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How to Make Money from Your Recruitment CRM: The Data + Systems + People Model

Recruiters and recruitment marketers—if you want to drive this year with a sales-led strategy and start monetising your recruitment CRM, read on.💡CRM used effectively = 29% more productivity. But how do you actually do that?Are You Making or Wasting Money with Your CRM?Do you want to make money from your recruitment database, or just pay for it?Do you want your marketers generating leads, not just blogs and events?Do you want your recruiters consulting, and placing more, not just sourcing and wasting time on LinkedIn and job boards?All recruitment tech has one thing in common: what you put in determines what you get out. And right now, recruitment leaders are asking:How do I boost my recruiters’ placement rates?How do I get them off LinkedIn and onto our CRM and back on the phone?How can marketing generate leads that sales actually use?How do I turn our website and automation into money-makers?How can AI and automation drive growth?The answer? A simple but powerful focus on Data, Systems, and People.1. Data = Wealth💸Yes, people are valuable assets. But your data is what clients and candidates are actually buying. It fuels your pipeline—or clogs it.Too often, recruiters have too much data. They keep sourcing more, creating a FOMO-fuelled vicious cycle that kills productivity and profit. Instead of creating more, you need to work your existing data better. (Check out my "dig up stupid" data model below.)2. Systems = Speed + Scale🏃‍♂️‍➡️For years, I’ve said “Be CRM-first" or Bullhorn 1st. Finally, recruitment leaders are getting this concept.I've often said "too many systems and not enough process". That’s changing, with automation and AI now helping recruiters get more from the data they already own.Today’s recruitment software can guide your process instead of turning recruiters into co-ordinators and admins. But that only works if you have a systemised approach and use automation strategically.3. People = Process in Action💪Here’s the harsh truth: untrained recruiters = lost fees. PEBKAC is still an issue. Often, the problem exists between and chair and the keyboard.With 2/3 of workers leaving due to lack of training, this is a red flag for your bottom line. The average 10-person recruitment agency loses $€£10k when a recruiter leaves.Too many agencies rely on a one-time “go live” for systems and then leave it. But without ongoing, embedded training, recruiters forget, systems stagnate or change, and process breaks down.💡Your Fix? Connect the DotsData, systems, and people don’t work in silos. You need a joined-up recruitment process that allows your recruiters to consult—not just click.Data: Look again at the graphic above. Have you identified and are working your green and amber data, or are your recruiters drowning in FOMO and wasting time sourcing even more data? System/Process: But do you have a system (and process) for working your green and amber? Is your green and amber ready for automation and AI?People: What training are you giving your recruiters to effectively use your data and Recruitment CRM / systems so that they can make money rather than just administrate / co-ordinate?This is exactly why we deliver money-making Bullhorn RoI projects, Automation strategies, and have created Recruitment HIIT—an on-demand platform built to weaponise Bullhorn, LinkedIn, and your systems to drive placements and productivity.💥 Stop blowing cash. Start building profit—with the recruitment data, tech, and team you already have.BOOK A CALL TO CHAT ABOUT HOW TO DO MORE WITH WHAT YOU HAVE
11 Stats Every Recruiter Needs to Know Before Sending a Spec CV

Recruiters want two things: more time and a stronger pipeline. But here’s the reality...🔒 70% of jobs are never advertised. 📞 It can take up to 18 calls to reach a single prospect. 📬 And with email inboxes overflowing, your “Spec CV Send” could be lost before it’s even seen.We speak to recruiters every day who are in what we call a "JAM"—just about managing. You're doing the work, sending the CVs, following up… but placements aren’t landing the way they should. Why?Because sending a CV isn't enough anymore. You need that email to work—to stand out, get opened, and drive action. With lead lifecycles shrinking to 24 hours or less, being top of the inbox isn’t optional. It’s survival.So what’s the fix?🚀 11 Stats to Focus Your Spec CV Sends and Email MarketingThere’s no shortage of stats out there—but we’ve boiled it down to 11 stats (2 above and 9 below) to get you thinking (and transforming) your candidate marketing and boost placement success.Why Your CV Sends Are Falling Flat📩 Your clients receive 121 emails a day (and over 30 billion emails were sent last year).👀 Only 20% of emails ever get opened.🛑 And thanks to filters, 1 in 5 emails never even land in your client’s inbox.How to Get Your Emails Opened (and Actioned)🎯Be Relevant – 61% of clients open emails if your past contact was useful or timely. Build relationships, not just touchpoints.📌Nail Your Subject Line – 47% of recipients open emails based on the subject line alone. Ask yourself: What’s in it for them?💘Get Personal – Using the recipient’s name boosts action rates by 26%. Hi John beats Hello Sir/Madam every time.