Client Story: Early Careers Evolution: How Horsefly Transformed University Recruitment Strategy for a UK Research Institute

A UK Research Institute partnered with Horsefly Analytics to transform their early careers recruitment strategy, optimizing university engagement and talent pipeline development for specialized technical and estates roles.

The Situation  

• Needed to enhance university recruitment strategy

• Required better targeting for specialized roles (mechanical, electrical, software engineering)

• Faced challenges in building surveying position recruitment

• Lacked optimization in career fair selection

• Needed improved alignment with specific skill requirements

Horsefly Delivered 

• Comprehensive university program analysis

• Curriculum alignment mapping across UK universities

• Graduate output data analysis

• Identification of overlooked institutions

• Data-backed career fair recommendations

Horsefly's data transformed our early careers strategy. We discovered valuable new university partnerships we hadn't considered before, particularly for our estates team. The platform's insights gave us the confidence to expand our recruitment channels and optimize our career fair investments.

- Early Careers Manager 

The Impact 

• Expanded reach through new university partnerships

• Improved career fair targeting based on curriculum alignment

• Optimized recruitment resource allocation

• Created new talent channels for hard-to-fill roles

• Enhanced technical talent pipeline development

• Discovered specialized building surveying program sources