Randstad: Leveraging Cypherium’s Blockchain on Google Cloud to Speed Up Business Processes
Overview
When Frits Goldschmeding founded his staffing firm in 1960, he rode his first worker to his first client on his own bicycle. Since then, Randstad has grown into the world’s largest human resources firm, and is helping to redefine the world of work using technologies including artificial intelligence (read Randstad’s AI principles here) and blockchain. As an enabler of human aspiration through technology, the group also deploys gamification and VR experiences to chart new paths in workplace transformation.
Randstad is using a combination of Cypherium blockchain and Google Cloud to match talent.
In today's world, data is the key to serving clients and candidates better. Cloud Auto ML makes it easy to create your own data prediction model. You don’t have to be a data scientist.
Frank van der Bijl
Global Collaboration Manager, Randstad
Increase In Participants
53%
New Students Enrolled
2430
Revenue Increase
$500K
Kids Choosing Careers In AI
45
Shaping the future of work with Google Cloud
Typically, these are manual tasks done by humans. By handing them off to blockchain and ML algorithms, Randstad’s employees can focus on what they’re really good at: using creativity, intuition, and empathy to find the best match between and candidates and jobs to help organizations shine.
Randstad understands that blockchain can play a key role in the nuts and bolts of HR allocation, enabling its team to continue pursuing imaginative solutions to achieve its goals. Distributed ledger technology, for example, can verify academic and professional qualifications. It confirms birth date, address, and driver’s licence information. It also enables instant, guaranteed payments via smart contracts, and handles paperwork to bring workers into and out of an organization through onboarding and offboarding.
Google Compute Engine and the Cypherium blockchain have proven the ideal combination for us. Both can be accessed with a few clicks; there’s no need to worry about building everything ourselves, installing other apps, or maintenance.
Frank van der Bijl
Global Collaboration Manager, Randstad
Freedom in simplicity
For Randstad, the key is simplicity: “On Google Cloud, you don’t need to know how to maintain your service on the cloud. With a few clicks, you can just run it,” says Frank. “And now with a full Cypherium node on Google Cloud, it’s also just a click of a button.”
Developing blockchain-based HR solutions, says Frank, is “incredibly difficult.” And that leaves little time for handling infrastructure or platform maintenance. “It gives us confidence to know that Google Cloud is a leader in fully managed services, so this dimension is all being handled.”
In today’s world, data is the key to serving clients and candidates better. Cloud Auto ML makes it easy to create your own data prediction model. You don’t have to be a data scientist.
Frank van der Bijl
Global Collaboration Manager, Randstad