Recruitment Software Case Study: People Equity Start Up with FastTrack

October, 2007

Company

Founded by Gabby Simons & Murray Noble in late 2006, People Equity specialises in identifying mid to senior level talent across the retail, commercial and consumer markets, specifically in the disciplines of:

• Accounting
• Marketing, Merchandise & Senior Operations
• Sales & Marketing

Background

Like most start up recruitment businesses, People Equity did not have a team of IT or administration personnel at its disposal to help lay its foundations. Consequently, an early priority was to cement those systems that could enhance productivity but also free consultants from tedious administration duties.

It was recognised that a robust, all encompassing recruitment solution was required to assist with People Equity’s day-to-day recruitment activities. As explained by co-director, Murray Noble, “recruitment software capable of providing powerful database search tools, diary functionality and candidate / client correspondence efficiencies was critical”.

Useability was also vital, “the chosen system needed to be abridged and capable of providing our team with a timely approach. Having no administration person to handle time consuming processes, efficiency was non-negotiable” Noble said.

The Solution

Since the company’s inception, People Equity has utilised a fully integrated suite of FastTrack Desktop recruitment solutions, namely SkillsBase & Recruitment Manager, FastScan and FindIt.

Importantly, People Equity recognised the importance of choosing a fully integrated recruitment software product suite, both in terms of application interaction and ease of system upgrading. According to Noble, the decision to partner with FastTrack over other providers was based on the following: 

• Multi-search functionality – the ability to set the search criteria and keywords and their entire database, even resumes, are searched in seconds.
• Scalability – FastTrack’s product suite has the ability to grow with People Equity.
• Full integration – People Equity staff need only enter data once, from any point in the system.
• Client correspondence efficiency – benefit from e-recruitment strategies, bulk emails and generating mail merges.
• Reputation – FastTrack has been the leading supplier of recruitment software solutions since 1992.

For People Equity, one of the major additional benefits of partnering with FastTrack has been the professional support services - FastTrack support is available by phone, email, user guides and the web.

The Benefit

A year on with FastTrack, People Equity have experienced significant operational enhancements. As Noble explained, “candidate care should be of the utmost importance in any recruitment business. Working from an ‘electronic’ job file in FastTrack has allowed us to deal with each application once. This makes certain that we don’t miss any candidate applications, whilst streamlining candidate communication and feedback to ensure a timely and customised response to applications.”

Noble went on to explain, “FastTrack’s capacity to combine more than one candidate search method at a time is fantastic. With a national skills shortage taking place this has saved of lot of time in identifying potential candidates for roles”.

“Additionally, FastTrack’s ability to automatically save emails to files is great for keeping candidate and client intellectual property (IP) within the business. It also enables People Equity colleagues to know exactly what communication has occurred with a contact or client in case of short term staff absence.”