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How we recruited an IT Project Manager

About the client

Our client is Australia’s pioneering manufacturer of heavy-duty seat covers with over 35 years of manufacturing experience. They are a family-run business, with values that are fundamental to the overall success of their business and provides a foundation for the way they serve their customers and how they work.

  • Location - Forrestdale, WA
  • Industry - upholstery
  • Size - 30 employees

We applied our three-phase service delivery model for this recruitment drive.

About the client

Video job advertisement

Social media algorithms prioritise video content over still images, so we produce video advertisements for all vacancies to enhance our candidate sourcing efforts.

By leveraging this unique and highly effective approach, we aim to connect with the right candidates at the right time.

We share our videos on LinkedIn, and Facebook, posting them 10-20 times based on relevance. Typically, our videos receive over 1,000 views within the first 24 hours.



Job advertisement

We continually refresh, rewrite, and reformat our job advertisements to ensure we receive high-quality applications. Our strategy is proactive, with approximately 20 advertisements posted for each permanent job. These advertisements are shared across:

  • Job boards - Seek, Adzuna, Glassdoor, Indeed and Jora
  • Social media - LinkedIn, Facebook and Twitter
  • 11 Recruitment's website

On average, our advertisements receive over 100 applications and significantly outperform the market benchmark for Seek, shown in this graph.


IT Project Manager

  • Must have strong IT applications/ systems project delivery experience
  • Dynamic, innovative, supportive team
  • Competitive Remuneration Package

ABOUT THE ROLE

Responsibilities include (but are not limited to):

  • Coordinating internal colleagues and external resources in the analysis, design, construction, testing, deployment and production support of business and technology solutions 
  • Planning and managing allocated systems analysis, development and maintenance projects 
  • Determining operational objectives and requirements by studying business functions, facilitating workshops, gathering information and evaluating output requirements and formats
  • Translating high-level business concepts to specific technical work plans for development teams 
  • Providing technical support to internal stakeholders regarding systems liaising with vendors as required 
  • Liaise with system users, and providing advice on a range of information technology options to address business requirements

ABOUT YOU

To be successful in this role, you will need to have a degree in Business Information Systems (IS), Computer Science or a related field, or have equivalent IT experience.

The successful candidate will need to have considerable experience in IT business analysis of complex projects, with sensitivity and commitment to business problem-solving.

The candidate should also be able to translate business requirements into detailed technical instructions. Given this role will involve working with people across the organisation, the successful candidate must be a team player and be able to work collaboratively with others across all levels of a business.

The successful applicant will also need to meet the following requirements:

  • Strong negotiation and influencing skills
  • Knowledge of client contract requirements (incl. variations) 
  • Willing to undergo a pre-employment medical assessment and drug tests

ABOUT THE CLIENT

Our client is a family-run business and their values are fundamental to the success they've achieved throughout the past 35 years. They are Australia's pioneering manufacturer of heavy-duty products. Their manufacturing office is based in Forestdale, with parking available on site.


Assessment Matrix design

Our custom-designed, in-house software generates an Assessment Matrix, serving as the blueprint for our recruitment process. This process includes screening, interviews, document verification, skills testing, personality profiling, and reference checks.

The Assessment Matrix marks the stage at which each criterion is addressed, with the most critical criteria being checked multiple times throughout the recruitment process.


Selection criteria

Screen

Interview

Docs.

Profiling

Refs.

Education






Business Information Systems (IS), Computer Science or a related field, or have equivalent related IT experience.



Experience






Previous hands on project management experience essential



Strong ICT experience



Proven experience of successfully completed similar projects



Database administration and query building (e.g. MySQL or SQL)



Experience in SharePoint /Azure



Excellent stakeholder engagement



Strong influencing and negotiation skills



MS Office 365 & Applications



Able to translate business concepts to specific technical workplans for development teams



IT business analysis of complex projects, with sensitivity and commitment to business problem solving



Coordinate internal colleagues and external resources on the analysis, design, construction, testing, deployment and production support of business and technology solutions



Previous experience in SME environment



Other






Work location – Forrestdale



Verify LinkedIn CV vs CV submitted



Minimum salary range ($115k plus super)



Previous warning of termination?



Will you pass a drug test?



Behaviour






Dominance - 65%




Influence - 32%




Steadiness - 27%




Compliance - 69%




Forms signed






Health / police check





Signed document - tell the truth





Docs verified






Driver’s licence




Citizen AU / NZ or PR




Medical Check




Probity Check




DISC profiling

Just like people, jobs have their own behavioral profiles based on duties, environment, and communication. For every job vacancy, we create a profile that allows us to match an applicant's behavior to the specific role.

We utilise the DISC assessment, which examines the following attributes:

  • Dominance - accomplishing results, the bottom line, confidence
  • Influence - persuading others, openness, dependability
  • Steadiness - cooperation, sincerity, dependability
  • Compliance - quality, accuracy, expertise

DISC profile - IT Project Manager

IT Project Manager

Shortlisted candidates

Candidate A

Candidate B

Candidate C

Behavioural adaptation by candidates to match the job profile:

Candidate A

Candidate B

Candidate C


Results

Our aim is to produce a strong shortlist by sourcing widely. We measure every stage in our recruitment process to ensure we meet this key objective.

Our service comes with an extended 18-month replacement guarantee. This guarantee means our interests are mutually aligned - to recruit high achievers who will excel and stay.


Video views

1,145


Applications received

25


Interviewed by 11 Recruitment

4


Shortlisted

2


Interviewed by client

2


Hired

1


Christian Madsen | Managing Director

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