Clive Hennessy, Client Success Manager at Ikiru People, has spoken with Shade Akerele, Non-Medical Recruitment Manager at Barts Health NHS Trust to ask how ISV.Online skills testing helps assess candidates. Please describe your organisation? Barts Health is one of the largest NHS trusts in the country, and one of Britain’s leading healthcare providers. The Barts Health group of NHS hospitals is entering an exciting new era on our improvement journey to becoming an outstanding organisation with a world-class clinical reputation. Having lifted ourselves out of special measures, we now have the impetus and breathing space to chart a fresh course in which we are continually striving to improve all our services for patients. Our vision is to be a high-performing group of NHS hospitals, renowned for excellence and innovation, and providing safe and compassionate care to our patients in east London and beyond. That means being a provider of excellent patient safety, known for delivering consistently high standards of harm-free care and always caring for patients in the right place at the right time. It also means being an outstanding place to work, in which our WeCare values and behaviours are visible to all and guide us in how we work together. We strive to live by our WeCare values and are committed to promoting inclusion, where every staff member has a sense of belonging. We value our differences and fully advocate, cultivate and support an inclusive working environment where staff treat one another with dignity and respect. We aim to create an equitable working environment where every individual can fulfil their potential. How well does the ISV.Online product work? ISV.Online testing works very well, for both the candidates and us as a Trust. How easy is the product to use? The product is easy to use and user friendly. How do you find the efficiency and the speed of ISV.Online? The efficiency and the speed are very reliable and fast. Has ISV.Online positively impacted your productivity and ability to assess people better? It has impacted the way we send out test to our candidates and the compiling of the result after the test is completed. Would you recommend ISV.Online to others? We will definitely recommend ISV.Online to others. ***** ISV.Online is the leading supplier of skills testing software and services to the UK Recruitment Industry. Used by 9 of the top 10 UK agencies, by number of offices, and 7 of the top 10, by revenue, ISV.Online offers candidate skills assessment and evaluation software and online training tools, allowing agencies and in-house HR/recruitment teams to validate the skills of potential candidates and existing employees across a wide range of areas.