📱Think Mobile First – 30% higher open rates happen on phones. Short, punchy, and scannable wins.⌚Time is Everything – Most emails are opened within an hour. After 24 hours, your lead may be dead in the water.Convert Emails into Real Opportunities💪Recruiters using their CRM effectively are 34% more productive.🏃‍♂️‍➡️Our Bullhorn HIIT training helps you use your database to its full potential—so your best leads don’t slip through the cracks.🚦What These Stats Mean for YouIf your emails aren’t converting into interviews or jobs, it’s not just a marketing issue—it’s a process problem. And the fix doesn’t need to be complex. Clean data, sharp messaging, and smarter timing can put you back in the driver’s seat.So… What Do You Need to Do Now?✅ Audit your CV send process.✅ Review your CRM usage.✅ Craft better subject lines.✅ Re-engage old leads.✅ Learn what works—and automate it.This isn’t about sending more. It’s about sending smarter.Need help getting your emails working for you, not against you? Drop us a line—we’ll show you how to turn your database into a placement machine.CONTACT USThe Best Bullhorn and Recruitment TrainingWe have 100's of recruitment tips and tricks to help you effectively market to candidates and clients, whether it be Bullhorn Hacks, LinkedIn tips, automation, or recruitment marketing advice. We have a whole blog dedicated to helping recruiters source the all important 4Cs - Candidates, Clients, Colleagues and Cash!Our high intensity interval training - Recruitment HIIT - helps recruiters source, convert quicker, and develop healthy pipelines, and recruitment marketers attract, engage, and retain candidates, clients, and colleagues (3Cs).TRY RECRUITMENT HIITREAD ABOUT OUR RECRUITMENT TRAININGBOOK A CALL TO DISCUSS RECRUITMENT TRAINING
9 Crucial Recruitment Marketing ROI Questions ~ Answered

Recruitment marketers who want to make a real difference to the sales and recruiting process of their businesses need to read these recruitment marketing insights.Recruitment leaders who are looking to generate more from their marketing function can use Lisa's insights to help them drive marketing ROI.Vanity v SanityRecruitment marketing can often stray into "vanity" world. It's never been easier to "spray and pray" with marketing due to automation and AI. The sheer volume of platforms you can use for recruitment marketing, and the communities you can access and attract, can keep even the most well-intended marketer too busy to generate ROI.But with 69% of online content never even being read, and the vast majority of emails never being responded to, it's never been more important to be targeted with your recruitment marketing and focus on the sanity!Lisa has done a lot of work with recruiters over the years helping them shape their recruitment marketing strategies, so I made her a rare coffee and asked her 9 questions about recruitment marketing ROI.9 Questions I Asked Lisa About Recruitment Marketing ROI1. What is the Function of Recruitment Marketing?Crucially to attract, engage, convert, and retain your 3Cs – candidates, clients, colleagues.And to help your sales and recruiting teams turn them into the 4th C – cash!2. What is the Number 1 Benefit of Recruitment Marketing?Leads (candidate and client) are key...But often the expectations of what recruitment marketing can do are too low and KPIs are mistakenly around followers, impressions, blogging… The benefits of recruitment marketing need to be SANE not VANE. 3. How Should You Measure ROI on Recruitment Marketing?Stick to “sanity stats”: Leads generated. Relevant subscribers signed up. Automation click throughs. Don’t not be fooled by people telling you that it’s difficult to measure ROI in recruitment marketing.4. What is the Difference Between Outbound and Inbound Recruiting?It is the difference between the more traditional approaches to marketing (email marketing / events) and digital (social / web). Push and pull!It’s all about whether you’re interrupting someone’s day with your messages or whether they perceive that they initiate the contact. The key to successful recruitment marketing, whether it be in or out bound, is that the candidate / client feels that they are the initiator... But actually the marketer has stealthily exposed the candidate's / client’s and drove them to click / call you.5. Is Recruitment Marketing Only for Large Companies?All recruitment companies need recruitment marketing.And every recruiter needs to be a recruitment marketer in some way. (Another blog for another day...)Recruitment HIIT has some cool hacks to help recruitment consultants market themselves, their brand, and their services, too!6. What’s the Number 1 Pitfall in Recruitment Marketing?Too much content, not enough marketing! And too much marketing, not enough sales!7. What's Your Number 1 Hack for Content in Recruitment Marketing?69% of content is never even seen, so wasting time creating new content, especially in the current market, is nuts! Repurpose old content. Repurpose other people's content.Create blogs out of blogs eg. "3 Insights We Found Online That Every Accountant Needs to Read this Week"And if you really need to create your own content, ask your recruiters to ask the right questions on their screening and sales calls and then craft