CO-IGNITION AND PLATFORM PEOPLEJUNE 2015 – SEPTEMBER 2015

GIANLUCA NOCENT@00382323

BUSINESS INNOVATION PROJECT - INTERNSHIP

Location: Rutherford House, Birchwood Park, Warrington (2 and ½ months internship)

Chadwick House, Birchwood Park, Warrington (last week internship)

Employees: 12 (3 Co-Ignition, 6 Platform People, 3 both)

Established in: July 2010 – February 2011 (Platform People) April 2015 (Co-Ignition)

Services: Online recruitment facilitator (Co-Ignition) Advisory, Financial Business Resourcing (Plat. People)

Location and general information

Mission: - Co-Ignition: change the shape of recruitment to better support companies wanting to employ new staff - Platform People: offer a very specialist, high standard consultancy/recruitment service to major financial services organisations.

Main Activities: - Co-Ignition: Platform development and promotion, marketing, database creation of employers and recruiters, market research, meetings

- Platform People: client pipeline creation, CV parsing industry research, marketing activity, social network, phone enquiries

Main Activities and Mission

How is recruitment generally?

Time demanding

Expensive

Complicated

Co-Ignition for Employers

Value Proposition

- Preferential online supply channel that joins employers and recruiters to facilitate resourcing

- Makes the research simpler and broader, based on best rating agencies able to provide the desirable level of quality

- Anonymity maintained until the company accepts to interact with a specific recruitment agent

- Traceability and integrity secured during the whole process to avoid any possible issue.

Co-Ignition Overview WHY

• Recruitment is:• too expensive• too long• wrong

candidates

HOW

• Passive candidates to be found

• Talent• Cultural fit

WHAT

• Global Crowdsourcing

• Talent platform• Free, fast and

better quality

Benefits- Able to fill permanent, temporary

and contract roles, potentially in any business sector, background, country or language

- Save cost: completely free from registration to publication of vacancies, pay only when you hire, refund or free replacement in case of failure

- Save time: Few minutes to create a vacancy, 19 days to fill a role on average

- Quality is ensured: work with the best agencies, pre-screen the candidates

Co-Ignition for Recruiters

Recruitment with Co-Ignition

Time Saving

Cheaper

Quality Candidates

Features and benefits:- Provide smart, effective solutions for financial services and

investment platform market- Advisory: helps improving market ability, reducing rework, accessing

to operational know-how and delivery expertise

- Resourcing: helps to find the right people, by fully understanding the market and knowing the talented individuals who operate in it

- Due Diligence: helping select the correct platform for your customers, the correct managerial figures to work with your company and ensuring Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) compliance

Platform People Overview

Working period: 23/6/2015 to 18/9/2015 (3-months internship) Every week from Tuesday to Thursday, from 9.15 to 17.15

Co-Ignition: Market Researcher (2 months)Tasks: - online research (employers and recruiters) - job board applications (Captain Co-Ignition)- data collection (spreadsheets, marketing campaign)- telemarketing and email marketing - marketing meetings (brainstorming, sum up)

Platform People: Candidates Screening (1 month) Tasks: - online research (candidates) - intranet database building - applicants sum up spreadsheet

My position and Tasks

Challenges• First experience in marketing and market research sectors• Opportunity to utilise my theoretical background and willingness to test my capabilities in a new environment

Lack of Experience

• Opportunity to work on a project and assist my co-workers in their job

• Provide support whenever I am needed and for whatever kind of activity

• Avoid any disruption or hindrance to my colleagues

Be reliable and trustable

• Afraid that lack of experience may affect my performances• Do what is required, to accomplish the best outcomes• Do appropriate research, tailored to the project and utilise the appropriate tools indicated by my more experienced colleagues

Achieve relevant results

Generic competences:- Be professional, creative, formal and simple- Organise my activities to a high standard- Set a timeline and daily goals to make my job easier and more satisfying

- Don’t be afraid of training or missing competences, this is natural at the beginning

- Learning by doing, as well as by observing

Business/marketing/market research competences:- Always keep a record of what I have done and achieved- Learned how important constant brainstorming is (start-up)

- Working environment has a totally different perspective than university, practical experience in running a business gives individual abilities that could not be studied

Learning Outcomes

Environment:- Amazing location- Nice, clean and modern office- All the necessary instruments are available and fully operational

Colleagues:- Well-trained and experienced- Friendly- Helpful- Respectful- Have confidence in my capabilities and assign me increasingly complex tasks

In this context, the work activity can only be performed to the best!

Organisation Evaluation

Co-Ignition: (corporate)

Platform People: - 407 new candidates added to the intranet from (individual) my research and their CVs parsed

- 90 existing candidates position and CVs updated on the intranet

Internship Results and Achievements

62 employers registered

39 recruiters registered

30 live vacancies on the platform

Start

23/676 employers registered

80 recruiters registered

55 live vacancies on the platform

2 successfully filled positions

End18/9

Make the marketing activity more varied to increase awareness and interest on the product

Try different kind of approaches to get clients’ attention

Train all staff members on both Co-Ignition and Platform People, so they can be movable in case of necessity and everybody can learn transferrable skills

Increase staff numbers by 1 or 2 units to attain more extensive results and more rapid growth

Call staff meetings more frequently for more face-to-face interaction, ideas collection/implementation and results summary (especially Co-Ignition)

Proposals and Recommendations

Platform People is a healthy business and Co-Ignition team has many good ideas for its future development

The results obtained during my internship have been

outstanding and my personal growth has been remarkable

It has been an experience which I would do again immediately

Conclusion

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