Everything About Staffing and Recruiting Software

“Viral Marketing” is a term used to describe techniques that use social media in order to increase brand awareness and various other marketing goals. Typically, this type of marketing will appeal to individuals that have high social networking potential. The key to this type of marketing is that “word will spread” by individuals communicating within a “social network”. One of the most popular networks for business is LinkedIn®.

Whatever your view, Cloud Computing has arrived and it is changing everything. It is changing the way consumers interact, technology, and how businesses operate. The cloud has now changed how enterprises compete. It isn’t determined by the size of your business anymore; it is now determined by the size of your ideas and the capabilities of your technology.
Cloud can help staffing and recruiting companies in so many ways.

We are a quarter into 2012, and mobile recruiting is skyrocketing! Job seekers are becoming more technologically advanced. The old days of waiting around the telephone for recruiters and companies to call are now long gone. Social media has exploded. More than 1 in 3 US adults own a smartphone. Mobile tablets, like the iPad, are becoming the hottest, must-have technological device nowadays.

Uh oh. Your staffing agency has reached the dreaded decision: Is it time to upgrade your staffing software solution? Of course, every business owner has a reason to stay with the older version. “Everybody knows the old system.” “Research and training will cut into our bottom line.” “We don’t want to deal with the cost of an upgrade.” No matter what the reason may be, upgrades are a part of your business’s success. Here are 5 reasons why you should upgrade your software solution: 

Pinterest is the hot new social media site that has everyone up in frenzy. It is the fastest growing web site in 2012. The site reached 10 million unique monthly U.S. visitors faster than any other site. That is pretty amazing. In February, it has been recorded that Pinterest drove more traffic to online publishers than Twitter. Pinterest has now raised the question for companies across the board: How can Pinterest work for me? Pinterest has the potential to be a huge traffic driver for business services like staffing. Here's how staffing and recruiting agencies can incorporate Pinterest. 

Automated Business Designs, Inc., developer of Ultra-Staff software, is celebrating its 30^th anniversary this year.  Since 1982, ABD’s focus has been software exclusively designed for the staffing and recruiting industry. Ultra-Staff provides a completely integrated front office, back office, and web suite solution. Its trademark user interface and feature set is what makes Ultra-Staff a truly exceptional suite of products for staffing. ABD is well known for its ability to keep current with the ever-changing pace of technology in the recruiting and staffing industry.

Remember getting “brand new shoes” when you were a kid but you couldn’t wear them until your parent gave you the green light? Sometimes you had to wait until school started and other times they were bought for that “special occasion” that took forever to come. The excitement would build up right up until the day that you were finally able to sport your new look. And what a day that was. That is unless you were forced into getting something that you didn’t like. When that happened you looked upon the day with dread. Usually though, everything turned out alright. Sometimes it’s like that, isn’t it?

Many recruiting and staffing agencies suffer from one common problem: an absence of an integrated staffing software platform. Recruiters spend their days hindered in administrative busy-work, navigating though redundant practices, and digging through mountains of paperwork. The result? The focus on clients’ needs is slashed. Recruiters spend more time sorting and organizing, and have less time doing what they are hired to do: recruit. All of this increases costs, lengthens processes, decreases productivity and serves as a roadblock to getting highly qualified candidates through the door.

CRM recruiting is a cost effective, popular recruiting technique that better facilitates hires by combing relationship building and active outreach to nurture new leads as well as maintain loyal applicants already in your database. It’s vital for today’s leading staffing companies to proactively market and continuously connect with potential candidates, especially with the slow, but steady rise in employment rates. CRM recruiting can be one of the most effective tools in your recruiting toolbox.