About Access Recruitment

Our acquisition of First Choice Software - specialist provider of recruitment software - represented a significant opportunity to broaden Access’s footprint in the staffing market.

Founded 20 years earlier, First Choice Software’s flagship recruitment CRM, RDB ProNet, used by some of the country’s leading agencies, including Randstad, Impellam Group and Pertemps Network, alongside ongoing service and support.

Access embraced the offering, enhancing functionality and rapidly growing the client base to a broader range of recruitment businesses. From temporary to permanent and contractors all agencies can find greater efficiency and productivity within their business.

With revenues of £18 million in 2016 and around 500 customers, Safe added significantly to Access’s existing recruitment sector capabilities, bolstering the client base to over 40% of the UK’s top 500 agencies and 75% of the top 20 agencies.

With its market-leading Pay and Bill product; Tempest (now known as Access Pay and Bill) and a number of well-known clients including Adecco and Alexander Mann, the addition of Safe was considered a game-changer for Access.

Safe’s newest product, a SaaS Employee Screening platform (now known as Access Screening), which offers companies peace of mind, efficiency and compliance management around the onboarding of new staff was also seen as a significant opportunity for all Access customers, beyond.

Access Workspace supports our mission to help recruitment agencies attract, manage and pay their candidates and clients.

The solution extends well beyond traditional sales system capabilities and into agency operations and inter-department connectivity.

Birmingham’s Recruitment Agency Expo in October 2018 marked the launch of a new redesigned version of Access RDB, our flagship recruitment CRM.

With superior functionality, a more initiative interface, personalised dashboards and smart analytics. The new cloud-based recruitment CRM aimed to address the challenge of productivity and efficiency to give recruitment consultants time back to focus on clients, candidates and business growth. 

With an emphasis on connected working, the new platform is delivered through Access Workspace – which will enable integrations to Access’s full suite of recruitment and business products.

Microdec, software supplier with over 35 years’ experience and 550 customers, including some of the world’s leading recruitment brands, was welcomed into Access.

Following this third acquisition in the recruitment market, we now support over 25,000 users and are in a position to deliver the most comprehensive solution to the market. This enables automation of businesses processes and helps recruitment agencies attract, manage and pay their candidate and clients more efficiently.

The acquisition of Volcanic, the leading provider of SaaS-based website and marketing technology platforms for the recruitment sector, demonstrated further commitment to Access' mission to drive innovation within the recruitment software sector.

Volcanic supports over 600 customers across three continents including market-leading brands and naturally extends Access’ product offering. It also reinforces our position as the UK’s leading recruitment software provider offering everything: attract, manage and pay candidates and clients.

In a drive to make it easier for customers to understand what our products do by naming these in a useful and functionally descriptive way, our newest version of Access RDB is known as Access Recruitment CRM.  

Access Recruitment CRM, together with Access Screening, Access Pay and Bill and Access Financials, and more recently – Volcanic, collectively form our Attract, Manage and Pay product suite.

Designed to help recruitment professionals improve efficiency and productivity across every aspect of their business operations.

Vincere, a global provider of innovative technology to over 20,000 recruitment consultants around the world was welcomed into The Access Group. The addition of Vincere’s recruitment operating system further enhances our unique breadth of industry-leading software and significantly expands the divisions reach across the UK and Europe, as well as our footprint in the Asia Pacific region, established with our Volcanic recruitment website platform.

The experienced talent and service capabilities within Vincere complements our existing wealth of recruitment experience in the Access team and will accelerate our vision to become the #1 provider of recruitment technology in the world.

FastTrack360 is a leading provider of end-to-end recruitment solutions in Australia and New Zealand and will support Access Recruitment’s delivery of solutions that underpin success for customers.

The addition of FastTrack360’s powerful integrated software for timesheets, payroll and billing will support Access Recruitment’s extensive suite of industry-leading software and will significantly expand its international reach.

In September 2022, Access Recruitment launched the FastTrack360 pay and bill solution to the UK market.