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Recruitment Manager versus Recruitment Director

P&A Software Solutions markets two systems designed to manage staff selection: Recruitment Manager and Recruitment Director. Both have unique features and benefits.

Recruitment Manager is an ‘out of the box’ solution designed for small to medium sized organisations with a relatively low level of recruitment (providing occasional access to data for one or two users). The system enables users to manage details of applicants and vacancies, as well as basic information on interviews, applicant skills and medicals. Recruitment Manager is designed to consolidate data with Personnel Manager.

Recruitment Director is designed for organisations where larger volumes of recruitment need to be managed, and where additional ‘custom’ functionality is required. Users manage details of candidates and vacancies, agencies, interviews, referees, job offers and marketing activities. This can be extended to include a wide variety of additional areas. The Recruitment Director system consolidates data with Personnel Director.

The principal differences between the two systems are:

Multi-vacancy database  
Recruitment Manager allows users to manage many databases, each containing details of a single vacancy. Recruitment Director enables users to record details of many vacancies within each database and produce reports incorporating details from all vacancies. This means that candidates can be considered as applicants for more than one vacancy.

Financial Management  
Budgets, costs and other financial information can be recorded and analysed in Recruitment Director. Users can identify cost effective ways to recruit different categories of staff. Where recruitment is run centrally, the costs can be charged back to other ‘cost-centres’ within an organisation. None of this is possible in Recruitment Manager. 

Analysis of Marketing Activities
Details of recruitment campaigns and any associated marketing activities can be recorded within Recruitment Director. The most productive ways to generate suitable candidates for particular types of job (for a particular region) can be derived from this information.

Management of contact with Recruitment Agencies  
With Recruitment Director users can record details of any recruitment agencies they deal with (including contact details, rates, areas of expertise). Letters and e-mails can be generated from the system and sent to contacts at these companies Where candidate details are submitted via an agency, their records can reflect this and agency costs can be monitored.

Web Publishing  
Recruitment Director comes with a web-publishing module. This module publishes details of vacancies on an organisation’s web site, enabling candidates to browse and apply for positions. A comprehensive application form (including an optional ‘killer-questions’ page designed to enable organisations to pre-filter applications) ensures that extensive details of candidates are collected. This information is automatically recorded in the RD database. Significant savings in recording and processing applications can be made using this module.

Database technology  
Recruitment Manager records data within a Paradox database. This database does not require a database management system to be loaded and is quick and easy to set up. Recruitment Director records data using Microsoft SQL Server. MS SQL server offers enhanced data security, provides a far higher data-capacity, enables access by higher numbers of concurrent users, improves network performance, and improves resilience and reliability.

Screen Design  
The screen design functionality in Recruitment Director allows users to modify existing screens, and add additional screens to their system. They can record and manage a wide variety of information, and ensure the system meets their needs as closely as possible. Changes made to screens by users are fully integrated into the system and can be accessed from the report writing and letter generating functionality and managed in user-profile security. This screen design functionality is not available in Recruitment Manager.

User Profiles  
User accounts in Recruitment Manager have an access-profile associated with them. These profiles are defined by a system administrator (super-user) and determine the data (and functions) to which individual users have access. No security profile management exists in Recruitment Manager.

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