Soaring unemployment has left an average of ten people chasing every vacancy and despite the gradual turnaround of the economy this situation is unlikely to change. Recruitment agencies are working hard in a fragile job market. As a professional recruiter what can you do to increase your placements and your revenues? Your interview to placement ratio is a good indicator around performance. As a rule of thumb many recruiters work to 3 or 4, therefore needing 3 or 4 applicants to make one placement. Greater than 4 to 1 then recruiters would need to investigate what is driving this. But consider if you were able to increase your hire rate, how much extra revenue would that bring?
Many recruiters focus on finding a placement, choosing the candidate and getting an interview but little around preparing the candidate for the interview. This is a critical step in the placement process, having got your runner in the race it is essential that they will perform at their best during the interview. They need to stand out from the others and win the job.
Statistics show that 45 - 60 minute interview preparation can increase that important send to hire ratio by as much as 3 to 5 %. A counter argument to this could be the cost of a recruiter spending that hour with the candidate but there can be more cost effective ways of coaching your candidate for that all important interview.
Some Recruiters run Interview Master Classes and encourage their candidates to attend these where others prefer a self teach approach using On-line and Computer Based Training programmes.
ISV software who supply On-Line and PC Based Skills Testing to over 2000 recruitment outlets worldwide recognised that there was a real need for a cost effective, yet high quality learning resource that could prepare candidates for interviews. Laurie Dobson, Managing Director of ISV commented "Working with the recruitment industry we know how important it is to excel at the interview stage. Our skills testing software ensures candidates have the right skills for the job and now we can compliment this with expert interview advice from Top Headhunters, Managing Directors and interviewers."
Providing candidates with access to the web link or a library of DVD's such as those supplied by ISV Software candidates can learn in the comfort of their homes and free up valuable consultant time and office space. This could be the 60 minutes that makes the difference and gets that placement. Definitely worth Buying!
For further information on ISV products contact Rebecca on 02380 816600 Email: rchannell@isvgroup.com | 
