The recruitment of driving personnel remains one of the central challenges for transport companies in the road freight sector. The logistics company Gebrüder Schröder from Ebernhahn has responded and implemented the recruitment platform Spedijobs – and reports significantly better response rates to job advertisements.
As the company reports, the use of the platform has proven itself in practice.
"The search for suitable personnel had become brutally difficult in the past five years. For some job advertisements, we didn't even receive an application," says Julius Altmann, assistant to management.
According
to Schröder, currently, an average of one advertisement and a few days of waiting time are enough to receive 35 to 40 applications, from which usually one to two hires can be derived.
The logistics company specializes in partial and hazardous goods loads as well as construction site logistics with truck-mounted forklifts. Despite economic fluctuations, demand is stable, but personnel recruitment has increasingly proven to be a bottleneck. Initial attempts through common online portals were largely unsuccessful according to the company. Only the introduction of Spedijobs made a noticeable
difference.
The platform, marketed by Inn-ovativ, is specifically tailored to transport and logistics companies. It promises that users can create professional job advertisements in just a few steps with the help of artificial intelligence. The translation into up to 13 languages and the distribution over more than 160 internet portals ensure reach. Companies can also integrate their own website – an aspect that Schröder also uses.
"The integration offers us the chance to bring more people to our website and thus give them a better impression of our company,"
explains Altmann.
This results in strategic flexibility for the company. If the need for personnel increases at short notice, Schröder can react quickly and place additional advertisements. The response has now become predictable – compared to earlier, when only two to four applications a year came through the company's own website.
From Schröder's perspective, it is clear: Digital solutions like Spedijobs are a practical way for medium-sized companies to actively address the driver shortage. The platform not only increases reach but also enables more targeted addressing of the target