insightful blogs to attract and engage your community. eg...What 's the best tech every teacher uses to create lesson plans?How do you think AI will affect your job in the next 5 years?How has your legal firm been affected by WFH?My Recruitment Training platform, Recruitment HIIT has some cool hacks to try, too!8. What is the Recruitment Marketer’s Essential Tech Stack?You can get lost in the tech, but as a starter I'd suggest:Trello for planning.Google Analytics for website ROI.Bullhorn Automation (if you have Bullhorn).An SEO toolkit like SEMRush/AHRefs to turbo boost content – and Keywords Everywhere is flipping awesome!Speedy video and image software such as Canva to "stretch" content – remember, “less content, more marketing!”I mentioned other tech in My Recruitment Training platform, Recruitment HIIT.9. How Can Focus Your Time and Attention and Not Stray into Vanity Territory?Plus, I say to my clients who are looking to hire / get more from marketing and need focused revenue-generating outputs.“Imagine if your recruitment marketer had only 1 hour a day to make a real difference, what should they do? Then times that by 7 and that’s the job spec”. Often recruitment marketers spend too long doing things that people have asked them to do that offer no real value to recruitment and sales. Stay focussed on the WIIFMB - what's in it for my business?Automation BuddyWe are Automation Buddies set on helping ambitious recruitment businesses who want to increase speed and sales.We coach to inspire amazing automation ROI, and are a safe pair of hands to build your automations so you can recruit and sell more.READ ABOUT OUR AUTOMATION BUDDY SERVICE
How Can Recruiters Get More Time on the Phone (and use LinkedIn Less?)

Recruiters, if 82% of your prospects can be reached via social media, but you’re likely really busy advertising jobs, screening, managing your accounts, you need some tips to help you speedily use social media for BD and recruitment.We have some great sales and recruitment tips on our recruitment training platform, Recruitment HIIT. How Can Recruiters Use Social Media to Sell and Recruit?Inbound Sales tips for recruiters are often littered with “long haul” tips which the average recruiter has no time for. Now, more than ever, recruiters are time starved, marketers are desperately trying to add significant value to their recruitment businesses, and candidates and clients need more specialist and speedy help.You need a simple and effective inbound sales process to help you sell and recruit:You need more convertible leads,You need better quality candidates to apply for your jobsYou need tips to help you manage your clients beyond the first sale – account management.Our Inbound (and LinkedIn HIIT) shows recruiters, resourcers, and their marketers how to:Attract candidates and clients whilst you sleep.Reduce the time you spend sourcing by up to 50%.Get back on the phone so you can focus on converting and keeping your candidates and clients. Oh! AND we have some fabulous Hintro and Hinterview tips to help you add some turbo (and video) to your sales and recruitment workflow.Watch Lisa's Pep Talk About Inbound Sales and What's in It for YouChristopher Slade, Executive Integrity. I now have more time to run my recruitment business, and hire! Because of Recruitment HIIT, when we hire someone, the pressure is off of me and my business partner to do all of the training. It’s a lot less stressful. New starters are onboarded a lot quicker.The Coolest Recruitment Tool is the RecruiterOur high intensity interval training -  Recruitment HIIT- helps recruiters and resourcers source, convert quicker and develop healthy pipelines. We aim to save every recruiter and resourcer at least 1 hour per day (6 working weeks a year)- more billing time, more fees!We’d love you to try Recruitment HIIT for free.TRY RECRUITMENT HIITREAD ABOUT OUR RECRUITMENT TRAININGBOOK A CALL TO DISCUSS RECRUITMENT TRAINING
Recruitment Marketers! Develop a Content Strategy That Doesn't Waste Your Time

Recruitment Marketers and Leaders, you need to focus your time and resources on the things that will really help generate more ROI for your recruitment business. But how, when 60%-70% of your content generation time may be wasted?The Recruitment Marketing Congress is geared to help recruitment marketers find solid, actionable, solutions to help you maximise your opportunities.Are You Wasting 60% of Your Time?Gartner tells us that 60-70% of the content created is never seen – so why are recruiters and their marketers often fixated on creating it.How can you create a “less content, more marketing” strategy to ensure that every piece of content you create has a purpose beyond keeping you busy, and generating the odd click?And then have time to do the good stuff – candidate, client, colleague generation?On, 22/04/21, 14:30GMT, I spoke about how you can perfect your content strategy to ensure you are sending the right message to your ideal candidates and clients.Caroline Vooght, Director Expion Search & Selection. Barclay Jones are the "go to" place for recruitment marketing. Would I recommend? Yes - they helped us achieve our goal. We now have great copy, more time, and a greater understanding of how to write Google-enabled copy to help us in the future.3 words to describe them: knowledge, capability, partnership.Watch the Recruitment Marketing Webinar with UK Recruiter HereHelp Your Recruiters Generate More SalesRecruiters who use social selling are 50% more likely to meet or exceed their quota. And if they use personas and strong buyer's journeys, the stats are even higher! We've got some speed HIIT (high intensity interval training). Be a hero, and help them save time, source quicker, generate leads - get them to trial Recruitment HIIT for free.TRY RECRUITMENT HIIT FOR FREEBOOK A CALL TO DISCUSS RECRUITMENT TRAINING
