Create one-best-way recruitment processes in your Council
Our open platform Candidate Management System and expertise support you in attracting the very best people for local government roles.
We’re the go-to recruitment technology provider for local government
Over 60 local government organisations throughout Australia and New Zealand trust our recruitment technology to power their talent attraction strategy.
Our Candidate Management System, Scout Talent: Recruit, can be tailored to your local government’s recruitment needs.
Find out more about what Scout Talent: Recruit can do for you.
- Collaborate with your team – Conduct panel recruitment and work with multiple hiring managers with ease.
- Save time – Create customisable requisition and approval workflows. Use automation to screen candidates more efficiently. Integrate critical data with your other important business systems.
- Extend your reach – Post recruitment advertisements to multiple channels, including local government job boards, with the click of a button.
- Get support when and how you need it – Access on-demand recruitment services to supplement your team and resources.
- Attract top candidates – Find the right people with the behavioural attributes that suit your culture and brand
- Conduct efficient shortlisting & selection – Include job-specific screening questions to identify high-quality applicants
- Collaborate with your team – Our system is uncomplicated and easy to use, so you receive more applicants.
- Access Scout Talent anywhere – Our cloud-based solution can be used on Macs, PCs, tablets, and mobile.
“[Scout Talent] is very innovative and user-friendly – from both a candidate and administrative perspective. Our hiring managers love it! They can shortlist anytime, anywhere. It gives us a lot of flexibility, enables us to work collaboratively and saves us time.”
Some of our valued partners
What Tweed Shire Council has to say...
“The [Scout Talent] system has the user in mind, and that’s so essential when you’re a recruiter. It’s really evident from a user perspective, as a recruiter, that there has been input and design from recruiters.”
– Jacinta Weir, Senior HR Officer,Tweed Shire Council
Our products
:Recruit
Transform your local government recruitment processes with :Recruit
Attract and secure the best talent with :Recruit, the top-rated Candidate Management System.
Use screening questions in your recruitment advertisements, and rate applications to quickly determine your top candidates.
Send your recruitment advertisements live on various job boards simultaneously.
We custom-build recruitment web pages with your branding to let your employer brand shine.
:Engage
Build a strong talent pipeline with :Engage
A proactive recruitment solution to build and nurture talent pools.
Search and segment candidates based on skills, experience, location and more. Create custom talent pools using selection criteria to reach the right people with the right message.
Send branded recruitment marketing content to nurture your talent pool and keep them engaged with your employer brand.
70% of the talent market is not actively looking for roles! :Engage enables you to connect with people who have expressed an interest in joining your Council.
“It makes your job as an employer so much easier”
:Onboard
Reduce administration and increase conversion rates for new hires with :Onboard
Digital contract creation that makes onboarding new employees quick and effortless
Electronic signatures removes the barriers to acceptance, so candidates can sign anywhere, any time
Use your branded custom-built templates to easily create and send digital contracts, offers and other onboarding documentation.
Scout Learning
Train your team online, the best way, through Scout Learning
The largest range of courses in the world from the best content providers, a click away.
Gain access to over 170 000 of online training courses from all industries, topics and disciplines.
Create tailored onboarding programs so your new team members hit the ground running. Offer professional development and upskill your existing teams with the latest training materials.
Access ongoing training that meets your legal obligations and ensures compliance to legislation and safety.
Get in touch with our local government specialist
Michael Petselas
Business Development Manager
07 3330 2595
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:Recruit
Attract and secure top talent with Scout Talent’s :Recruit, a leading Applicant Tracking System, and Recruitment CRM. With :Recruit, your talent acquisition activities instanyly become more productive.
:Engage
:Engage is a recruitment marketing and talent pipelining module that allows you to keep candidates engaged. Build and nurture talent pools, strengthen your employer brand, and recruit passive candidates with the :Engage module.
:Onboard
:Onboard is a digital contract creation solution that makes onboarding new employees quick and effortless. Streamline the onboarding process with automated email templates that populate with candidate data, and the ability to export data for your payroll system.