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 recently attended a meeting where a debate started on whether social media was “admin”. Is it? Read my mind…

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When an employee starts in or leaves a business, don’t forget to action some social media tasks as part of the change. Your business and brand are precious, so protect them.

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The Recruiters Network is running an event on 24 May 2012 – for recruitment decision makers who are looking to change or purchase a new CRM system in the next 6-8 months and/or wish to learn about innovative technologies in the recruitment market.

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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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Do you have an intranet? Are you aware of the massive benefits these things have on businesses?

We are massive intranet fans, and are currently working on a couple of projects to help our clients become better internal communicators, so I wanted to share with you my 5 thoughts on the benefits of having an intranet.

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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 have been at #TruLondon for 2 days – digesting ideas and quotes around me. Looking at new software, debating the use of social media and tech with other social media types and techies. Whilst demo’ing some (very cute) recruitment software, the MD said the following:

“Recruitment is one of the most inefficient industries in the world”.

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We regularly a review of our clients’ ATSs (Applicant Tracking Systems) and see how they are performing and adding value to the recruitment process. I wanted to share some of my thoughts on ATS.

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