A recent article by Onrec magazine highlighted just how far CV parsing technology has advanced since we brought the first successful one to market in the late 1990’s. However, the article also highlighted where CV parsers fall short.

Recruitment companies that use a CV parser have found one major problem – it does not ‘eliminate CV administration’ as they claim and whilst a great improvement on doing this manually they still need to employ a team of administrators to handle potential duplicates, errors and to fill in the blanks that any CV parser leaves behind. One company had 9 administration staff and a 2-3 day backlog. Imagine how frustrated their recruiters were.

CV parsing is just one part of the CV processing workflow and you need an end-to-end service not one piece of it.

SkillsMarket is the only company to provide a cost-effective end-to-end CV processing service that incorporates the market’s best CV parsing technology with a fast, on-demand CV administration service.

Marcus Villa-Buil, Director of Veritas, commented: “Initially we choose to go with an off the shelf CV parser. Whilst it was significantly faster than manual data entry we found that we still needed to employ resource to manage all the administration that came with it and because it didn’t achieve the same accuracy levels as manual data entry we also needed to undertake our own final data accuracy checks. We eventually decided to switch to SkillsMarket’s CV processing service simply because they made CV processing easy by taking away all this admin for us.”

Manu Dell’Aquila, IT Manager at Abraxas added: “The great thing about SkillsMarket’s CV processing service is that we no longer need to worry about CV processing as they deal with the whole process for us. Our CVs are now entered into our CRM database within seconds of receipt for our consultants to search against, which is vital when speed is of the essence to making a placement.”

To find out more about SkillsMarket’s CV processing service, iProcess, or how we can help you keep your CV information up-to-date and enable your recruiters to shortlist in half the time, click here to email us or contact us on +44 (0) 20 7025 0555.