Is BCM appropriate for a start-up recruitment agency?

[Biscuit]

Hi

My wife is starting up an employment agency that sells both contract based
skills and also does permanant placements.

Agency software is expensive and overkill for a start-up

What we need is simple
- The ability to keep Customer Accounts and contacts
- The ability to keep details of applicants (including their CVs)
- The ability to keep opportunities (i.e. where a Customer Account has a
requirement)
- Leads and the requirements of the Job position (also known as vacancies)
- The ability to assign skills to an applicant
- The ability to match Applicants to Opportunities (does not need to be
automated)
- And the usual lead tracking stuff

Nice to haves
- Need others to be able to access the database (pref also to enter data)
- The ability to automatically publish Oportunities (Vacancies) on the Web

They key attribute I cannot figure out is
- Whether one can store the details of products in this case it will be
people with skills)
0 And the ability to match these applcants a vacancy

Please can someone advise me

Thanks

 

[finn.rudd]

I think you need to develop custom databases, such as in Access, so you
can make them work for your purposes, and modify them as you go along.
You want to be able to assign values to an applicant's skill levels and
experience from a text resume, sort & rank applicants by various
attributes, Similarly, on the Vacancy side, to find matches. . You
also need to be able to track both applicant prospecting, and employer
prospecting, etc., interview-feedback from employers' meetings with
applicants. I doubt you'd find BCM adequate.

 

[Seymour]

I agree with finn.rudd, especially if the transaction volume is high.
I would also say that it is a good starting point for a low transaction
recruiting business. You can make good use of BCM's project and opportunity
features

I know , I did with BCM 2003.

Seymour Hersh
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