Recruitment in the Professional Services sector can be demanding and relies on having access to the right talent, with the right skills, at the right time.
Eploy's ATS (Applicant Tracking System) and Talent CRM is designed to help Professional Service companies take control of their hiring processes and support you throughout the entire recruitment journey.
Eploy provides a suite of sophisticated tools to stand out in a crowded market, ensuring your consultancy attracts the best professionals. With targeted job postings, engaging job pages, and AI-powered advertising, Eploy elevates your recruitment outreach.
Eploy’s CRM tools are designed to keep candidates engaged and informed. By providing a seamless candidate experience through personalised communication and feedback mechanisms, Eploy helps you build lasting relationships with top talent.
Eploy’s CRM tools are designed to keep candidates engaged and informed. By providing a seamless candidate experience through personalized communication and feedback mechanisms, Eploy helps you build lasting relationships with top talent.
With Eploy, management consultancies can amplify their recruitment marketing efforts. Its suite of tools, including social media integration and job board partnerships, ensures your vacancies reach the right audience effectively.
Eploy streamlines the intricate hiring processes of management consultancies. Its customisable workflows and intuitive interface simplify recruitment tasks, enhancing efficiency and reducing time-to-hire.
Recruitment in the Professional Services industry comes with unique challenges. These can be addressed by understanding the most effective candidate sourcing channels for the sector and anticipating potential changes in hiring levels throughout the year. Eploy helps recruiters in the Professional Services sector tackle these challenges and streamline their recruitment processes to achieve the results they need.
Professional & Business Services recruiters rely heavily on Careers/Websites for finding candidates (97%). There is also widespread use of Professional Social Networks, with 91% of the recruiters using LinkedIn, Employee Referrals and ATS, CRM & Talent Pools are also widely used for finding candidates.
60% of in-house recruitment teams within Professional Services turn to Agencies for help in filling their jobs. This percentage has increased from the prior year and can have a major impact on a company's cost of hire. It is worth reviewing other sources that can generate a good quantity and quality of candidates.
If we drill down on how Professional Services recruiters are succeeding with talent attraction the Sourcing Quadrant paints a clear picture of the various successful channels. Professional Social Networks, Specialist Job Boards, Talent Pools, Events and Agencies are all good sources for delivering candidates, with some of them being more successful than others.
Website/Careers sites lag behind slightly on the quantity and quality of candidates - especially considering there is a high take up on use (97%).
In Professional Services over the next 12 months levels of hiring are expected to increase by 43% or survey participants, with just 19% anticipating a decrease.
However, 45% of the survey respondents from this sector anticipate that recruitment marketing budgets will remain the same and a further 36% anticipate a reduction in budgets. A case of having to do more with less!
Measuring and monitoring, in real-time, every aspect of your hiring process will become of greater importance. With Eploy you get complete recruitment analytics built in to create customised dashboards.
With Eploy’s ATS you get complete recruitment analytics built in to create customised dashboards. As well as getting an award-winning Applicant Tracking System, you get a dedicated hiring manager portal and agency portal that's so easy to use and stay in control of your recruitment strategy.
The top challenges reflect the scarcity of suitable candidates, lack of recruitment marketing budgets and being unable to advertise salaries. Once again, building a diverse & inclusive workforce remains a challenge for this sector, which was cited by 31% of respondents.
Recruiters in the Professional Services sector will need to regularly monitor and measure the effectiveness of their sourcing channels. Research shows us that those who have an active metrics and analytics programme consistently report greater quality of the candidates they attract.
With Eploy you get complete recruitment analytics built in. You can create dashboards that measure and monitor, in real time, every aspect of your hiring process - including your recruiting costs.
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Professional Services sector hiring challenges
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“Automating our recruitment processes enables us to engage with candidates in a way that is expected with our typical target market of 16–24-year-olds. Eploy has the functionality we were looking for with its customisation, Video Interviewing toolkit and multi-posting functionality. Using the core system combined with the hiring manager portal and candidate portal has transformed how we operate.”
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“Unlike other vendors that had a model where the framework was rigid, Eploy could support our requirements and were flexible to our tight timescales that were dependent on the Milkround cycle and vital to engage with university students, and graduates. We had a smooth implementation of the core Eploy recruitment platform in just six weeks.”
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“The system integrates transparently with our own website and provides a straightforward registration process for candidates, saving even more administration time. We have also found that new consultants are able to pick up and use the system very quickly. In addition, there are many integral applications in the product that will allow Riada to offer further value added services to our clients in the future.”
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"On behalf of our clients, we manage the agencies involved in sourcing contract and permanent staff. Eploy allows us to give our clients one single point of contact and provides structure to the recruitment process; managing several different agencies can be very time consuming for all the hiring managers involved; it is an administrative and accounting burden and it's also very difficult to control in terms of the range of charges applied from agency to agency."
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“Not only does the service that PETA offer benefit employers, but it also follows a rigorous process to vet candidates to place on to apprenticeship programmes to make sure candidates are the right fit, and avoiding drop off to ensure the qualification achievement remains high.”
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“Before we worked with Eploy, we had a system that we used to work for, whereas Eploy works for us because you have the flexible functionality to completely build a process from start to finish of exactly what you need it to be.”
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"On behalf of our clients, we manage the agencies involved in sourcing contract and permanent staff. Eploy allows us to give our clients one single point of contact and provides structure to the recruitment process; managing several different agencies can be very time consuming for all the hiring managers involved; it is an administrative and accounting burden and it's also very difficult to control in terms of the range of charges applied from agency to agency."
Claire Proudlove
Head of Managed Services & Training
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PETA implemented Eploy’s Applicant Tracking System and Recruitment CRM to fulfil its requirements to recruit apprentices on behalf of employers looking for an effective way to grow talent and develop a motivated, skilled and qualified workforce.
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Riada Resourcing is a long-standing customer of Eploy, having worked together since 2005. Their mission is “To be the best for our clients, candidates and employees through commitment, focus and results” and the latest upgrade of Eploy is seeing that they continue to fulfil their mission.
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Securing the best talent through an improved candidate experience was a key driver in replacing OC&C’s Applicant Tracking System and CV screening tool. The graduate market in particular is a competitive one so there is a need to make sure candidates have a great experience and timely response.
