Thursday 23 July 2009

Exciting times for IT Suppliers in the Recruitment Industry

In times of recession, it is when the great companies make the changes that allow them to out perform when the upturn comes. So rather than see today's conditions as a bad time, I consider it a time where recruitment companies are making changes that I have not seen since the introduction of Job boards and CV parsing.

Every recruitment consultancy should be challenging their suppliers to become partners, to understand what they do and how IT systems and suppliers must improve to give the consultancy the efficiencies they need to represent.

Social media is also changing what recruiters will do, how they will interact with clients and candidates and the current IT systems that recruiters have isn't built to deal with it.

Every supplier needs to step up to the plate and offer value to their clients, those clients (the recruitment consultancies) must also show its clients how it adds value in the recruitment process ahead of Linkedin and dealing with Ad responses.

Exciting time............