Recruitment Websites: 5 Tips to Generate Sales and Candidates During Coronavirus

Your recruitment website is vital. For it to generate sales and candidates it needs the best fuel. We ran a webinar for recruitment leaders and marketers who need to improve pipelines.Recruitment leaders and marketers need more of the 4Cs – candidates, clients, consultants, and cash! (And not simply more clicks and content!)With recruiters spending in excess of 13 hours sourcing per week, and only following up 20% of their leads, your recruitment website needs to deliver real value! But how? And how during this turbulent time of Coronavirus?Recruitment Websites as Virtual Recruitment ConsultantsAs a Recruitment Marketing Mentor to some great recruiters, I’ve worked on many recruitment websites, so I have some great hacks for leaders and marketers to get their website delivering sales and candidates.I’m often heard saying:Your recruitment website is your virtual recruitment consultant – it never sleeps, and it does as it’s told – but does it have a job spec and defined deliverables, or is it simply a cost centre?Tactics for Recruitment Websites Selling and AttractingWatch my recruitment website tips webinar with Steve Barnhurst at Volcanic. We gave away some tactics to fuel your recruitment website to generate sales and pipeline (not just colour and clicks!)Do you need more leads to convert?Do you need to create a strong candidate pool and engaged passive candidates?Do you need to attract more clients and job ordersAnd what has Star Trek and Star Wars got to do with Recruitment Websites?Watch the Recruitment Websites Tips Webinar HereREAD ABOUT OUR MARKETING TRAININGBOOK A CALL TO DISCUSS MARKETING TRAININGPSSST...Your recruiters and marketers need training to be more effective. More tech and data won't always fix the problem of lost sales and disengaged candidates. The issue is often "the problem between and the chair and the keyboard". Our high intensity interval training - Recruitment HIIT - helps recruiters source, convert quicker, and develop healthy pipelines, and recruitment marketers attract, engage, and retain candidates, generate leads, and colleagues (3Cs).Call us, orTRY RECRUITMENT HIIT FREE
Sales and Marketing! This Is Your Time to Pit, Not Stop!

I ran a webinar with APSCo for Recruiters, Sales and Marketers.Recruiters, I bet you’re getting calls by the second from:Clients who are withdrawing vacancies or, giving you too many to viably work on.Candidates deciding to NOT attend interviews, or who are looking for work.Marketers, I bet your inbox is full of emails asking:What costs you can cut.What campaigns you can set up to make the pain go away.What stuff you’d like to buy to make the pain go away – the irony!Sales pipelines are either drying up, or job applications and excess jobs are flooding inboxes and causing bottlenecks.Sales and marketing are challenging at the best of times… But now, This is a REALLY challenging time.It’s time to focus on positive and effective methods to help you make a difference to your 3Cs – candidates, clients, colleagues.Perhaps one way to see this time is as a pit stop – you’re in your formula one car, the ignition is on, you know at some point you need to get back out on to the track. What can and should you do to be ready?How can sales and marketing work together and be smart in this turbulent time – especially when you are all geographically disconnected and working from home?Watch this Recruitment Sales and Marketing Against Corona Virus WebinarClick here for the slides for this sales and marketing webinar HIIT Us, Recruiters!Our high intensity interval training - Recruitment HIIT - helps recruiters source, convert quicker, and develop healthy pipelines, and recruitment marketers attract, engage, and retain candidates, generate leads, and colleagues (3Cs).TRY RECRUITMENT HIITREAD ABOUT OUR RECRUITMENT TRAININGBOOK A CALL TO DISCUSS RECRUITMENT TRAINING
Social Media Tips to Help Recruiters Earn More

