Brooks Timber and Building Supplies Ltd is one of the leading Timber and Builders Merchants in Ireland, with 7 branches nationwide, Dublin, Cork, Galway, Sligo and Midlands. Brooks employ 150 staff.

The Challenge

All the way back to 2014, each branch took responsibility for local advertising and sourcing of employees, using different systems, suppliers, and processes. Mark Lohan, Brook’s Managing Director wanted to uniform and streamline the recruitment process under one roof to create efficiencies and high-performance standardisation of all recruitment processes.

Branch Managers were losing time to focus on core business activities, a recruitment partner would be needed to help change this and supply Brooks with a national recruitment strategy. FRS Recruitment were selected as a supplier to deliver this change.

Solution

FRS Recruitment visited each branch and local manager to better understand company culture, values and the Brooks brand as presented by each location. With the view to supporting local needs but streamlining and making overall hiring more efficient and successful.

FRS Recruitment, with 10 branches across Ireland put in place a national recruitment and job advertising campaign to meet the needs of every branch under one roof. 

Brooks partnered with FRS Recruitment exclusively and the success of this continues to include

• Reductions in local advertising and recruitment costs due to the cutting out of spend across numerous suppliers per branch
• More choice and a higher quality of candidate at interviewing stage due to FRS Recruitment’s understand of the Brooks company culture and dynamic
• The recruitment process is now streamlined and fully measured
• Increase in overall productivity due to improved time management in every location

Looking to add new talent to your organisation? Email us on info@frsrecruitment.com