Case Study  ·  Education

University Partnership

How Gordon Yates delivers over 1,700 exam support placements per year across 12 UK cities — with a 100% fill rate and an average response time of under 10 minutes.

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About the client

Our client is a successful, multi-national Education provider based in the UK. With tens of thousands of students sitting exams each year, they have a huge recruitment need for temporary support staff across the country. It is therefore essential to have a dependable recruitment partner who can deliver efficiently and at scale.

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What they needed

During peak periods, over 150 staff would be needed concurrently, across up to twelve cities throughout the UK - each of whom must be:

  • Qualified
  • DBS-checked
  • Sufficiently briefed and trained.

Varying working hours, role responsibilities and pay rates would also need to be meticulously tracked, implemented and communicated.

Given the business importance of the examinations to our client, round-the-clock support would be needed to deal with any unforeseen changes or dropouts, and to communicate these promptly to hiring managers, line managers, and backup temps, as appropriate.

How we delivered

1
Conduct year-round recruitment alongside rigorous compliance checks to ensure a consistent pool of qualified, DBS-checked temps are ready to deploy at short notice.
2
Build bespoke internal systems to effectively manage, amend and update hundreds of simultaneous bookings across 12 cities — including real-time communication of any changes to all relevant parties.
3
Hire and train dedicated internal support staff to guarantee exceptional service delivery — including round-the-clock availability during exam periods to handle unforeseen dropouts or changes.

Thank you as always. Gordon Yates always delivers and we very much appreciate EVERYTHING you do!

Operations Manager  ·  Education

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