The Impetus Behind the Software

01Apr08

Anybody who earns a living recruiting knows that recruiting is an activity which lends itself well to inadvertently wasting time on activities that don’t translate into revenue. Successful recruiters know that impeccable time management is the number one reason for their success. Big billers are master time optimizers. They spend the majority of their time engaged in revenue generating activities like qualifying job orders, arranging send outs, developing clients and candidates and managing those relationships. Big billers do not spend time bogged down in unfruitful searches or manually performing a multitude of repetitive tasks associated with the job.

In a recruiter’s typical day, the following activities account for the largest percentage of time squandered which most negatively impact billing potential.

• Administrative tasks (invoicing, budgeting, accounting etc)
  
• Redundant manual processes (e-mails, job posting,
  
• Poor search skills (inability to perform fast and effective searches)
  

Effective time management is achieved by delegating these time intensive activities to a smart system that automates them.

Instinctively, I turned to software for answers. My quest for the world’s greatest recruiting software began in 2005. Surely, a profession that values the importance of time as a commodity like recruiting does would be teeming with productivity software for recruiters, right? Well, not exactly. While the industry certainly had an abundance of software to choose from, it was a challenge finding anything actually worth ‘choosing’.

I felt that recruiting software as a whole left much to be desired. And I still do. Consequently, I took the initiative to empower myself with the tools I envisioned by developing them myself. That initiative became InQuest recruiting software.

So, what are my major gripes about today’s recruiting software anyway? I am glad you asked.

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