Your recruitment technology is key to your business' growth. It should speed up recruiter effectiveness, create valuable assets and increase sales.
We are Virtual IT Directors to our clients, helping them to create a sales-led technology strategy, which includes Recruitment CRM and associated recruitment systems.
Through our Recruitment Technology Discoveries, we'll review what technology you have, how it's used, and advise on what you need to deliver profitable recruitment process.
We will be your Virtual IT Director. You needed a trusted advisor to devise a plausible and growth / sales-led technology strategy for your recruitment business.
We will work with you to make your CRM first in your workflow: sourcing, lead generation, candidate nurturing, client conversion, account management, recruiter retention. Don’t you want your clients, candidates and recruiters to use you (and your CRM) first?
Their knowledge of the recruitment industry coupled with their technology expertise enables them to provide a very useful insight into how we can establish a solid foundation onto which future growth will happen.
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"After working with Barclay Jones I have more confidence in what I am doing, and in the ability to know the questions to ask. I can rely on Lisa – she has challenged my team and I to develop award-winning strategies – we won the Recruiter Award for best marketing team. My time with Barclay Jones in three words? Fun, insightful, delivering."
“We would absolutely recommend Barclay Jones, they are the most professional trainers that we have come across. Now we have a partner who understands our recruitment business, Bullhorn and how we use it. Luke is a former recruiter who clearly “got recruitment”. We ran several sessions and Barclay Jones were constantly looking to improve and adapt the training to make it work well for us.”
We would definitely recommend them to other recruitment businesses – other than the fact this may limit their time for ATA! They “get” the problems that we face and have never recommended a solution that we didn’t need. We trust them. As a result of this training we now have someone who understands how to engage our recruiters and train them on our version of Adapt. We can focus on the core activity to get a return on investment. We have an increased awareness of how Adapt can make recruiters successful.
We can benchmark you over key areas such as: CRM, business process, recruitment workflow, company objectives and structure, reporting systems, management information, recruiter engagement, ROI, manager engagement.
We follow with a Recruitment Technology Strategy Workshop for your stakeholders to deliver our ideas on your annual recruitment technology strategy, and focus on what we call your first 90 day "Rock" - issues to be fixed, and ideas to help you drive your recruiting and sales pipelines.
We now work as Virtual IT Directors for the recruitment industry. Every recruitment business needs a plausible and growth / sales-led strategy for their technology. Every recruitment leader needs someone they can trust to advise on recruitment technology, and recruiting and business process.
They “get” the problems that we face and have never recommended a solution that we didn’t need. We trust them.
Our clients want the advice and experience of a commercially-focused IT Director, but not the salary bill! We work with Recruitment leaders to devise recruitment technology strategy, and mentor their IT function to deliver cost-effective and recruiter-effective processes.
We know that poor product selection, inadequate planning and implementation will result in stress, disruption, low morale, expensive mistakes and stalled growth.
We will help you select the correct Recruitment CRM, plan a plausible implementation project, and help you ensure that it is delivered on time and to budget.
Change doesn’t happen simply because you buy new recruitment software. We work with recruiters to devise a CRMFirst strategy and implement the best recruitment software solutions.
Bullhorn Training
“We would absolutely recommend Barclay Jones, they are the most professional trainers that we have come across. Now we have a partner who understands our recruitment business, Bullhorn and how we use it. Luke is a former recruiter who clearly “got recruitment”. We ran several sessions and Barclay Jones were constantly looking to improve and adapt the training to make it work well for us.”
