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Tracey
Allison
Director –
Global Talent,
Avery Dennison
Tracey is responsible
for all professional
hiring including the
early career graduate
programme across
the Label, Graphic
and Materials
division globally for
Avery Dennison.
averydennison.com
ith operations in more than
50 countries and 29,000
employees worldwide, Avery
Dennison serves customers
in consumer packaging,
graphical display, logistics, apparel, industrial and
healthcare industries. Headquartered in Glendale,
California, the company reported sales of $6.1 bn
in 2016. It recruits around 7,000 people per year
across its divisions.
Over the past year, Avery Dennison has been
streamlining its talent acquisition and onboarding
processes through the implementation of
innovative cloud-based solutions using the
‘SmartRecruiters’ and ‘Silk Road’ platforms –
partnering with Alexander Mann Solutions’
consulting arm, Talent Collective, on selection and
implementation. For Director of Global Talent,
Tracey Allison, having a platform that facilitates
global collaboration and offers transparency over
the whole recruitment process is key to success.
Why did you want to transform
your recruitment system?
We had an outdated applicant tracking system
(ATS) that we’d been using for more than 11 years,
so we were in desperate need of an upgrade. The
system was extremely disparate with no single
visibility over applicant tracking. There was no
mobile optimisation, candidate experience was
poor; it was clunky and unfit for purpose.
So what was on your wish list?
“The only
way to
appeal to a
broader
audience is
through a
highly
integrated
modern
recruitment
platform”
We wanted global optimisation that could be
customised to fit local markets; an upgraded
candidate experience maximising social
recruitment to attract and engage diverse talent,
and ensure real-time data access and visibility for
our hiring managers, recruiters and candidates
throughout the whole recruitment experience.
Quite simply, we needed something that was
innovative, intuitive and interactive. We put out to
tender, and found that SmartRecruiters (the ATS)
and Silk Road (the onboarding system) ticked all
boxes. We partnered with Talent Collective to
provide system integration on implementation.
How did you build the business
case for implementation?
In 2015, our then recruitment system informed us
they were sunsetting. We knew we would have to
scope and select a new talent acquisition system.
Since we process almost 7,000 job requisitions
a year, we knew we had an opportunity to
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