What is a recruitment CRM and how can it help my recruitment agency?

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By Alex Mcauley on 24th March 2023

Recruitment agencies have the crucial task of sourcing, attracting, and selecting the best candidates for job vacancies. The process of recruitment can be overwhelming, time-consuming, and costly. Recruitment Customer Relationship Management (CRM) software can be a useful tool for recruitment agencies to streamline their processes and improve their bottom line.

What is a recruitment CRM?

A Recruitment CRM is a software tool that manages and organises the recruitment process. It is designed to help recruitment agencies track, manage, and communicate with candidates and clients. It is a central database for all recruitment-related data, including resumes, candidate profiles, client information, job descriptions, timesheets and other recruitment related data.

Good recruitment CRM software can automate many of the recruitment processes, such as job posting, resume screening, scheduling interviews, and sending email communications. It can also provide analytics and reporting features to help recruitment agencies monitor their performance and make data-driven decisions.

How can a recruitment CRM help your recruitment agency?

Streamline recruitment processes

Recruitment agencies can save time and reduce administrative tasks by automating many of the recruitment processes. A recruitment CRM can help manage job postings, applications, resume screening, candidate communications, and scheduling interviews. It can also help to reduce the time-to-hire by providing a centralised database of candidates that can be easily searched and filtered.

Improve candidate experience

Recruitment CRM software can improve the candidate experience by providing a more personalised and responsive communication process. It can provide real-time updates on the status of applications, scheduling interviews, and provide feedback to candidates. This can help to improve the candidate experience, increase candidate engagement, and reduce drop-off rates.

Enhance client relationships

A recruitment CRM can help recruitment agencies build stronger relationships with clients by providing a centralised database of client information, including job descriptions, candidate preferences, and communication history. This can help to improve the quality of client interactions, increase client satisfaction, and generate repeat business.

Increase efficiency

Recruitment CRM software can help recruitment agencies increase efficiency by providing automation, analytics, and reporting features. It can help to identify areas of inefficiency in the recruitment process, optimise workflows, and provide data-driven insights into recruitment performance. This can help to improve the efficiency of recruitment processes, reduce costs, and increase revenue.

Provide data-driven insights

Recruitment CRM software provides valuable insights into recruitment performance, including metrics such as time-to-hire, cost-per-hire, and candidate conversion rates. These insights can help recruitment agencies to make data-driven decisions, optimise their recruitment strategies, and improve their bottom line.

In summary, a recruitment CRM can help recruitment agencies to streamline their processes, improve candidate and client experiences, increase efficiency, and provide valuable data-driven insights. With the right recruitment CRM software, recruitment agencies can optimise their recruitment processes and improve their bottom line.

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Andrew, Alex and their team are highly knowledgeable and fully understand the needs of a recruitment business, which shows in the recruitment software they have developed. The CRM platform is very user friendly, has all the functionality that you would expect to see (if you don’t, they will design this for you) and is regularly updated. The set up / changeover process is swift and straight forward and the team are always there to support when needed.

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Not only was the service exemplary, the quality of my website and CRM is outstanding. Brilliant value for money. The team at Nodex have given my business their undivided attention and care during this process. I wanted a site that was easy to use and looked slick; Nodex have delivered tremendously. The Nodex CRM is easy to use, affective and concise. I am very pleased. I would recommend Nodex in a heartbeat. Fantastic work guys, thank you very much. (From Trustpilot)
Dara Recruitment

We recently migrated to the Nodex CRM, taking up the opportunity to move to a nodex website as part of a fully integrated solution. Well...WE'RE DELIGHTED WE DID! Really pleased with the user experience, it has improved work efficiency no end, and the team love it. Extremely responsive support on any queries we raised. (Via trustpilot)
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A fantastic fast and easy service to use, along with a very supportive team at Nodex. Its helped spend less time on admin and more on selling. This CRM makes the workflow smarter. I would recommend it to anyone.
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When seeking a web designer for our new recruitment business, I initially approached a number of web design companies. Once I spoke to the team at Nodex, I knew straight away that they were the most knowledge company in their field. The service offered by the team at Nodex has been exceptional. They were on hand to offer advice, make adjustments and were very supportive from start to finish. I would recommend Nodex without any hesitation. Thank you!
Antella Recruitment

Exceptional service!! Nodex have been great throughout. The website and Recruitment CRM is absolutely amazing and has really helped us with the day to day running of clients and candidates. We would highly recommend Nodex to any recruitment agency looking for a website and/or CRM. 10 out of 10 (From Trust Pilot)
Global Vet Recruitment

Guys at Nodex are very knowledgeable, friendly and provide outstanding service. I was looking for a company to revamp our existing website, the team went through our old website and highlighted the issues that we needed to fix. They have done an excellent job in putting our new website. Would definitely recommend them to anyone looking to build a website. (From trust pilot)
Mera Peak Recruitment

Andrew and the Nodex team have been superb from the moment I asked for a demonstration on their CRM and i knew they would be the right business for me from them. Really easy to speak to, helpful and will go out of their way to provide first class customer service. Andrew has gone way beyond what I would normally expect and has helped me with tech issues outside of the actual Nodex products. Their CRM offers real value, easy to use and allows you to do far more than other options on the market and for a lower price! The connection with my company's website is also brilliant. I look forward to continuing to work with Nodex for the long term! (From Trust pilot)
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We operate a Pay Monthly solution for our recruitment platform. Pricing for this starts from £99 per month with a one off nominal setup fee of £299. This has everything you need to operate your recruitment website, including: our stellar professional website hosting, SSL certificates, daily website backups, minimal website updates and email support.

This is our preferred method of sale as it balances out the risk of a large outlay between both you and us, thus freeing cashflow to allow you to concentrate on marketing your services and growing your business.

We also offer more comprehensive monthly packages tailored to suit your needs.

Custom designed recruitment website pricing

If you would prefer a bespoke website design we can certainly accommodate your needs. Our initial build fee starts from £995. Included in your package is everything listed in the Nominal Fee Setup with the main difference being the length of your initial contract. If you would like to discuss available options please get in contact.

Each design is quoted on a client by client basis and starts with a brief, outlining your goals and requirements.

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