Recruitment Software

[Carrera2]

Anyone recommend any front end software for a temporary recruitment agency?

I've got a few ideas but I'd just like to compare products/prices.....it's for about 12-15 users and I'm either very naive with regards to prices or I need to up the budget a tad.

TIA

[Plotloss]

For 'er indoors business I customised ACT! 6.0

It doesnt do everything, like matching etc but its pretty useful as the data is fit for purpose not standard sizing etc.

[Carrera2]

Plotloss said:

For 'er indoors business I customised ACT! 6.0 It doesnt do everything, like matching etc but its pretty useful as the data is fit for purpose not standard sizing etc.

Is Act 6.0 a package in itself or something thats been modified?

You'll have to forgive my ignorance as I am at the mercy of techies when it comes to things like this.

[Plotloss]

ACT! is a contact manager, however you can delete all the fields its shipped with and replace them with your own.

So rather than pipline info and last contact dates etc ours is full of candidate and client information.

With a bit of creative use its doing the job nicely, not as well as a bespoke system granted but that wasnt an option at the start.

[RichardD]

Are those 12-15 simultaneous users? If so, then maybe the bespoke option would be justified. I know in my experience a good system can be created sometimes for an off the shelf price anyway....

[edc]

We used to use Bond Adapt for permanent, temporary and fixed term contracts.

[Carrera2]

RichardD said:

Are those 12-15 simultaneous users? If so, then maybe the bespoke option would be justified. I know in my experience a good system can be created sometimes for an off the shelf price anyway....

Yup all on at the same time. My problem with bespoke is that in the past it takes ages to design/build then an eternity to iron out problems. May have just been the devs I've dealt with though.

[Carrera2]

edc said:

We used to use Bond Adapt for permanent, temporary and fixed term contracts.

Yes I've used that before - from memory it's frightening expensive though.

I enquired 3 years back for a stand alone adapt system for one user and it cost £10k

[futie]

One of the companies in our group is Voyager Software. If I recall their main product is actually Foxpro based and has been around a while, but it keeps selling cos people love it and it does the job well.

[flyingjase]

Personally wouldn't touch Voyager with a barge pole (we used to have it). We now use Bond Adapt, and yes it is expensive but it will accommodate significant growth in our business and it's also very customisable.

I saw an ad in Recruiter recently from a company called Troy. A 5 user licence for £1250!!! "Troy in a box" No idea what it's like though.

If you're going to stay at around 12 users, and are not worried about improving functionality then there are loads of packages out there. If you want something scalable and customisable then you're looking at going bespoke or Bond.

Feel free to PM me if you want to talk in more detail (I've also used EZ Access)

[156er]

There's also ITRIS from Itec systems...used to use it as a general non-recruitment CRM which was a bit of a compromise. It had some really annoying issues with functionality (basically it seemed almost as if Itec were holding your data hostage!) but I think a lot of these were changed in subsequent versions and it's quite good now, although I've never seen the new versions.

[carrera2]

flyingjase said:

Personally wouldn't touch Voyager with a barge pole (we used to have it). We now use Bond Adapt, and yes it is expensive but it will accommodate significant growth in our business and it's also very customisable. I saw an ad in Recruiter recently from a company called Troy. A 5 user licence for £1250!!! "Troy in a box" No idea what it's like though. If you're going to stay at around 12 users, and are not worried about improving functionality then there are loads of packages out there. If you want something scalable and customisable then you're looking at going bespoke or Bond. Feel free to PM me if you want to talk in more detail (I've also used EZ Access)

Thanks for that - I'll check it out and get back to you

[obiwonkeyblokey]

I statred my business with a package called rdb start which was free for one user. I now have 11 people and it has adapeted well is cheap to use and has good support.

www.rdbpro.co.uk

[philly]

I know Troy Software Ltd well - my company provides the integrated SMS functionality in both Troy Enterprise and Troy-in-a-Box.

The clients we have using the SMS service seem to stick with Troy therefore it's reasonable to assume the software/support package is good. I certainly haven't had any complaints with regard to the Troy product.

I have no idea whether the software pricing is high/low/reasonable. For over 5 users Troy Enterprise is the package to go for and pricing is more "bespoke" than for Troy-in-a-Box.

Their main sales guy is Gordon Thomas - contact details from Troy's website www.troysoft.co.uk or PM me and I shall let you have his contact number/email.

Hope this helps

flyingjase said:

Personally wouldn't touch Voyager with a barge pole (we used to have it). We now use Bond Adapt, and yes it is expensive but it will accommodate significant growth in our business and it's also very customisable. I saw an ad in Recruiter recently from a company called Troy. A 5 user licence for £1250!!! "Troy in a box" No idea what it's like though. If you're going to stay at around 12 users, and are not worried about improving functionality then there are loads of packages out there. If you want something scalable and customisable then you're looking at going bespoke or Bond. Feel free to PM me if you want to talk in more detail (I've also used EZ Access)

>> Edited by philly on Monday 13th February 13:08