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Posted on June 10, 2008 by JSB | Posted under Careers Employment
Recruitment consultants, and using the latest technology to gain a headstart.
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Mobile broadband. It was only a few years ago that mobile internet connection speeds were around 8Kbs, receiving e-mail, wasn't great, for a recruitment consultant receiving a CV it might take half an hour, if the connection didn't cut out before it all came through. Subsequently came the datacards, a device to plug a SIM card into a Laptop and get a much faster connection which was perfectly usable, if you had a pot of cash! The costs per meg were huge. Now, the advent of the unlimited broadband speed connections has change all that. For as little as £15 per month, recruitment consultants can interview in hotels interviewing with full and uninterrupted access to their companies servers for database access, CVs, e-mails calenders and so on, without concern for the costs. IP phones. To look at and use these are just the same as any other phone. However, they don't need a phone line, all they need is a connection to the internet, but here's the good bits. No phone line, no monthly rental charge Phone comes with a an 0845 number which follows the phone. If you travel to the other side of the world and plug into the internet, and you have your same 0845, your same office extension (so your colleagues can still put calls through) and free calls to anyone else on an IP phone, or at worst a local rate elsewhere. The biggest application for recruitment consultants is home working. You can be in the office one day, and at home the next day, and still on the end of your office extension, the potential savings to recruitment agencies here are huge. Open source software. Office software, and in particular CRM systems can cost recruitment agencies vast amounts of money buy and use. Open source software is free, created and updated by a large community of techies it's presents highly sophisticated alternatives to traditional software. There are now excellent open source CRM packages, totally free as they are open source and perfectly usable as recruitment agency database software. As with Linux, it's advisable to find a company who will be able to support you through it, but other than support, the software is free to obtain and use on an ongoing basis, and it's web based, making it easy for recruitment consultants to view from any location. Have a look at Sugar CRM. 'All in one' recruitment software. The software available to recruitment consultants can save huge amounts of time, and indeed for agencies may negate the need for extra staff. Now, there are recruitment databases which can automatically populated your databases fields straight from and automatically e-mailed version of a CV. Invoicing is automated , simply e-mailing the client and yourself, having made placements, with a of the invoice and directly hooking up to accounts packages such as sage. It's even possible to set phone systems up to automatically draw up the record on screen of a client or candidate as soon as the number is recognisable on an incoming call. The list is endless, the implication is clear, you keep up with developments in technology and you can cut costs, become more efficient and bill more fees. Recruitment consultants who choose not to may find themselves loosing to those who do! About The Author: John Bult runs internet job sites for recruitment consultants in the UK. |
Tags: RECRUITMENT CONSULTANTS, RECRUITMENT AGENCY
