HR Management Platform for the Construction Industry

Project Background

The customer is a UK-based construction company which wanted to improve and automate paper-based and error-prone recruitment processes.

The customer started with transferring its recruitment to an external agency, which helped fill positions when a demand emerged. However, the whole process from placing a job vacancy to onboarding was ineffective, as it involved a lot of manual time-consuming work like collecting information about candidates or validating employee work hours.

The customer wanted to reduce both cost-per-hire and time-to-hire by launching a cloud-based HR platform which would accumulate resumes, apply the selected criteria during the approval process, and track the candidate’s current status.

Another challenge was to introduce regular reporting to measure and track performance of contracted construction workers.

The customer was searching to entrust the development of a custom HR full-cycle management platform to an experienced software development company with a proven track record of cloud-based projects and delivered BI solutions. Itexus impressed the customer with our portfolio and demonstrated skills in building complex SaaS platforms from scratch, and became the vendor of choice.

Modules and Panels

The delivered platform is built around three modules:

• Module 1

is dedicated to HR services and recruitment, and features a central repository for uploaded CVs. It is used to create a job offer, place it in the database, and receive an approval request for the selected candidates.

• Module 2

is used to accomplish onboarding.

• Module 3

allows the customer to allocate resources, monitor employee activity, and generate labor reports and timesheets.

The solution delivered by Itexus team supports 2 panels:

• Admin panel.

The client’s administrators govern user roles, and give out access to various system modules.

• Client panel.

Clients belong to different user groups – around 10 in the system, including Resource Provider, Job Creator, Supervisor, Job Approver, and so on – and perform an array of tasks depending on their access.

Results & Future Plans

The customer appreciated our team’s ability to deliver within harsh deadlines, especially when a demo version of a system was urgently needed for investors.

The system allows the customer to:

• Centralize and standardize recruitment, onboarding, and resource allocation processes.
• Enable automated report generation and report tracking.
• Minimize manual work and reduce employees’ efforts. This makes time allocation processes more transparent, and streamlines more efficient HR management processes.

Transparent communication between Itexus specialists and the client’s stakeholders ensured efficient resolution of any discrepancies in the requirements from SLAs.

While the team continues working on the platform, the customer is discussing the possibility to add new features to the solution, namely data collection from workers’ access cards, and automated invoice generation.