How a recruitment CRM helps you hire faster
When it comes to the busy world of a recruitment consultant, a recruitment database is often something to groan over. It means admin, and lord knows recruiters hate admin more than anything else. When you’re jumping from exciting meeting to the next, having great conversations with candidates and taking clients for drinks and fancy dinners, admin is basically the devil's work and, therefore, so is a CRM. However, that was the CRMs of yesteryear. Now they’re designed to make recruiters lives easier, and the one thing that will make their lives easier is hiring great candidates, quickly. When building Access Recruitment CRM, we made sure that it took candidates to cash both quickly and seamlessly. So, here’s some ways your recruitment software can help you do just that.
The ins and outs
We all know that recruitment is built on relationships. People work with people they like, and your CRM is designed to help you build those relationships by giving you a fuller picture. A database will often pull information from social media and other online sources, giving you more information about the person you’re talking to. It’s also naturally designed to store information and all your interactions, so you’re always in the know.
Getting personal
Everyone loves to receive personal messages, or something with your name on it. Something that we can say was designed exclusively for us. It’s why everyone went crazy over the Coke bottles with people's names on them. It made us feel special. Your CRM works to personalise interactions - keeping your candidates feeling wanted and cared for and, ultimately, making your life easier. At first you’ll have to input digital personalisation, however, your CRM then takes over and automates messages depending on various outcomes. Access Recruitment CRM sends out personalised messages, sets reminders to reach out to clients and, with candidate portals, it makes everyone's lives easier.
Keeping up
As a recruiter you have numerous candidates to keep up with. If you’re in the contract market, sometimes it's hundreds of candidates. Trying to keep up with who you need to go for drinks with, who you need to chat with and who needs what information is, quite frankly, exhausting. Your CRM can be used to input every interaction as well as upcoming dates. It will alert you when a certain number of months have passed and you need to reach out. Keeping candidates engaged is one of the biggest pain points for recruiters, and half the challenge is not forgetting about them when you have so many on the go!
At the drop of a hat
Any recruitment agency will have a huge CRM filled with historical and current candidates, meaning you have a huge talent pool waiting at your fingertips. When your clients are complaining that they don’t have access to talent, or they can’t find candidates with hard to find skill sets, all you need to do is search through your recruitment database. It's like a personal talent pool, from which you can pull up the candidates they’ve been looking for.
Staying on track
Your recruitment CRM allows you to communicate with your team, internally, on what’s going on with various candidates and roles. This means you’re all constantly on the same page and the information is recorded in the same spot. Nobody has time to hunt through weeks of emails for that one mention about a particular candidate, and why should you have to when it's all logged on your CRM?
