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Mining for talent
Global company IAMGOLD
strengthens its talent
acquisition capabilities
By Charles Doucot
h
aving most of your work-
ers spread around the
world can make recruit-
ment even more challenging
than usual. but one toronto-
based mining company simpli-
fied its efforts with help from
a talent acquisition software
provider.
IAMGOLD is a mid-tier mining
company with four operating gold
mines (including current joint
ventures) on three continents.
It employs a team of more than
5,000 workers globally, primarily
at operations in Canada, West Af-
rica and South America.
Prior to 2013, IAMGOLD
managed candidates and recruit-
ment processes manually, with
local HR staff in various countries
doing their best to facilitate the
talent acquisition needs of their
operation, and head office HR
staff working primarily with
search firms to fill expatriate
positions.
But in 2012, the company de-
termined it needed to strengthen
its talent acquisition capabilities
globally and it established four
business goals:
•Implement a standardized global
talent acquisition framework to
support talent policies, global
mobility and enable real-time
reporting. As a publicly held
company, this was very impor-
tant: Human resources had pre-
viously found it difficult to pro-
vide management with reporting
on its efforts.
•Establish a strong global sourcing
strategy that leverages multiple
sources, including social media
and commercial job boards, via
a single platform.
•Develop a global talent database
that enables sharing of talent
information across both conti-
nents and operations.
•Trim talent acquisition costs by
reducing the need to engage ex-
ternal recruitment firms.
IAMGOLD did a review of tal-
ent acquisition software suppliers
and selected Lumesse's Talent-
Link, a SaaS-based on-demand
global talent acquisition solution.
e product was available in 30
languages — including French,
English and Dutch — which the
company needed, and Lumesse
also understood the challenges
and complexities of having a
decentralized HR function and
having users in several countries.
The TalentLink team also
offered a rapid deployment with
an implementation phase of 12
weeks and its solution was easy
to implement, configure and use.
The latter was crucial because
IAMGOLD doesn't have a large
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Prior to 2013, the company managed
recruitment processes manually.
