Administration, Recessions and Recruitment Software
Recessions pose difficult operational issues for recruitment
businesses as not only does the fee income come down as demand falls, but the
amount of effort needed to secure fee income increases. And instead of resources being focused on
developing relationships with the all important clients, and securing vacancies, an increasing proportion of time and effort is spent searching for
‘needles in haystacks’ as the sheer volume of CVs received greatly increases.
Recruitment Software and CV's
And you cannot switch off these CVs coming in as althoughyou will only place a very small proportion of them, you do not know whichones. And you want to build yourdatabase of candidates during a recession so that when the market picks up youcan respond quickly and capitalise on the most favourable market conditions arecruitment business can enjoy – increasing demand, plenty of supply, and lesscompetition.
Managing CV's
In the past there have two approaches to managing thisproblem:
1. Throw all the CVs into a folder and searchthrough them all when a vacancy arrives. This usually means that although thereis no effort needed to file the CVs, searching and reviewing them takes a verylong time and delays the submission of the best shortlist.
2. Read all the CVs and select the few you want tokeep and enter these into a database so that precise matching is very fast andstrong shortlists can be quickly prepared. This means that a lot of work isdone when the CVs are received.
Technology has supported these processes but not fundamentallychanged them, as they require a lot of manual intervention - either on the wayin or on the way out.
A Recruitment Software Solution
Neither of these approaches are ideal and neither of themengage the people with the greatest vested interest in obtaining a placement –the job seeker. This is the firstrecession when the majority of job seekers will use the Internet to find jobs,and submit their CVs, and provides them with the tools to submit hundreds ofcopies of their CV, rather than just a handful. And as this recession is global the volume of CVs will increase hugely.
MyRecruitment.net Web Based Recruitment Software
MyRecruitment.Net has been developed to solve this problemas it automates the handling of all CVs received electronically, irrespectiveof source, and automatically matches candidates to vacancies, creates ashortlist, and enables this to be forwarded to the client with minimal effortas quickly as possible. It achieves thisby engaging the job seeker in the process by providing self-service facilitiesin your own web site with minimal effort – validate their data and confirmapplication to vacancies, and track progress.
And by building this database during the recession byproviding a service to your candidates, you will be in an ideal position toincrease placements when demand increases without substantially increasingstaff.
MyRecruitment .Net is provided as a fully managed servicethat requires no IT expertise or resource and can be integrated into yourexisting infrastructure to deliver a joined up end-to-end solution, not just another discrete applicationalongside many others.