Recruiters suffer so many distractions in their jobs - and they have so little time to make that placement and sale. 56 interruptions a day / checking your emails 36 times an hour! How on earth are you supposed to sell anything? You have more tech than ever, more data than ever, but less time! I have a passion for sharing time-saving and sales hacks to help recruiters save time, so that you can make more of those crucial phone calls and have more interviews.As a recruiter, you will know the importance of using social media as part of your recruitment strategy, but do you know how to do this effectively? And how can you use social media systems like LinkedIn, Twitter, etc… to recruit without spending too much time online and not on the phone? This blog will help you to generate more inbound leads through social media, spend less time on job boards, and more time managing your pipeline.I am the founder of Barclay Jones, have worked in recruitment for nearly 20 years and coach recruitment businesses and their teams to generate better leads, opportunities, and sales. I have compiled my 5 top tips for utilising social media in recruitment. Read them below:How Recruiters Can Generate More Leads from Social Media1. Spend 5 minutes a day cleaning your LinkedIn notifications and checking for leads – this will ensure that LinkedIn only shows you genuine leads, and only shows your face to genuine leads. This is a great hack for improving speed.2. Use LinkedIn SSI to understand where you need to improve your LinkedIn profile – You need to maximise your time, so need your profile and activity to really work, even whilst you’re sleeping.3. This is one of my favourites. Use Awards in your niche sector to generate warm calls – Have a calendar of the awards in your sector and be ready to congratulate/mention the awards in your messages to prospects and clients.4. Grow your connections with content (add a link to one of your blogs in your LinkedIn invites) or find content online which really nails any issues they may have in their jobs/sector. If you have nothing on your blog which does this, give your marketer the Paddington Bear stare.5. Use Calendly to give your candidates and clients the opportunity to fill your diary with calls, then get on the phone!Your time is really precious – you have candidates to source, clients to keep happy, jobs to place, and pipelines to protect. The recruiter tips above should really speed up your day and make you more effective. What tips do you have for using social media to recruit and sell?HIIT Us, Recruiters!Our high intensity interval training - Recruitment HIIT - helps recruiters source, convert quicker and develop healthy pipelines, and helps marketers generate more of the 3Cs. We aim to save every recruiter and marketer at least 1 hour per day - more billing time, more fees!TRY RECRUITMENT HIITBOOK A CALL TO DISCUSS MARKETING TRAININGREAD ABOUT OUR MARKETING TRAINING
5 Tips for LinkedIn Jedi Masters (and Recruiters)

Recruiters need more of the 3Cs – candidates, clients and colleagues. Jedi need more rebels to help them defeat The Empire! I often compare Recruiters to Jedi – they both use dark forces to control the universe! And they both have some significant tech at their disposal which can make a massive difference.Follow these Jedi tricks for Recruiting Smarter with LinkedInBeing a Star Wars fan at Barclay Jones may not be a prerequisite, but it goes along way if you hate movies 1-3! And with Star Wars Day being an annual event (like International Recruiter’s Day) I’ve penned some power user (Jedi) tricks for Recruiters using LinkedIn:Get your Profile Headline actually saying what you do rather than what’s on your business card – Recruiter at ABC Resourcing means nothing and is likely to be missed in favour of “Specialist in SAP Recruitment, working across the UK with SAP Contractors” – god forbid you actually come up in candidate searches…!But how could they be jamming us if they don’t know… that we’re… coming?Increase your sector-specific contacts – the global average for recruiters is 650… poor “must try harder”. Spend 10 mins a day looking for the coffees you want to have with clients and candidates and make it happen – don’t just source for the vacancy you have today. Your clients and candidates expect (and pay) you to be better than them.Do, or do not do. There is no try.Running a crap group? Shut it down or gear it up – don’t let it dangle.What a piece of junk!Attract the followers of your clients’ company pages – 71% of them are candidates wanting to work there (according to stats from LinkedIn). Post something there or comment on their content.Travelling through hyperspace ain’t like dustin’ crops, boy!Save your searches (3 for people, 10 for jobs and if you have paid for accounts even more). Get the data coming to you – you’re not measured on how long you spend on LinkedIn!The ability to speak does not make you intelligent. Now get out of here.Then read my Inbound Sales Blog – some flipping fantastic hacks in there for recruiters who want to jump to light speed, but don't have a Millennium Falcon (or a Wookie!)I was going to end this blog with “may the force be with you” but that would be just too obvious, instead,This is Red 5, I’m going in.(If I’m honest, I feel a little dirty now!) “And I thought they smelled bad on the outside.” #StarWarsWe run LinkedIn for Recruiters courses for time-starved recruiters, who think they have a handle on LinkedIn, but want to improve their profile, increase their relevant application response and place more jobs.HIIT Us, Recruiters!Our high intensity interval training - Recruitment HIIT - helps recruiters source, convert quicker, and develop healthy pipelines, and recruitment marketers attract, engage, and retain candidates, generate leads, and colleagues (3Cs).TRY RECRUITMENT HIITREAD ABOUT OUR RECRUITMENT TRAININGBOOK A CALL TO DISCUSS RECRUITMENT TRAINING
How Recruiters Can Use Google Analytics to Jedi-Mind Trick Talent

