The UK and Ireland division of Tui Travel has achieved cost savings of 50 per cent through the implementation of software that streamlines recruitment processes.

The system, which has so far managed more than 22,000 online job applications, is also claimed to have reduced the administration time from job offer to contract from three weeks to 48 hours.

With the StepStone-supplied platform, candidates receive contracts through the travel group’s online careers site using an automated process. Since the implementation in November, the firm said it reduced the time spent in contract expedition for the 1,100 job offers it has made by 90 per cent.

“The quantitative results have been outstanding and we have witnessed significant time and cost savings in the first six months alone, but what these figures don’t show is how we have also managed to improve the quality of our hires,” said Sue Chatfield, head of resourcing and human resources at Tui UK and Ireland.

“We’ve had fewer candidates decline our offers as the system, as part of our overall recruitment strategy, has allowed us to move more quickly than anyone else,” she said.

“Some of our new recruits have said that they accepted the position because of the overall recruitment experience and the fact that we were the first to get back to them."