Donovan Group

With more than 60 years of experience in the industry, Donovan Group has expanded from its first site in Whangārei and now has teams based in Auckland, Sydney and the Philippines. Given how quickly Donovan Group was growing, Katie knew that the company needed to streamline its manual, paper-based HR procedures, especially when it came to recruiting talent.

“We were on a growth path,” Katie explains. “And with the amount of new roles that I could see coming through the business, and knowing what our resourcing was like, I needed software to streamline those manual processes.

“When we started looking at options, we could have just gone for a recruitment tool. But rather than just stopping there, we decided to go for something that could offer us solutions across a wide range of HR aspects.”

For a rapidly growing business such as Donovan Group, it was important to invest in an HRIS that would fit their current needs but also support their future expansion.

“I knew the piece of software we invested in now was going to need to sustain the business for a long period of time,” Katie says. “The software was going to need to scale up and change and adapt as the company grew.”

Another reason for needing a cloud-based HRIS was to give all employees the same experience, regardless of their role or where they are located.

On top of this, many of Donovan Group’s employees work on-site. “Most of our manufacturing team don’t have desk-bound roles,” explains Katie. “So getting information to them was challenging, and it was difficult for them to access policies and forms.”

What Donovan Group needed was a cloud-based, modular HRIS that could eliminate the need for paper-based processes, provide easier access to a growing global team, and evolve with the company’s future growth.