About iProfile

About us

iProfile are the creators of the dynamic profile for professionals, which is changing the face of the recruitment market by unleashing the potential of both jobseekers and recruiters. For recruiters it means making more placements, faster, and for candidates it means more control and feedback when job seeking.

We work with the leading recruitment companies, recruitment software suppliers and job boards to simplify the recruitment process by establishing the iProfile as the industry standard format for online CVs. Alongside the iProfile we have created a service called iPlace, that helps recruiters unleash the potential of their candidate asset base - by keeping their database updated automatically and enabling them to search for and place relevant candidates quickly, saving time and money.

About The iProfile

iProfile is the dynamic profile for professionals that is rapidly replacing the traditional CV. It is the preferred CV format for many recruitment agencies, and is easy to set up and update. More secure than a Word CV, you can control who sees your iProfile, and you can update as many or as few recruitment agencies as you'd like at the touch of a button. Nearly two and a half million jobseekers already own an iProfile and this number is rising rapidly.

History

iProfile, formally known as SkillsMarket was founded in 2001 by Daniel Elkins and Alex Charles. It first launched the iProfile to the UK IT market in 2002 and it was used by 100,000 jobseekers in the first four months. After various recruitment companies became iProfile compatible, including Hays plc, the iProfile was launched across all professional services industry sectors in June 2004. By July 2005, 1,500,000 jobseekers owned an iProfile and later that year the resourcing tool won the ATSCo's "Innovation of the Year" award. The number of iProfiles currently stands at over 2.4 million (March 2008).

What can iProfile do for your agency?

Increase productivity and efficiency, reduce costs and help you become more profitable. iProfile offer a range of solutions to improve the performance of your business. They include:

• Processing every CV faster, more accurately and cost effectively by enabling your organisation to benefit from industry economies of scale.
• Making your candidate information more valuable by keeping it up-to-date and by providing your recruiters with greater visibility over candidates' skills, contact details and availability.
• Reducing the time it takes your recruiters to shortlist by providing leading edge search tools. Centralising their workflow, capturing their knowledge and reducing the number of CVs they review per placement.
• Monitoring and driving your recruiters' performance by benchmarking their resourcing activity and ensuring best practice. Partners.

The company has recently announced its acquisition of PurplePassport, allowing iProfile to benefit from its experience and expertise in recording skills and tracking personal development.