How to Review and Choose a Temporary Staffing Software
Solution
Front and Back office integration. Evaluate
your needs for a centralized database. If both back and front
office drive critical benefit to your clients and candidates, then
give more weight to solutions that fully integrate those processes
- from customer relationship (CRM), employee search and retrieval
(ATS) and order fulfillment through payroll and invoicing.
Industry-specific. Certain industries have
unique recruitment issues best addressed by specialized solutions
such as medical staffing software, IT staffing software, healthcare
staffing software or accounting and finance staffing software.
Web-based. Internet-based staffing software
solutions that can be used from any location or device, including
desktop and laptop computers, mobile devices and cell phones, are
most efficient and convenient.
Lead generation. Staffing software that
integrates inbound marketing generates
business and saves money and time over cold-calling. Email
marketing, automated job board posting, and HR web portals all
generate demand for your services for minimal costs and provide
visibility in search engines.
Email integration. Choose a staffing solution
that provides options, one that is capable of hosting your email or
integrating with your existing Exchange, Gmail or other provider.
Email marketing software is a
core component of lead generation services.
Paperless processes. Paperless staffing
software processes reduce costs. Choose a solution that eliminates
all paper from the initial hire to ongoing HR and payroll
processes.
Electronic billing and accounts receivable. An
efficient staffing recruitment software solution will fully
automate paperless invoicing and
collections processes, reducing your risk and facilitating
quick client payment.
Time and attendance. Time and attendance
solutions allow you to capture time through online
time clocks, imported time collection files, and online time
card reduces fraud, improves security and saves many manual
steps thus saving money.
Customizable and configurable. How flexible is
the vendor in allowing you to make source code modifications and
how easily can the software be configured without source code
change to meet your business processes.
Vendor Management (VMS)
and Recruitment Process Outsourcing (RPO). If you plan on
staffing blue-chip employers, choose a staffing software system
that provides customer facing solutions that provide value-add
beyond staffing.
Customer support. Get to know the staffing
software company's support department before purchasing. Get
comfortable with the support practices. Can you call and expect to
get a knowledgeable support person on the phone at any time of day
(good)? Or is a call-back or email based system (not so good)?
Demo and Free Trial. Choose a staffing software
provider that allows you to get to know its product by making a
demo or free-trial version available.
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