Coal-fired power plant Drax Power has agreed a contract with Bond International to use its online recruitment and talent management software solution Bond Talent.

The deal will see Bond Talent provide an online recruitment web portal and applicant tracking system, ahead of proposed construction of Drax’s new biomass-fired power plants.

Richard Neville, head of HR at Drax Power, says: “We are intending to develop three biomass-fired power plants from 2011 onwards, each of which will employ a substantial number of contractors during the three-and-a-half year construction phase and a direct operational workforce after that. 

“In order to ensure that we are sufficiently resourced, we are planning to set up a talent pool through Bond Talent that will enable us to store details of suitable applicants who contact us in the meantime. The resulting self-sufficiency the talent pool will afford us will allow us to reduce our dependency on recruitment advertising, and thereby reduce our costs by as much as 40%.”