Recruitment Leaders buy a website not because they have better things to spend their money on, but because they need to generate the 3Cs – candidates, client and colleagues – oh and a small matter of cash (4th c!) Recruitment marketers need their website to make them look good, and make generating candidates and leads easier.Does your Recruitment Website Generate Leads, or just Clicks?Every recruitment website should have either Google Analytics or at least some way of measuring hits, time spent on your site, which jobs your candidate clicked on to, which case studies your clients read, whether a recruiter came to your Work for Us page – and for how long, where the surfer was located… (a long time ago in a galaxy far, far away…)But did you know that Google can tell you some other pretty exciting stuff about the makeup of your candidates, clients and colleagues, (ewoks and wookies)? And it can also tell you the secret formula (The Force) to winning your candidates’ and clients’ hearts and minds? In other words, it tells you who they are, where they are, what devices they are using to access your site, which browser (blaster) they use to find you, and so on.Devices Are Really Exciting!Here’s something not a lot of people have talked about (including the mighty Yoda!). I was with a client recently and we were reviewing their website’s Google Analytics. We discovered that over 50% of the 40% of their surfers were using Apple devices.Translation: 20% (1 in 5) of their surfers were using an Apple device. Translation: A significant amount… so significant that the next stat on the list was Samsung S9 at 5% – hence a lot of people are using Apple to access my client’s site. They are now penning some “Best Apps Every Engineer Needs for Their iPhone” blogs etc… to attract their ideal engineering candidates.This data is gold dust! I’m not sure we got to light sabres, but I bet it was a few!Surfing whilst sitting on the toilet playing holographic chess with a wookieI’ve done a lot of recruiter polls and a recent one I did proved that: male recruiters are more likely to do business whilst doing their business on the loo (toilet for our non-UK friends!).Your Google Stats Tell You About MeSo, I am surfing your site, I am holding my device. My device gets more me-time than my husband and kids. It gets more me-time than my hair, face, car, Millennium Falcon – it IS me – so when I use it to surf you, I am giving you a monstrous clue about what I care about, about what gets me through the day, what organises my time, what directs me, when to jump to light speed: it speaks, I listen!I Am in Love With My Device!I care about my phone! Am I unusual? I don’t think so… when was the last time you left the house without your phone, got to work and said, “Oh dear! I’ve left my phone at home, oh never mind, I’ll deal with that when I get home!”? And then proceeded to have a stress-free day and forget all about it! How would Luke have coped without R2D2 in Empire Strikes back? (You could see what he has to say about this with a fab R2D2 translation website I found recently!)Oh no! It’s more akin to you trying to behave like you haven’t had your right hand cut off (Luke!), whilst not behaving irrationally, fear of missing out #FOMO, and downright panicking that if people can’t get hold of you the world will end (missed calls, missed placements, missed targets, you’ll not find out who your father really is!?)Talk Dirty to MeSo, if we agree that the average mobile user cares about their device, and Google tells you which device they are using to look at you, then do the maths! Use this data to help you create a communication strategy (Darth Vader’s mind choke!).If lots of people access your website with an Apple device, talk about Apple! It’s really simple!Talk about things that will help your surfer – keep them engaged.You are a niche finance recruiter? Tell accountants which top 10 apps for Apple they should be using! Interim / Contract recruiter? Tell your candidates which apps can help them travel at the speed of light and not spend loads in the process! Jedi temp specialist? Which apps can they use to engage their hyperdrive?Or You Can Bore Me To TearsOr you can continue with what many recruiters seem to still be doing right now which is:To bore me to tears with irrelevant content, (Star Wars Episodes 1-3!)To sound self-obsessed – talking about themselves all day long… #yawn #NerfHerder!To be totally silent… (try harder!) #IsAnyoneThere #HelpMeObiMake Your Marketer a CoffeeCheck out your Google Analytics and see what your audience is telling you.This is just one of a myriad of stats which you can get from Google and if you have 5 minutes you can massively improve the experience your surfers have, and perhaps even take the content plans to a wider social media audience (intergalactic!)If you don’t have access to your analytics, as your marketing department guards them with their lives, make them a cuppa (they rarely get thanks or intelligent questions) and ask them to do something that they will enjoy, as opposed to you simply thinking they are there to create a PowerPoint presentation for you… Buy them a cake and have a useful conversation with them about who your audience is. This will take you a massive step forward and have a massive impact on your ability to attract Jedi and clients.Do you know what devices / operating systems / browsers your users surf you from? Find out – it could take you beyond the Forest Moon of Endor!We don’t just chat about Star Wars all day… we also train recruiters to become more successful with Adapt, Bullhorn, LinkedIn, Inbound Sales, Job Adverts, and Email and Content Marketing.HIIT Us, Recruiters!Our high intensity interval training - Recruitment HIIT - helps recruiters source, convert quicker, and develop healthy pipelines, and recruitment marketers attract, engage, and retain candidates, generate leads, and colleagues (3Cs).TRY RECRUITMENT HIITBOOK A CALL TO DISCUSS MARKETING TRAININGREAD ABOUT OUR MARKETING TRAINING
