Case Study: WakeMed achieves 50% faster time-to-hire and streamlined onboarding with PeopleFluent Talent Engagement Cloud

WakeMed Finds a Cure for their Talent Acquisition Ailments

WakeMed Health & Hospitals, a Raleigh, NC–based health system with 800+ beds and thousands of clinical and support staff, faced a talent acquisition inflection point after its recruiting vendor was acquired. The organization needed a flexible, sophisticated recruitment and onboarding strategy to manage hundreds of candidates and multiple unique workflows (including volunteers and college programs), improve candidate communications and experience, and reduce recruiter workload.

WakeMed implemented PeopleFluent’s Talent Engagement Cloud—including the Recruitment Management System and Onboarding—to automate workflows, enable custom configurations, and deliver analytics-driven visibility. The solution streamlined volunteer and new-hire onboarding via a branded portal, improved recruiter–hiring manager collaboration, and drove measurable results: a 50% reduction in time-to-hire for key roles, a 30% reduction in overall time-to-fill (61 to 43 days), and a more efficient, engaging onboarding experience.

WakeMed

Anna Baird Hensley

Director of Employment