Case Study: University of Oxford Achieves 72% Reduction in Recruitment Advertising Costs with CoreHR

University of Oxford Reduce Recruitment Advertising Costs by 72% with CoreHR

The University of Oxford, a leading higher education institution with 12,500 employees, needed to replace a legacy HR system that relied on manual, paper-based processes and inconsistent, siloed HR and payroll workflows. To address these challenges, the university selected CoreHR, using solutions including Recruitment, Payroll, People Management, Business Intelligence, and HESA reporting.

CoreHR implemented a fully integrated HR, payroll, and recruitment platform that streamlined processes, improved data consistency, and enabled online recruitment through CoreRecruit and better reporting with CoreBI and CoreHESA. The results were significant: recruitment advertising costs fell by 72%, saving £560,000, while the university gained faster processing, more effective decision-making, and a single source of truth across departments.

University of Oxford

Anne Harkness

Head of HR Operations