Recruiting is all about the ability to communicate and share information with potential candidates and clients directly. In today's technology-centric world, recruiters have numerous channels they can use to communicate directly with candidates ranging from face-to-face visits to video chat.
However, the one tool that provides a “single point of contact” allowing the use of e…
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Added by Collabor8 on November 22, 2009 at 10:30pm —
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Over the last couple of weeks we have noticed many Recruitment Software Companies announcing increases in revenue.
Whilst this is great news for the industry as a whole, we did a little research into the companies making such announcements. What we found backed up our thinking in terms of the future - Cloud Computing and Software-as-a-Service (SaaS).
We have been talking about Cloud Computing and SaaS on numerous discussions, blogs and communities, however the acceptance of SaaS based s…
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Added by Collabor8 on September 18, 2009 at 7:03pm —
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Following in the footsteps of a few others, here is a detailed #FollowFriday:
@animal
Host of the Recruiting Animal Show - tells you how it is - but I can see he is a very intelligent individual.
@BillBoorman
Very engaging, and a great resource. Radio Show every Monday 12pm GMT and 6pm GMT. Twitter doesn't seem the same when he's not tweeting.…
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Added by Collabor8 on August 21, 2009 at 2:30pm —
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There has been a lot of talk recently about Recruitment Technology, pros/cons, and how to make it more effective.
One area that we need to consider is Recruiter Mobilisation. What is this? - I hear you ask.
The term Workforce Mobilisation has been around for a while and has increasingly become a priority for organisations over the past few years. Originally, it primarily referred to providing your employees with mobile phones followed by access to corporate email and calendars.
Today, t…
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Added by Collabor8 on August 10, 2009 at 9:00pm —
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It's no secret that we at Pan Eight are big fans of Cloud Computing.
In-fact, all of our in-house applications are within the cloud. This includes:
- CRM
- Project Management Tools
- Email
- VoIP
- Virtual PA
- Invoicing
- Community
- Fax
- Document Library
- Instant Messaging
What this allows us to do is operate our business from an Internet Cafe, or even…
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Added by Collabor8 on August 6, 2009 at 7:00pm —
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Ah yes, the raging internal debate continues: Which do you implement first, the front office to manage your candidates, clients, jobs and placements, or the back office to manage your payroll, billing and financials?
It is a debate we have heard many times between Recruiters and Payroll Administrators, between Operations Directors and Finance Directors, even between CEOs and CFOs!
The answer is simple:
FRONT OFFICE. And here is the justification to what we believe is best practic…
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Added by Collabor8 on July 17, 2009 at 11:14am —
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At Pan Eight, we are always getting asked: "What is it exactly that you do?".
The reason for this is simple:
There are not too many companies out there that provide the type of service that we do. So for us, this is an educational process. To that end, here is the Pan Eight for Dummies overview! (Please don't take the 'dummies' part personnally!)
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Added by Collabor8 on July 10, 2009 at 12:30pm —
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Listening to
Bill Boorman's Radio show today got me thinking about the impact of new Recruitment Database implementations on the Candidate experience.
During the many Recruitment Database / Front office automation implementations we have performed, we come across many questions relating to best methods to attract candidates.
In particular, recruitment leaders often ask us whether it is worth creating 'Dummy Jobs' on jobboa…
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Added by Collabor8 on July 6, 2009 at 1:30pm —
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In talking with our clients with regards to what they require from a new Front Office Recruitment Solution, many talk about the ability to send Text Messages/SMS, or configurable workflow, or perhaps integration with external websites/jobboards.
However, as technology and internet culture evolves, so should the corresponding RFPs for the software.
Here are just a few questions that we now ALWAYS talk about when producing RFPs:
Question 1: How is your system optimised for search engi…
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Added by Collabor8 on June 16, 2009 at 10:25pm —
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There has been a lot of news and excitement about Google Wave over the last few days. Not just from Software Developers who can see a whole new technology market opening up, but also people like myself - who love to see how technology evolution can be used and realistically mapped to business challenges.
