I attended Louise’s event last year on recruiter CRM and systems and was part of the panel answering recruitment decision makers’ questions about recruitment tech. Louise has asked me to attend in May’s event and run a session on social media.

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I recently read an article entitled Leverage your CRM to its full potential. To say I loved it is an understatement. We work on all sorts of CRM projects and this article really “nailed it” for me. But as I always add my two-pennies worth, I thought I would here…

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I have recently been working with a client to help them roll out a new CRM solution to 150 users. Their goal? To help them work towards their company £goals and help transition their business into a national recruiter with a standardised methodology of working. All great stuff.

We have delivered the training to them, so I thought I would share my thoughts on how to train new tech into a business

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A large part of my day is spent helping clients find the most appropriate solution for their requirements – varying from ATS, CRM, funky tech to make them more organised and rich… This inevitably involves a number of demonstrations or as one of my clients recently called it: “a Beauty Parade of solutions”. These are a great way of looking at your options, but I have seen some go horribly wrong.

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Over the years I have worked with a lot of clients helping them with their business process software (CRM – Client Relationship Management / ATS – Applicant Tracking Systems) and I am often stumped at how little time businesses have taken to get it right – and how negative an impact this can have.

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Wanted: I am a Corporate Recruiter and I need a new system, one that I can store candidates on (and my friend, and Agency Recruiter needs one that also stores clients as well). I understand that as a corporate recruiter I will need an Applicant Tracking System, and that my friend an Agency Recruiter ideally needs a Recruitment CRM. We don’t want anything complicated, so we have compiled a quick spec list of what we don’t need our new systems to do… can you help?

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I recently blogged on 5 Things to Think about: Applicant Tracking Systems (ATS) and I promised to blog about 5 more, so here they are.

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Louise Triance from The Recruiters Network has asked me to speak at this event about the challenges and opportunities that technology offers recruitment businesses.

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As an experienced IT Director I’ve been thinking “What are the opportunities and threats to recruiters (both agency and inhouse) when working in the Cloud?”

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“Prove it and you can have the fee!“ Businesses need to hit target to survive.  I used to be a recruitment consultant and when times were lean, this generally included a revisit to all the companies into which introductions had been made , to see if the client had been sneaky and employed a candidate [...]

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