We recently carried out a survey of recruiters to find out how much the average recruitment company pays for its IT, the results were diverse is the only way to put it ranging from less than £100 per head per month to over £500 per head per month and a whole lot of people who didnt know?
Then a couple of weeks ago at the APSCo Technology Leadership Forum we were looking at Futurology one of the contributors (me) suggested that one day we will give the RecCons a monthly allowance for their sales systems to cover their pre sales systems, their cv databases, their job posting software, their upgraded LI accounts and their favourite search tools.
How much should this be?
My starter for ten is £315 with £60 for Pre Sales, £115 CV database, £25 for job posting, £20 for LI and £95 per month for search tools.
This debate I want to get peoples opinion on! So please can I have comments?
4 comments:
Crikey Ray - need to get you in to negotiate our advertising deals!!! £25 is very conservative, though many businesses will use advertising effectively as an 'availability notification' rather than attract volumes of new CVs you've got to be looking at £250 plus (at a good rate that'll get you a couple of ads per day on Jobserve...)
Phil
I think it should be half of the said Consultants threshold on a monthly basis. Might be a bit much but justifiable!
Goose
Thats a cracking idea about the tying it to the threshold and depending on the organisation it could be a variety of percentages.
I think one day you will get an allowance for IT systems as part of your package
RP
Ray, given that most job boards seem to be in an endless cycle of increasing their rates, by the time you try and enforce these type of cost restrictions, one advert on Job***** will probably cost £25 each. I think giving the RecCons a fixed costs per seat in their team for systems is a good thing. However variable costs like job board spend should be made to impact on the commissions you pay consultants so that they get a better understanding of the P&L aspect of business as opposed to just focussing on revenue figures.
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