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Technology people iProfile to change the way jobs advertised: ITCRA
Technology people iProfile to change the way jobs advertised: ITCRA | iProfile to change the way jobs advertised: ITCRA |
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| Technology people - Recruiters | |
| by Stan Beer | |
| Wednesday, 06 August 2008 | |
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Page 2 of 3 "They are the leading organisation in the UK," says Mr Lacy.Featured Whitepaper
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Most popular skills tags.NET Active Directory C# Cisco Development HTML Infrastructure Management Network Oracle Project Management SAP SDLC SQL Server Support Sybase TCP/IP Unix VB.NET Web Services/SOAP XML"We've had for instance the managing director and finance manager of Spring Group, which is the biggest IT recruiter in the UK, out here to address our members at meetings. Many of them have become convinced that this is the way to go and they need to be in it." According to Mr Lacy, use of the iProfile system will impact the job advertisements market. However, he did not elaborate simply saying: "It's going to change the extent to which they need to advertise for candidates." Mr Lacy says ITCRA is pleased to be playing an ongoing role in the introduction and promotion of the iProfile system. "The proposition to us to become the facilitator of the launch of iProfile Asia Pacific in September in Sydney was sufficiently attractive to us to want to become involved in it and many of our members have chosen to do that as well." One such member is large Sydney-based ICT recruiter Finite Recruitment, which has indicated that it is pleased to be an early adopter of the iProfile system in Australia. Finite's general manager Duncan Thomson said the system will automate a lot of processes and save a lot of time for the company. "We were slightly sceptical to start off with but the more we got into it the more we started valuing the product," says Mr Thomson. "What we found after evaluation, was that there were a number of things that it could give us an additional edge over. "First of all, the parsing service seems particularly good. That means it can take a resume and completely reformat it. We have a partly automated service at the moment but this is a fully automated service so the time that the candidate sends us a CV and have it physically loaded into our database instead of two or three days comes down to under five minutes. "It also formats it into a much more user friendly search format for us and it gives us good search facility. "Candidates also can go into the iProfile portal and keep their own resumes up to date. They can issue it to any of the job boards and there's a whole variety of back-end options that the candidate has for the first time. So that's a whole new service for the Australian ICT industry that the UK has enjoyed for a number of years." CONTINUED |
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