innovator”.

With the merger of equals completed in 2006, two pharmaceutical companies consolidated that both have a century’s worth of history in visionary, innovative activity.

The resulting new corporation Daiichi-Sankyo has 18,400 employees worldwide, 1,700 of them in Europe. The European headquarters are located in Munich, Germany.

The introduction of the rexx recruitment software took place immediately after the merger – at first only in the European headquarters in Germany. Bit by bit, rexx is being implemented as the standard solution for applicant management in all European subsidiaries. Thus, French and Italian are also among the languages in the user guidance provided by rexx besides German and English.

All countries work in the same system – but they have independent workflows and country-specific adaptations (as so-called “tenants”). The best thing about this: in an increasingly international pharmaceutical industry, candidates can be connected with each other via the rexx pool of applicants with a click of the mouse – only with the applicants’ consent, of course.

The interfaces to international employment websites integrated into rexx, such as Monster, Stepstone or national and/or specialist job exchanges from the pharmaceutical industry, make the job advertisement process significantly easier.

Daiichi-Sankyo uses the rexx cloud service for the software: the application runs in the highly secure rexx systems computer centre. Both the international career portal and the backend for the processing of job advertisements and applications are easily accessible through a browser. The company therefore does not require any of their own IT resources for use of the application – this makes international roll-out simple and ensures great acceptance in the HR and specialist departments.