Utilities & Waste Management Applicant Tracking System

Leading Utilities & Waste Management companies trust Eploy

Key Features for Utilities & Waste Hiring

Whether you are recruiting for hard to find talent, need to nurture talent to remain competitive in the market, or simply require customisable hiring workflows and smooth onboarding, you’ll find Eploy to be the most adaptable talent acquisition technology that consistently delivers the results you de can flex and evolve your recruitment process.

Talent Pools

Creating Resilient Workforces for Future Needs

Recruitment CRM ► Build lasting relationships with candidates
Talent Pools & Skills Library ► Access a reservoir of skilled professionals
Intelligent Job Alerts ► Keep potential hires engaged and informed
Email & SMS Marketing ► Sustain communication, reduce hiring time
Feedback Surveys ► Gather insights to refine recruitment approach

Eploy aids in cultivating talent pools for Utilities and Waste Management, ensuring a consistent supply of qualified professionals for evolving sector demands.

Candidate Assessments

Improving Hire Quality for Utilities and Waste Management

Assessment Form Builder ► Tailor assessments for precise candidate evaluation
Scoring & Grading ► Standardise and objectify candidate assessments
Video Interviewing ► Conduct in-depth assessments remotely
Application Screening & Pre-screening ► Identify top talent efficiently
Structured & Panel Reviewing ► Facilitate collaborative hiring decisions

Eploy enhances candidate assessment in Utilities and Waste Management, ensuring high-quality hires that align with sector-specific requirements and standards.

Ensuring Compliance

Maintaining High Standards of Regulatory Adherence

Right-to-Work Checking Integration ► Verify candidate eligibility swiftly
Multi-Level GDPR Consent Management ► Uphold data protection standards
Audit Trail ► Enhance transparency in recruitment activities
Data Retention Policies ► Control candidate information responsibly
Compliance Document Management ► Organise essential documents systematically

With Eploy, Utilities recruitment meets stringent compliance demands, reducing legal risks and upholding industry regulations and standards.

Optimising Onboarding

Seamless Integration of Staff into Critical Roles

Customisable Onboarding Processes ► Personalise onboarding for role effectiveness
Electronic Signatures ► Expedite documentation and compliance
Compliance Document Management ► Maintain vital legal records efficiently
Self-service Candidate Portal ► Empower new hires with accessible information
Secure Data Collection ► Ensure data privacy and security

Eploy streamlines onboarding in Utilities and Waste Management, enhancing the transition of new staff into crucial roles, thus boosting productivity from the start.

Volume Recruitment

Efficiently Addressing Large-Scale Hiring Demands

Advanced Search & Filtering ► Precisely identify suitable candidates
Automated Email & SMS Marketing ► Enhance engagement and response rates
Job Posting and Distribution ► Widen candidate reach effectively
Drag-and-Drop Pipelines ► Simplify candidate progression tracking
Configurable Hiring Workflows ► Adapt processes to sector needs

Eploy accelerates recruitment in Utilities, handling high-volume demands with ease. It improves candidate throughput and reduces vacancy periods, ensuring efficient operations.

Eploy FAQs

Frequently asked questions about how Utilities & Waste Management organisations can benefit from an Applicant Tracking System.

An ATS for utilities and waste management companies is a recruitment system that helps energy providers, water companies, and waste services streamline hiring, manage applications, and attract qualified candidates.

An ATS automates job postings, filters candidates by skills and certifications, tracks applications, streamlines interview scheduling, centralises communication and creates an exceptional onboarding experience. This makes recruitment faster, easier and more efficient for everyone involved, from application to onboarding. Whether you need name-blind applications, a multilingual solution, multiple workflows, or specific requirements on your careers site for multiple brands or business functions, Eploy's ATS can deliver.

An ATS can filter candidates by certifications, experience, and technical skills to ensure qualified hires for operational roles in the utility sector, which is affected by the scarcity of qualified candidates. Utilising ATS features, such as talent pools, allows in-house recruiters to keep skilled candidates warm and engaged for future opportunities. The use of employee referrals also helps utility & waste organisations source high-quality talent that is more likely to stay longer.

Absolutely, an ATS, such as Eploy, can equip recruiters to streamline and manage recruitment across multiple offices, plants, or depots from one central system. This ensures consistency in the hiring process, from application to onboarding, nationally. You can also manage recruitment for drivers, collection operatives, recycling coordinators, plant operators and support roles using agile recruitment technology designed for you.

Employee Referrals are one of the top ways to attract quality talent. When a business hires a candidate from an employee referral, it directly indicates that employees working in the company are happy with their work, and they believe highly in the company’s culture.

With Eploy talent acquisition teams can run employee referral programmes, offer bounties and track the source of the candidates. It’s easy for employees to share available roles using email and their social networks.

Yes, Eploy is used for many kinds of recruitment in the Utilities & Waste Sector. And because we know each business is different, our features allow for an agile approach so you can flex and evolve your recruitment process. Whether you need name-blind applications, a multilingual solution, multiple workflows, or specific requirements on your careers site for multiple brands or business functions, we understand it's your recruitment process, so we can do things your way.

