Following last month's announcement that we were short-listed for REC's award for Innovation, we're pleased to announce that our new resourcing tool, iPlace, has also been short-listed for the Association of Technology Staffing Companies (ATSCo) Innovation of the Year award.

This award recognizes the company which has brought to the Technology staffing industry market the most innovative or pioneering idea over the past 12 months and the results will be announced at ATSCo's annual ball on Friday 16th November at London's Royal Lancaster hotel.

iPlace, which was launched in March 2007, is already being used by some of the UK's biggest recruitment companies and the initial results have been phenomenal. One client has seen the productivity levels of its recruiters increase by 40% as a result of iPlace. Whilst another client has increased its recruiters' placement targets by 60%.

SkillsMarket believes that, in due course, recruiters will be able to double their monthly placements with iPlace.

Godfrey Morrell, MD at Abraxas, recently commented: "Thanks to SkillsMarket, our recruiters can now resource more jobs per day."

Anil Vithani, Operations Director of Red Commerce, said :"If Carlsberg did resourcing tools, iPlace would be it."

iPlace helps recruiters find good candidates in half the time as follows:

• One Tool to source candidates
  Recruiters are able to search their CV database, hotlist favourite candidates and view job advert responses from one place. This reduces the time wasted moving between different tools.
  
  
• Saved time sifting through irrelevant CVs
  Instead of searching on the entire CV, iPlace enables recruiters to search on the last job. This cuts down the number of irrelevant CVs by half. On top of this iPlace is powered by a unique combination of search engines including boolean searching, structured searching, radial searching and fuzzy logic to provide recruiters with significantly more accurate results in seconds. iPlace's search results returns an average of 4 times as many relevant candidates than the traditional boolean search engines that most others use.
  
  
• Instant access to qualified candidates
  In a candidate short market it is essential that recruiters maintain up-to-date lists of qualified candidates. iPlace provides recruiters with the perfect solution to easily store and quickly locate qualified candidates in folders that are kept up-to-date via a recruitment company's CRM database or the iProfile Exchange. Even if a recruiter leaves, the company still retains their best candidates via these HotList folders.
  
  
• Less time wasted sifting through job advert responses
  Most recruiters waste a huge amount of time resourcing in their email. iPlace solves this problem by giving recruiters all they need to handle incoming job advert responses quickly and efficiently. iPlace integrates with a recruitment company's job-posting provider to enable recruiters to quickly filter out the best candidates without having to read every single one.
  
  
• Aids quicker decision-making
  The detailed scoring system of iPlace allows recruiters to quickly identify the best candidates for the job. Whilst the iProfile summary allows recruiters to make an instant decision over whether the candidate is suitable without having to open up their CV. This is reducing the number of CVs recruiters need to review per placement.
  

To find out more, contact SkillsMarket's sales team on 020 7025 0555 or click here to email us.