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Added by Collabor8 on June 4, 2009 at 6:30pm —
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At Pan Eight, we are big fans of Ning. Our Collabor8 community is developed on the Ning Platform as it provides an easy and rapid way of implementing and growing your own social network and community.
Ning powers thousands of groups, including some on recruitment ma…
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Added by Collabor8 on June 1, 2009 at 5:00pm —
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At Pan Eight Consulting, we have worked with a number of clients who have experienced candidate or customer data theft in some shape or form.
The economic downturn is leading to an increase in data theft, with recruitment agencies the worst hit sector and most susceptible.
Increasing competition for a diminishing number of client job offers among agencies is causing a rise in data theft.
Based on a recent survey, among recruiters, three quarters of data theft was via a computer, includ…
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Added by Collabor8 on May 21, 2009 at 9:44pm —
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Twitter is surprisingly good tool for recruitment. You can track the conversations and when used in conjunction with LinkedIN or any other tool it shows the real time live activity of the person. As does Facebook. Monster or any other CV database will never tell you that. An application…
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Added by Collabor8 on May 18, 2009 at 8:30pm —
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"It is not the strongest of the species that survive, nor the most intelligent, but the one most responsive to change." - Charles Darwin
Continuous implementation of new technologies, integrating with existing systems, and ensuring cost-effectiveness, places a never-ending stream of challenges before Recruitment Companies.
Most companies today realise the criticality of managing technology changes. They understand that by merely investing in new technology, without…
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Added by Collabor8 on May 13, 2009 at 4:00pm —
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In a perfect world every project would be "on time and within budget." But reality (especially the proven statistics) tells a very different story. It's not uncommon for projects to fail. Even if the budget and schedule are met, one must ask "did the project deliver the results and quality we expected?" True project success must be evaluated on all three components. Otherwise, a project could be considered a "failure."
Have you ever seen a situation where projects begin to show signs of disorga…
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Added by Collabor8 on May 5, 2009 at 12:30am —
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At Pan Eight, we are always looking at new technologies, concepts and ideas that allow recruiters to be more productive, reduce overheads, and obtain a competitive edge - whilst focussing on what they do best: generate revenue and maintain growth.
On a previous blog article, we talked about
Web 2.0, and how we are excited by its concepts, and application to recruitment and hr.
At some point, most if no…
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Added by Collabor8 on April 28, 2009 at 12:00pm —
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A new breed of consultant is emerging.
Web 2.0 has seen the introduction of new technologies, products and concepts that are set to change how we do business within recruitment and human capital management.
With this emergence, the technology consulting landscape has also evolved from the traditional brand of consultancy, to the concepts defined by the Consulting 2.0 paradigm.
Consistent with the value proposition of SaaS and Cloud Computing, Consulting 2.0 is focused on the realisatio…
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Added by Collabor8 on April 27, 2009 at 8:30pm —
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Evolve. It is what every company must do in order to remain competitive.
If you’re still using an outdated or insufficient system like MS/Excel, ACT, Goldmine or even Outlook to operate your business, it is time to consider the newer products available that will increase your productivity, place candidates faster, and enhance your bottom line.
If you haven’t searched for new products lately (or even if you have), you may be surprised by the number of providers, pricing levels, and…
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Added by Collabor8 on April 7, 2009 at 5:30pm —
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Pan Eight Consulting has a significant amount of experience writing and delivering business cases that not only justify ROI, but provide a means to measure the success of a project. But why is it important to define and deliver a business case?
A project brief describes what needs to be done. The project plan explains how you are going to do it.
The business case gives the reasons why.
In PRINCE2 terminology, the business case is the "driver" of the project. Senior managem…
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Added by Collabor8 on April 6, 2009 at 9:00am —
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Pan Eight Consulting is committed to Green IT.
Green computing is the study and practice of using computing resources efficiently. At Pan Eight, we fully incorprate Green IT practices into our consulting methodology. This ensures that our clients not only receive a valuable service…
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Added by Collabor8 on March 19, 2009 at 11:00am —
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