Delivering a better employee experience

03 Apr 2019

An update on the Employee Lifecycle Project from Karen Heaton, Director of Human Resources

The Employee Lifecycle Project (ELP) is to focus on delivering enhancements to JobTrain, our existing recruitment system, after it was concluded that a proposed new recruitment system would not provide a better experience for staff and managers.

The decision was recently taken by the ELP Board, which also agreed to a range of improvements to the recruitment process identified through the business process review, and through running employee representative workshops. This will include the introduction of automatic data entry from candidates’ CVs, known as parsing, to reduce the time taken to complete applications and improve their experience.

The overall aim of ELP is to deliver simpler, faster and more joined up systems that will enhance our employee experience, by maximising the use of technology and improving our current HR processes.

Changes are being delivered in stages and we are aiming to introduce new systems and working practices from summer 2019. Early improvements will still include: a fully online expenses process in the new financial year; the roll out of Manager Self Service to simplify everyday tasks, including online approvals for processes currently delivered by the Post and Contract Management form; and online on-boarding, the process by which new employees complete a checklist of activities as part of their introduction to the University from the point of job offer.

We’ve set up dedicated pages on StaffNet to keep everyone updated on the progress of the project. If you have any questions about ELP, please don’t hesitate to contact the project team.

ELP StaffNet: https://www.staffnet.manchester.ac.uk/elp/