4 Mistakes You’re Making with Your Recruitment Website

With Google for Jobs, GDPR and Brexit really “helping” Recruitment leaders focus on a sustainable recruitment business model, your website has become front and centre of your marketing. You need it to make you money and not simply build your brand and clicks.With the launch of the new Barclay Jones website, I’ve been waxing lyrical to clients about my experience of the web development and launch process and I’ve come up with 4 mistakes that every recruitment website may be making.Recruitment Websites Need to Make Money!We regularly help recruiters with the project management of recruitment websites, and digital marketing strategies, so this was a busperson’s holiday for us.During the design phase of the new Barclay Jones web, it was clear to me that focus needed to be given in areas what we take for granted. Recruiters often forget about the journey that the website needs to take the 3Cs on:CandidatesClientConsultantsand Cash!Often, a recruitment marketer is too busy to see beyond the launch of the website – and hence the goal appears to be “launch and wave goodbye”. But any finance/managing director who has freed up marketing budget to buy a new recruitment website wants more money – they want candidates, clients, colleagues and cash (not just an online brochure).How to Build a Recruitment WebsiteThere’s lots of content out there about how to build a website, and many a recruitment marketer will know the pain of launching a new site whilst holding down their normal day job.There are a decent number of recruitment specific website companies – many of them offering really valuable advice… but I discovered few practical tips for recruitment marketers to help them drag surfers through the critical buyer’s journey.Recruitment Website Mistake 1 – Look Dumb!With GDPR, the focus on the 3Csand recruitment leaders wanting to invest more in their recruiters, personality has never been so important. But often I look at a recruitment website, then meet the business leaders and recruiters and it’s night and day! In the board room I see passionate advocates of their niche – online “we are the fastest growing, boring, USPless job board” (sorry – tough love!)Why? Because when recruiters “go online” they dumb down… they “de-niche” and they lose their personality. Confidence disappears and recruitment websites do not “sell”. And the blog just talks about “recruitment”Have a think whilst you read this blog about how you can inject some personality into your recruitment website.Recruitment Website Mistake 2 – Ignoring your 404 PageSo – this is the page you’d rather not have people go to – the page which people get to as they have entered an incorrect page on your site, or you have directed to them to a page which no longer exists. Why is it that some many recruitment websites go “doh!” amend don’t take the opportunity to drive the surfer to somewhere useful?Check out this blog about great 404 pages and then check out Barclay Jones’404 page– we loved creating this one for our very own Barclay Jones 404 error page.If people give a damn enough to come to your site, and then accidentally hit a page which has been deleted / moved, then why are you just saying “computer says no!”? Stick out your hand and guide them to where you want them to go.Recruitment Website Mistake 3 – Having a Pants Search Results ScreenTo be fair I did quite a bit of research on this and there was nothing that I could plagiarise! My instincts are that if people want to find “stuff” on your website, then making the results screen as engaging as possible is crucial. Have a think about how to get them to click on the bits YOU want them to click on to. And if you have any great ideas on this, share them with meRecruitment Website Mistake 4 – Contact Us – Or Rather, Kill the Lead!So you spend a fortune in time, money and emotion on getting people to come to your website. They surf about and bingo!, they want to catch up with you. Then you flick your hair and wander away…? Crazy recruiters!I feel that the Contact Us page is THE most important page on your site. They are coming in to your shop asking for help… Hubspot agrees and has a helpful blog about the best contact us pages.So many contact us pages are uninspiring, “templatey”, prone to getting people to NOT contact you.What can you do with your contact page to engage and CONVERT? It’s not enough that they come to your site and your Google Analytics stats improve. You want them to “buy” from you with a subscription (GDPR alert!) or a job application, or dare we suggest that they want to speak to you… Let’s get recruiters’ phones ringing again!Let’s Make Recruitment Websites Great AgainI couldn’t resist the “Trumpism”. Take a look at your site… figure out which pages you really want people to go to and then ask yourself if they are working hard enough for you… and can you use a little personality in them to drive conversions.Recruitment Takeaways…PersonalityCapitalise on errorsTurn searches into conversionsMake contact easy!Create a recruitment website that attracts and retains clients, candidates and consultants…I train and mentor recruitment marketers to generate the 4Cs: candidates, clients, colleagues and cash.HIIT Us, Recruiters!Our high intensity interval training - Recruitment HIIT - helps recruiters source, convert quicker, and develop healthy pipelines, and recruitment marketers attract, engage, and retain candidates, generate leads, and colleagues (3Cs).TRY RECRUITMENT HIITBOOK A CALL TO DISCUSS MARKETING TRAININGREAD ABOUT OUR MARKETING TRAINING
From Dustman to Recruitment Data Scientist… Some Seriously Great Advice for Recruitment Marketers

Recruitment Leaders and their marketers who need their marketing to be sales-led: about convertible leads, retained candidates, recruiter attraction, need to listen to this Recruitment Leaders’ Podcast.Today the focus of this Recruitment Leaders’ podcast is recruitment marketing driving sales. This is a crucial listen for recruitment leaders and their marketers – and recruiters who know that getting on the “right side” of marketing may be the key to their sales pipeline success!Recruitment Marketing, Data and Hacks for Recruiters!If we have learned anything from the last 24 months, cleaning up your data (because the government told you to) may not necessarily get you the financial benefits that your common sense tells you you should be getting from a clean database…I’m joined by someone who can bring data cleanliness and recruitment marketing to whole a new level. Starting as a dustman (who’d have known?) Segued into website build. Became the mighty Broadbean’s 3rdemployee. Then moved to Ebsta.Ricky Wheeler’s purpose at Cube19is to help recruiters generate growth from decisions based on real-time recruitment data.It’s all been about recruitment data (and the odd bit of “dirt”).We talked about two recruitment marketing topics:1. What Tips Can Ricky Give to Recruitment Marketers?What has Ricky learned about recruitment marketing from his vast experience in some high performing recruitment software businesses? He answered the following questions:What are Ricky’s “hacks” for successful recruitment marketing?How do marketers make their functions a profit, rather than a cost, centre?How does Ricky define a high-performance marketing team look like?How do marketers navigate the (what I call) the marketing “love-in” that I see online and at events, which really offer little value, but give generic “tips” on marketing, but often don’t really add any real substance to help the average recruitment marketer add real value to the recruiting workflow?How can recruitment events REALLY work? (when so many of them don’t work…)What do recruitment leaders and recruiters need to “do” with their marketer to get real value and how does the marketer interact with their leaders and internal clients to ensure that they deliver the 4Cs (candidates, clients, colleagues and cash!)2. What does Ricky think that Recruitment Marketers need to do with their data…… to help them become more effective?Which data does a recruitment marketer actually need?How do recruitment marketers actually help the sales funnel?How do personas actually help recruitment marketers with their content / SEO strategy?Where does recruitment CRM fit into a recruitment marketer toolkit?Which tools are critical to a recruitment marketer? And which is the most important recruitment marketing tool?Recruitment Leads / MQLs / SQLsWe discussed recruitment leads – and our tips for lead generation for recruitment leads, where recruitment CRM fits and how to manage the leads into successful conversion. It’s about MQLs (marketing qualified leads) enabling SQLs (sales qualified leads) … and our thoughts that if you’re waiting for automation to transform your business then you’re likely to stagnate your growth by not engaging data and humans in the best way.And what do recruitment leaders and their time-starved recruiters need to stop asking their recruitment marketers to do?We also talked about my concept of the “dashboard recruiter” – you can also hear more thoughts on this in my Mark Hodgkinson “Taming your Recruitment Data” Podcast.And read more about how I work with recruitment marketers to generate leads, candidates and recruiters on my Recruitment Marketing Mentoring Program.Listen to the podcast below.Listen and subscribe to the rest of Barclay Jones’ Recruitment Leader Podcast Series or find us on iTunes!I train and mentor recruitment marketers to deliver the 4Cs - candidates, clients, colleagues, and cash!HIIT Us, Recruiters!Our high intensity interval training - Recruitment HIIT - helps recruiters source, convert quicker, and develop healthy pipelines, and recruitment marketers attract, engage, and retain candidates, generate clients, and colleagues (3Cs).TRY RECRUITMENT HIITBOOK A CALL TO DISCUSS MARKETING TRAININGREAD ABOUT OUR MARKETING TRAINING