Case Study: Hitachi Consulting achieves $1M in referral-cost savings and doubles employee referral rate with Oracle Taleo (Oracle)

Hitachi Consulting Improves Recruiting Through Social Sourcing, Saves US$1 Million in Referral Costs in First Year with a Cloud-Based Solution

Hitachi Consulting, the strategic business‑consulting arm of Hitachi Ltd. based in Dallas with more than 5,000 employees, supports clients across industries including 130 of the Fortune 500. The firm needed to improve recruitment and human‑capital management by better understanding talent movement, building critical talent pools, using social media to source skilled IT and consulting professionals, and eliminating manual, paper‑based referral and onboarding processes.

Hitachi implemented Oracle Taleo Recruiting, Onboarding, and Social Sourcing cloud services to automate sourcing, referrals and onboarding, create a single candidate repository, and enable targeted social recruiting campaigns. In the first year the solution saved more than US$1 million in referral costs, doubled employee referral rates from 17% to 35%, improved referral quality and time‑to‑onboard, and provided scalable, real‑time visibility to continuously optimize recruiting efforts.

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