Stan Beer
Wednesday, 06 August 2008 18:08
IT People -
Recruitment
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"They are the leading organisation in the UK," says Mr Lacy.
"All the major ICT recruitment agencies and many
of the generalists are on this system. It's been thoroughly checked out.
"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."
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