PRESS RELEASE
Release date: 28th July 2014
Unique software update will reduce administration
times for recruiters
Recruiters increasingly tied down by administration will be
set free with a unique software update from rapid recruitment software, Mercury
xRM.
The new release of Mercury xRM features Candidate and Client
Portals, which will enable candidates to self-serve compliance information and
supporting documents. This will both reduce administration times and reduce the
risks associated with non-compliant paperwork for recruiters.
Most recruitment businesses either have no online compliance
or portal technology for their candidates and clients to interact with them, or
use stand-alone, non-integrated solutions which still leave loose ends and
duplicated efforts.
The Candidate and Client portals will be officially launched
as a function within Mercury xRM in September 2014, available to all existing
Mercury xRM customers as a free upgrade. It has been developed in response to
demand from recruiters after a recent poll carried out by the company found
that too much administration is one of the biggest challenges facing recruiters
this year.
As part of the new update candidates will be responsible for
ensuring key compliance information, which can include ID, Visa, insurance
certifications, limited company details and industry related qualifications,
are up-to-date and compliant with both employer guidelines and Government Right
to Work regulations. This will put recruitment agencies in control of
validating candidate information and reduce the associated risk of penalties
should the information not comply with strict industry rules and regulations.
UK Government regulations can enforce significant fines on
employers, including recruiters, for each employee who does not hold the
correct documentation relating to both personal identification documents and
qualification documents. Alongside this fine Government regulations can also
inflict much stricter consequences on employers and recruiters who knowingly
employ illegal workers.
Additional functionality available to portal users is the
update of their information directly within their records, CV updates as well
as vacancy and assignment visibility.
Mark Britton, Marketing Manager at Mercury xRM believes that
this new update will free up recruiters from administration work and help to
make the recruitment process even faster, while simultaneously ensuring that
all candidates’ records are kept accurate and up-to-date.
“Something we hear a
lot from recruiters is that they are increasingly becoming bogged down in
paperwork, and ensuring that candidate records are all up-to-date and compliant
is causing many headaches. The new Candidate and Client portal is our solution
to this issue and should speed up the recruitment process even more, leaving
recruiters free to get on with the core aspects of their work.”
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About
Mercury xRM
Mercury xRM is cloud-based online recruitment software designed and developed specially for the recruitment market by Microsoft Gold Partner and recruitment specialist, Crimson Limited. Designed by recruitment veterans, powered by Microsoft’s CRM platform, and integrated with best-of-breed recruitment applications, recruitment professionals value the intuitive and rich toolset within Mercury xRM that allows them to accelerate through the recruitment lifecycle.
For
further information, please contact:-
Mark Britton, Marketing
Manager, Crimson Limited on 01675 466 477 or John Edden, Bridge PR & Media
Services on 024 76 520025, e-mail john@bridgepr.co.uk.