Company Background:
Microsoft is a global software company, motivated and inspired by how their customers use their software to find creative solutions to business problems, develop breakthrough ideas, and stay connected to what's most important to them.
Challenge:
In order to design, development, and deliver their solutions, Microsoft needs to have high quality personnel around the world. Microsoft has adopted a global sourcing strategy to identify and engage high quality passive candidates, creating relationship with them as they look for potential future employees.
Finding the right passive candidate without the right tools can be challenging enough. Given the nature and size of the organization, this means identifying and connecting with people on a mass, global scale which can be daunting and extremely time consuming.
Solution:
Microsoft turned to Broadlook to find the most effective ways to target, capture, and integrate passive candidates’ information to execute their strategy on a global scale. One key component of the strategy included tapping into the most popular social media and networking sites on the Internet.
Based on their needs, Broadlook identified a solution that included Eclipse as a key capability within the Broadlook Suite. Eclipse provided the scalability Microsoft was looking for to take on their strategy, automating much of their research and capturing the critical information needed.
Results:
The Broadlook Solution has had a profound impact for Microsoft. “Before the Broadlook Suite, the global sourcing efforts on our team were done manually,” said Alex Pedregon. “Instead of a project being measured in days, weeks, and even months before, our initiatives now are measured in minutes and hours.”
The business impact for Microsoft started with making the e effort to tap the vast information of the Internet practical and manageable. “The process before the Broadlook Suite was painful, time consuming, and expensive,” said Alex. “If you are sourcing at the scale we are, Broadlook’s capabilities are indispensible. It does not make sense to do it any other way.”