Eploy integrates with HMRS, Accounts & Payroll systems as well as leading background screening & checking providers, to name a few!

With the Eploy API, you can connect the tools you use daily to our talent acquisition platform and deliver amazing experiences for everyone involved in the recruitment journey. Eploy's API enables customers and partners to build custom apps and enhancements to Eploy's Talent Acquisition platform.

We have a Partner Marketplace so you can extend your recruitment capability faster and smarter.

We solve the challenges of Utilities & Waste Management Sector talent acquisition

Recruitment in the Utilities & Waste Management Sector comes with unique challenges. These can be addressed by understanding the most effective candidate sourcing channels for the sector and anticipating potential changes in hiring levels throughout the year. Eploy helps Utilities Sector recruiters tackle these challenges and streamline their recruitment processes to achieve the results they need.

What channels do recruiters in the Energy/Utilities sector use for sourcing candidates?

Organisations in the Energy/Utilities sector find a good mix of candidates on Professional Social Networks, such as LinkedIn (100%). Website/Careers Sites are also a popular sourcing channel, utilised by 92% of in-house recruiters in the sector.

83% of Energy/Utilities sector organisations turn to agencies for help in filling their vacancies, which has increased from the prior year (60%). Although this channel can help with difficult-to-fill vacancies, it affects the company’s cost of hire.

Source: 2025 UK Candidate Attraction Survey

Which sourcing channels work best in the Energy/Utilities Sector?

When we look at how the Energy/Utilities Sector is succeeding with talent attraction, the Sourcing Quadrant paints an interesting picture. Specialist Job Boards and LinkedIn both attract a great balance of candidate quality and quantity. In-house recruitment teams can also attract skilled candidates through Employee Referrals; however, it offers a much smaller candidate pool.

Talent Pools/ATS/CRM also performs greatly in candidate quality and quantity, but is only utilised by 50% of recruitment teams in the Energy/Utilities sector. An untapped opportunity!

Source: 2025 UK Candidate Attraction Survey

Levels of hiring in the Energy/Utilities sector for the next 12 months

In the Energy/Utilities sector, the levels of hiring in the next 12 months are expected to increase according to 42% of respondents, with 33% expecting no change and 25% citing that hiring levels will drop. The anticipated change in recruitment marketing budgets doesn’t align with the growing hiring levels, with only 25% expecting an increase and 58% anticipating no change to the budgets, meaning recruiters will have to do more with less.

When sourcing candidates, it is important that there are simple, streamlined tools that allow for recruitment on the go for all those involved. That's why, with Eploy - as well as getting an award-winning Energy/Utilities Applicant Tracking System, you get a dedicated hiring manager portal that's so easy to use your hiring managers will actually enjoy recruiting with it!

Energy/Utilities hiring challenges

Understanding the Energy/Utilities hiring challenges helps to put in place ways to address them. Candidate Scarcity and limitations related to hybrid/flexible work are the top two challenges.

Candidate Sourcing in the sector is also affected by the location of the organisation, as cited by 50% of candidates. Recruitment in a candidate-scarce market, also affected by location restraints, can be difficult. Having access to recruitment data can help recruitment teams better understand which sourcing channels perform best, allowing them to focus their efforts on the most fruitful talent acquisition activities.

What channels do recruiters in the Energy/Utilities sector use for sourcing candidates?
Finding talent
Which sourcing channels work best in the Energy/Utilities Sector?
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Levels of hiring in the Energy/Utilities sector for the next 12 months
Do more with less
Energy/Utilities hiring challenges
Solving hard problems

Here's what Utilities & Waste Management recruitment teams are saying about Eploy

''Outstanding, I love the service and people we work with at Eploy. There is always someone available quickly and nothing is too much trouble. We are invited to events, making us feel part of a wider group of valued clients, as well as opportunity to attend seminars, meet peers and network. Our website runs really well, candidates, vendors and hiring mangers are always pleased with the portals and really easy to use. Overall I think Eploy understand us as a business, and the challenges we face. I learn something new from every interaction, and always good to hear of the new features and improvements. Thank you to all at Eploy for taking such good care of us!''
Anna AndersonTalent Attraction Partner
‘’Eploy continues to support our growth as a business. It allows the freedom and flexibility to customise fields, forms and candidate journeys. The success team are very quick to respond to requests, and if it is not possible, it's noted for future developments. We have not long completed a rebrand exercise, and having the ability to refresh our careers site and build new features was fantastic.‘’
Jordan NairnTalent Acquisition Specialist
''Eploy is highly customisable, even after implementation. We’ve been able to adapt it continually to meet the ever-changing needs of our business. Whenever we’ve encountered a challenge, raising a ticket with the support team has resulted in a prompt, detailed, and genuinely helpful response. I cannot speak highly enough of the Eploy team; their commitment to doing a great job, investigating thoroughly, and delivering the right solution is outstanding. I’ve worked with several ATS platforms, and while many share the same core functionality, Eploy truly stands out because of its exceptional support and its built-in reporting and dashboards, which are far superior to others I’ve used.''
Steven JeffersHead of Recruitment