Lisa Jones
Recruiters and recruitment marketers! This is a crucial read if you want to drive 2019 with a sales-led marketing strategy and “let’s make some money from our recruitment CRM and Recruitment data” plan.Get on with Selling and Recruiting!Do you want to make some money from your recruitment database (or just spend money on it?)Do you want your marketers to generate leads, or just pretty pictures and mugs?Do you want to ensure that your sales team are effective online, and not just on LinkedIn and job boards all day and still only place a small % of their jobs?With the advent of Bullhorn buying lots of recruitment businesses, and Access Group buying Microdec and Volcanic recently, Erecruit Adapt becoming a stronger brand, GDPR, Brexit and everything else in the recruitment tech and data space, you can be forgiven for wanting to scream… “can I just get on with flipping selling and recruiting?” These are all best in class recruitment systems, and when used well can really drive profit.Recruitment Tech – Data in, Invoices Out?But irrespective of which system you have they all have one thing in common – what you put into them and what you get out of them. I’ve been talking to my clients about data, tech and marketing, with the sole aim of trying to help them make sense of something that has been evading them for some time – they have the same questions:How do I get my recruiters to improve their placement rates?How do I get my recruiters to make more phone calls?How do I get my recruiters to source and place, without spending all day on LinkedIn?How do I get my marketers and recruiters working more collaboratively? And get marketing to deliver leads?How do I get candidates to actually come to my website? And how can I get my website to make me money?How do I improve the value of my recruitment business?For me, it’s simple. It’s about 3 things: Data, Systems, PeopleAre People Really Your Most Important Asset?We are often told that our most important asset is our people… but I beg to differ…These days, I’d suggest that data is critical, systems are crucial – and process is the glue that joins to three crucial assets together. People make the systems work, systems drive the process.Hence, people, process AND data are your most important assets.I realise that whilst recruiters and their leaders are great at rolling up their sleeves and mucking in to hit target, recruitment systems and data still appear to be failing to deliver profitable processes. But are systems and data really the issue? Or are the people to blame?Are Your Recruiters the Problem Between the Keyboard and Chair (PIBKAC)?With 2/3 of the UK leavers last year quitting their jobs due to a lack of training, does the recruitment industry suffer the same fate? Does it have a lack of trained recruiters? What is the impact of this? Lost fees, bad reputation, candidates and client-disloyalty? (Currently the average 10-person recruiter blows £10k when someone leaves (contact me to see why).Or, is your recruitment data still holding you back, even though, with GDPR, you thought you’d shed some significant “weight”?Is your recruitment software driving recruitment process, or just driving your recruiters insane and they yell “it’s admin”?Recruitment Process is Key for this Year and BeyondWith the data you have, the systems you use, and the people you employ, you need something that binds them all together. PROCESS!This is why I have come up with the model below. I call it my “dig up stupid” model. This came to me watching the Simpsons “Homer the Vigilante” episode. Admit it – as a recruiter you have “enough” data?But do you have a process for capitalising on it, or simply searching it? Have you divided into 2 of your most important segments (level 2 and 3). These are the people you have sold to and placed, and those you have met / engaged with but did not convert.What recruitment systems and processes do you have for your recruiters and marketers to actively convert / retain this data? Or are you fixated on finding new data, and / or getting distracted with data that you genuinely don’t need?Recruitment Data + People + Process = FeesThink about the cash you may be blowing by not training your recruiters to use your systems. Ask yourselves what you plan to do this year, with GDPR out of the way, to really monetise your recruitment technology. Systems are one thing, getting your recruiters to use them… that’s the key.ARRANGE A CALLBACK TO CHAT ABOUT OUR RECRUITMENT MARKETING TRAININGOur recruitment community loves our Adapt, Bullhorn, Inbound Sales, LinkedIn, Job Adverts and recruitment training hacks. Click the links to get more, and sign up to our Recruiter Hacks Newsletter to receive them as they are published.
Wayne Barclay
Recruitment leaders, recruiters and their marketers are sat at their desks, pressing backspace on the 8 and changing to 9 (2018 / 2019) – wondering where 2018 has gone, and what needs to be different about their recruitment businesses in 2019.We were flattered when asked by vsource to reflect and comment on what the team has learned from 2018.Who are Vsource?Our Sourcing Platform combines the latest in AI, talent analytics and search algorithms to deliver daily candidate searches to your recruiting team.In their “What We Learned from Recruitment in 2018?” blog they have reflected diversity, gender pay gaps, social recruiting, passive candidates, remote working, and of course, AI. They’ve given some fascinating stats which will get every recruiting and marketing professional thinking about their strategies for the coming year.And they got my team and I thinking too!What Barclay Jones Learned from Recruitment in 2018Recruitment marketing generating more than simply clicks and contentThe value of really good dataHow to create a CRMFirst cultureHow to build a successful recruitment teamIt’s a damn-good-read and will take you 5 minutes and give you some perspective.(Thanks vsource)Our recruitment community loves our Adapt, Bullhorn, Inbound Sales, LinkedIn and Job Adverts and recruitment training hacks. Click the links to get more, and sign up to our Recruiter Hacks Newsletter to receive them as they are published.READ ABOUT HOW WE DELIVER A CRMFIRST CULTURE
