According to new research by specialist recruitment finance provider, Bibby Financial Services,
“Three quarters of recruitment agencies believe attracting the right candidates is the biggest challenge they face over the next 12 months but more than half are not spending enough on advertising”.

With SkillsMarket’s services it is possible to attract the right candidates without having to increase advertising spend. Research shows that up to 85% of candidates responding to a job advert are not worth putting forward to a client. JobsInbox by SkillsMarket saves recruiters’ time by relevance ranking incoming advert responses, enabling them to quickly identify those relevant for the role, and in turn, maximise the return on investment from advertising.

The research also suggests 63% of recruiters believe there is a lack of quality employees available in the marketplace to respond to their efforts in the first place.

With iPlace recruiters can find the best candidates in half the time. iPlace integrates with your chosen CRM system, job board posting provider and CV parsing solution to provide you with a seamless and highly efficient resourcing solution that is second to none. Proven to dramatically improve recruiters’ productivity, iPlace is an award-winning resourcing tool that brings together the best search technology on the market and allows recruiters to easily store and maintain the up-to-date records of candidates they have previously qualified as being good enough to place.

Edward Rimmer, UK chief executive for Bibby Financial Services, commented “Recruitment agencies need to scale up their marketing activities to widen the candidate pool available to them, not hold back on vital expenditure”.

SkillsMarket runs the iProfileExchange on behalf of its clients and enables recruitment companies to turn their CV database into one of their biggest assets. The iProfileExchange keeps recruitment agencies’ candidate pools up-to-date, thus effectively widening the pool of candidates available for placement. Keeping in regular contact with all the candidates held in a company’s CRM database is expensive and as a result CV databases are left to go out-of-date. The iProfileExchange is the only cost effective solution for keeping your candidate records up-to-date.

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