Extensive search helps Peopleclick land at McDonalds

I alluded in my post about McDonalds career site that they would be implementing Peopleclick as their chosen ATS.  Well, I received the following e-mail direct from Peopleclick themselves confirming my point.

"Today Peopleclick has announced that McDonald's UK has selected Peopleclick's high volume hiring technology for use in its over 1,200 UK-based restaurants which employ over 67,000 employees.

Based on a rigorous search, McDonald's selected Peopleclick based on its ability to implement a constant sourcing model for the company's hires as well as offering a fully scalable solution for all types of hiring (full time, contract and hourly)."

I do of course have a few comments to make!

The full press release is here.

Download mcdonalds_release_aug_07.pdf.

The following excerpts had me smiling though.

"After many months of research and selection, McDonald’s UK is choosing Peopleclick for its store management and crew recruitment process."

Jez Langhorn, employee reputation manger with McDonald’s Restaurants Limited, said;

“Peopleclick is the only talent acquisition organization able to provide a comprehensive solution for the management of the entire workforce of an organization of this size."

So, many months of research and selection.  Having spoke to most of the major UK ATS vendors, not one is aware that they were involved in the selection process - although maybe they were not quite being truthful or maybe they didn't know!!

Peopleclick being the ONLY ATS that can meet their needs - Jez, not sure what your employee reputation is but with statements like the above you may not have best reputation in the e-recruitment World!  Although I'm sure you were put up to saying that by the lovely Peopleclick crowd.

Now I'm sure Peopleclick have a very good system but these press releases really need to stop from any of the vendors. 

Leading this, biggest that, fastest, cheapest, smartest..... it's all a load of crap   Only when it comes to implementation does the client get to know what the vendor is really like and how good the system really is.  And of course, unless they use it they won't get great results anyway regardless of how good it may be; then again, software vendors don't generally worry too much about results - only sales!

Good luck McDonalds, either way you've done the right thing (buying an ATS) but that's the easy bit!!