Choosing the right recruitment software for your business

Choosing recruitment software is one of the most important decisions any professional recruitment agency makes.

A good recruitment system should be designed to free up the recruiter from mundane administrative tasks. It should provide tools for users to maximise business development activities, and it should provide a means for the business to report effectively on individuals’ key activity areas.

A number of reasons drive the decision to review available systems and suppliers:

  • New business start-up
  • Existing business with no current system in place
  • Current system lacks newly-required functionality to cater for evolving business processes
  • Performance of current system, or supplier, hinders the main activities of the business

The last two are the most common. They generally result from a tendency by recruitment businesses to see recruitment software as a “necessary evil”, and to fail to put into place any proper planning or strategy in the selection process. Often, the pressures on the business to make a replacement are very strong at this point, and companies make decisions against a backdrop of needing to get something done quickly. Inevitably, these hurried decisions often lead to a similar situation arising a few years down the line, and the whole cycle begins again.

Your business has to work with the result of your decision every single working day. In this respect, you could equate choosing the right system to choosing the right person to fill your next senior management position. The wrong decision has a negative and demoralising impact, preventing your business from moving in the direction you want, aside from having a serious cost implication.

Software is one of the most important services your business will use, as is your long-term partnership with the supplier. It is also true that the vast majority of recruiters do not know how to choose software. Why should you? Your expertise is in recruitment, not IT.

Our FREE white paper provides a guide to the software selection process. It details the key areas you need to consider and explore to ensure the best choice for your business, whether you are replacing existing software, or making a first time investment:

  • Choosing the right supply options – bespoke or off-the-shelf? Discover the advantages of each.
  • Short-listing your candidate systems – find out which delivery method is right for your business: browser or Windows-based? Evaluate the benefits … and the downsides.
  • Deciding on the right database, the core of your system – an essential choice for the future growth of your business.
  • Selecting the right payment models – learn how to choose the payment models and the costs to suit your business.
  • Choosing your supplier – know what to specify… and the one key pitfall to avoid.
  • Checking references – how to foolproof your final choice and minimise your risk.

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