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10 reasons your current CRM system isn’t right for you

1. It’s restricting your growth

Your current system is dated and struggling to meet your consultants’ demands. It doesn’t work perfectly in a web browser and your recruiters need to create new applicants, update information, search, match and place candidates in new roles and quickly. Do you have limited faith that your system will be able to grow with you?

Posted 24/01/2019

2. Lack of KPI tracking

Do you struggle to get live KPI information for the metrics you want to track? The best systems will visually display everything from the number of candidates created, CVs sent on spec, new jobs created and interviews booked to placement fees. Choose to see this information in actuals or percentages, see daily, weekly or monthly results for individuals, teams or offices and create leader boards to display metrics and help consultants to track their own targets.

3. Difficult to use

Your team struggles with a clunky difficult to use system. They dream of having a super simple CRM that’s intuitive, great looking and makes searching, placement and reporting easy for non-techy users. They also want remote access from anywhere at any time so they can focus on spending time with clients and candidates.

4. Need business development help

You’d like your CRM to come with business development tools to help you better manage client, candidate and contact communications so you can send tailored and targeted emails and text messages as well as create notebook items to record information.

5. Limited by functionality

You’re not able to search, segment and easily find candidates (whether by experience, location, name or working hours required). You’d also like to batch send messages to candidates directly from the system, drag and drop CVs quickly and easily post new roles out to job boards.

6. You need to reduce the cost and hassle of IT

By moving to a cloud based CRM you can instantly lower your operating and hardware costs, remove the need for IT infrastructure and reduce the administrative burden of having to
maintain systems. On top of that you’ll be able to be more competitive with access to faster fully optimised cloud infrastructure – helping you to act faster and grow quickly with no extra costs or IT headache.

7. You want to be compliant

You lack reassurance that your current system has been developed by UK specialists who truly understand the latest GDPR changes, data protection regulations, Agency Workers Regulations and Working Time Directive and want to want with a provider that can provide you with peace of mind.

8. Cluttered with features

Your software is full of buttons, menus and taskbars that you don’t use or even need. If you just manage temp or perm roles or you don’t need to export payroll or manage timesheets you most likely want a dashboard that only displays exactly what you need. Switch to the right software and simply choose what you want to show with the option to expand later if required.

9. Not using the latest version

Your current CRM provider keeps telling you that you need to migrate to a newer version or have your software reinstalled. Instead you want a CRM that updates automatically so you’re always using and getting the most from the latest version with no more updates and no more patches.

10. Juggling multiple systems

You place temporary and permanent staff so need a system capable to manage all types of recruitment. On top of that your consultants, finance, admin and HR staff all use separate systems which is not only costly but time consuming to manage multiple suppliers. If only you had one recruitment platform that everyone in your recruitment business used.