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Driving Business Agility: UOB Accelerates Hiring Success with LinkedIn’s Hiring Assistant
Results delivered
Accelerated Hiring and Cost Savings
Hiring Assistant helped UOB fill critical roles faster with more cost efficiencies, strengthening their direct sourcing capabilities while continuing to work with agency partners as part of their overall sourcing strategy.
Improved Agility and Productivity
The Talent Acquisition team achieved greater adaptability to evolving business requirements, with the Hiring Assistant facilitating more effective candidate sourcing and allowing additional focus on strategic priorities.
Strategic Integration and Partnership
The Recruiter System Connect (RSC) integration with Workday provided visibility into talent sources, reinforcing LinkedIn as UOB’s primary channel and strengthening the strategic partnership for future connected projects.
challenges
Scaling Talent Acquisition Amidst Market Volatility
UOB’s talent acquisition (TA) team faced mounting pressures in a rapidly shifting hiring landscape. Post-pandemic, the organization experienced a surge in hiring, expanding the TA team from 15 to 35 members. With the organisation’s needs evolving and hiring patterns changing over time, the talent acquisition team saw a timely opportunity to modernise their recruitment model. Rather than relying on traditional, labour‑intensive processes, Jay Chan, Head of Talent Acquisition, UOB, led efforts to explore solutions that could elevate candidate quality, shorten time‑to‑fill and better support UOB’s future operating model.
How LinkedIn helped
Leveraging Hiring Assistant for Strategic Sourcing
UOB’s leadership recognized the need for a more agile and scalable approach to talent acquisition. UOB’s integrations with Workday, via LinkedIn Recruiter System Connect (RSC), empowered them with a seamless workflow, better candidate tracking, and resulted not only in time savings but enabled them to identify LinkedIn as the primary source of talent. Building upon RSC’s foundation, Hiring Assistant takes it further with its AI-driven candidate sourcing, feedback loops, that allowed UOB’s talent acquisition team to identify, engage, and hire top talent.
A defining moment came when Jay posted a critical role to two external recruitment agencies and simultaneously searched with Hiring Assistant. While agencies contributed to the search, the final hire was identified through Hiring Assistant, which proved especially effective in matching their specific requirements.
UOB is a leading bank in Asia. Operating through its head office in Singapore and banking subsidiaries in China, Indonesia, Malaysia, Thailand and Vietnam, UOB has a global network of more than 470 branches and offices in 19 markets in Asia Pacific, Europe and North America. Since its incorporation in 1935, UOB has grown organically and through a series of strategic acquisitions. Today, UOB is rated among the world’s top banks: Aa1 by Moody’s Investors Service and AA- by both S&P Global Ratings and Fitch Ratings.
For nine decades, UOB has adopted a customer-centric approach to create long-term value by staying relevant through its enterprising spirit and doing right by its customers. UOB is focused on building the future of ASEAN – for the people and businesses within, and connecting with, ASEAN.
The Bank connects businesses to opportunities in the region with its unparalleled regional footprint and leverages data and insights to innovate and create personalised banking experiences and solutions catering to each customer’s unique needs and evolving preferences. UOB is also committed to help businesses forge a sustainable future, by fostering social inclusiveness, creating positive environmental impact and pursuing economic progress. UOB believes in being a responsible financial services provider and is steadfast in its support of art, social development of children and education, doing right by its communities and stakeholders.
Industry
Banking
No. of Employees
10,0001+ employees
Headquarters
Singapore