Recruiting temporary workers can be challenging. From organising availability to making sure your workers know exactly where they’re headed to work each day, the administrative and logistical strains can detract from other tasks.
Access WorkView is an innovative app that allows workers to instantly complete tasks such as updating their availability, filling out timesheets, and finding vital information about their work placements, all from the convenience of their mobile phone. With these daily challenges alleviated by WorkView, your team can spend time on the tasks that matter most to your business.
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- Recruitment
In recruitment, the competition is consistently on your doorstep. From client companies with urgent placements to juggling workers’ availability, delivering on all sides and charging ahead of your rivals can feel like a difficult task. Alongside the 9 to 5, you need a simple, effective, and reliable means of keeping ahead. So how can you optimise your strategy and make sure your recruitment agency stands out against the competition? Let us share some of the top tips we’ve picked up from clients along the way.
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As a recruitment agency, having security in a loyal customer base is a wonderful thing. When you know you’re doing things right, delivering, and keeping your clients happy while filling the coffers, you’re in for success. That said, it’s important to always keep proactive and be willing to build your company to the next level. Pulling in new business is the first step to expansion – but how do you do it? Keep reading for our top business development tips for generating new leads and winning the best new clients.
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- Recruitment
Recruitment agencies collect a vast amount of data and this data could be invaluable to improving your productivity - as long as you know what to track and how to use it to inform business decisions.
Having a clear understanding of the insights available to you can be the difference between making informed decisions and sticking your finger in the air, so it is crucial that you know which metrics to track and how they can help you improve productivity.
Becoming more data-driven can help with long-term business impact and the need for accurate recruiting metrics has never been more important. Let’s take a look at 5 key metrics your recruitment agency should be keeping track of:
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- Recruitment
The recruitment industry acts as a weather vane. Whether a political change such as Brexit or when the economy takes a hit, it is one of the first business indicators.
March 2020 saw one of the biggest challenges facing not only the recruitment industry, but the entire world. As the COVID-19 pandemic took hold, the working of lives of millions were changed overnight.
From employees being placed on furlough, to a rise in redundancies and a seismic shift in working patterns. With national lockdown came an increase in remote working. Suddenly juggling home life with work and childcare, all in the same location, was a significant cultural change for many.
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- Recruitment
So you think you’re it with a cherry on the top, right? Every recruiter wants to be better, win new clients and be the big biller in the business… but not everyone can reach the dizzy recruitment heights of star-consultant.
Being the best recruiter does not equal showing up in your Audi and waving your Rolex around in people’s faces, climbing to the top requires some seriously hard graft. You need to be adaptable and able to focus on growth, as well as development. How you define success is up to you, but ultimately you have to have a basic understanding that it’s not all just about numbers on the board.
If you want to be a better recruiter then you need to figure out how to hack your productivity to make the most of your day, which will leave you with more time to develop relationships with your clients.
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- Recruitment
Pandemics are bad for the recruitment industry, we all know this now. So how do recruiters manage their cash flow during such a turbulent time?
Of course, the pandemic has been bad for everyone, but that goes without saying.
However, with the help of the furlough scheme and the economy slowly recovering, data shows the UK is experiencing a rebound in employment which means that the recruitment industry needs to be able to keep the money rolling in.
Cash flow is one of the biggest concerns for recruitment agencies across the country, and if you happen to be pay-rolling a few hundred contractors, it becomes an even greater issue.
So how do you get your hands on cash, and more importantly, keep the money rolling in?
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- Recruitment
In today’s market, according to our recent Recruitment Pulse Survey candidates are more cautious about changing roles. So a counter offer extended by their current employer may be even more likely to encourage them to stay in the current climate.
There are, however, strategies you can adopt throughout the recruitment process to help minimise the chances of your candidate accepting a counter offer.
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- Recruitment
At times, recruitment can feel like a constant battle. You’re always trying to find open vacancies, stay close to your clients and attract new ones, get the best talent before your competitors and ultimately fill roles before someone else does.
The UK recruitment industry is made up of over 29,000 agencies, ranging from small start-ups with a couple of staff to large global staffing firms. There are a number of character traits that can help you survive in the fast-moving recruitment industry. So if you are thinking of beginning a career and want to know what makes a great recruitment consultant, see if you have these attributes before you dive in.
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- Recruitment
Business development is crucial to the success of your agency – whether that be over the phone, through social selling, account penetration or via referrals.
In the latest Recruitment Pulse survey conducted in partnership with Talent Nexus, 81% of recruitment agencies ranked winning new clients as their top priority. With a global pandemic adding additional barriers to business development, it may be time to re-evaluate your approach.
Here’s our tips for helping business development become your core strength.
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- Recruitment
