Case Study: Baloise Group achieves 92%+ reduction in cost per hire and faster recruitment with Oracle Taleo Recruiting Cloud Service

Baloise Group Improves Recruitment, Lowers Cost per Hire by More Than 92%

Baloise Group, a Basel‑based European insurance and pensions provider with about 8,000 employees and operations across Switzerland, Belgium, Germany, Luxembourg and Liechtenstein, faced a tightening talent market, fragmented candidate communications, and the need to give 40+ HR users across countries an easy-to-use recruiting tool while cutting recruitment and IT maintenance costs. The company sought a cloud solution to reduce reliance on servers and external agencies and to increase transparency between HR and management.

By adopting Oracle Taleo Recruiting Cloud Service (part of Oracle HCM Cloud), Baloise streamlined candidate tracking, automated job notifications, and enabled social‑network integration to simplify applications. Results included faster hires and better candidate quality, a rise in hires from automated notifications to 7.3%, an increase in internal referral hires from 12.5% to 30%, a 92.3% reduction in cost per hire for corporate functions since 2007, and virtually zero internal IT maintenance for the recruiting platform.

Baloise Group

Jonas Jatsch

Senior Specialist Group HR Applications and Processes