NEWS

SMS IN RECRUITMENT

In this newsletter:

Struggling to fill positions on time? SMS job alerts solution Text Messaging holds the key to ensuring job positions are filled on time.

Cutting the cost of communication Cut unnecessary telephone bills and utilise the power of SMS Text messaging.

Adding value to your Recruitment Service Student Unions are beginning to see the benefits of using SMS to keep students informed of current events, jobs, finance advice etc.

Helping to bring Recruitment Agencies into the 21st Century A guide for Programme Administrators, Lecturers and IT Staff. Discover how SMS Server can help solve problems and create benefits for users in the Education sector.

Struggling to fill positions on time? SMS Job Alerts Solution

Perhaps the biggest headache for any recruitment agency is ensuring positions are fulfilled on time. Attempting to contact potential candidates can often be a frustrating, expensive and time consuming experience.

Imagine the following scenario. You have just taken a booking where you have promised to provide 30 Silver Service waiters by the following week.

Normally this would involve making 30+ separate telephone calls (often expensive landline to mobile calls) whilst you attempt to fill each position. Surely there must be an easier way?

Fortunately by utlising SMS Server within minutes of the booking becoming available you could text the relevant jobs details to all of your registered job seekers, therefore saving time and costly phone calls. Job seekers who receive this text message can then instantly reply via text and either accept or decline your offer of work.

SMS Server allows you to send and receive text messages using all of the most popular email applications (and 3rd party systems). Simply type the message into your email application and send. It is as easy at that. In addition SMS Server allows people who receive your message to reply as they would to a normal text message. This reply is then received directly into your email inbox allowing you to easily manage at your convenience.

M:Science SMS Server

M:Science SMS Server offers everything you need to setup 2 way Email to SMS capability. For more information on how SMS Server could benefit you contact us via email or phone +44 01202 241120.

Alternatively you could try out the product for yourself or request a web demonstration from one of our advisors who will carefully guide you through the features and discuss your requirements.

Cutting the cost of Communication

By sending an SMS to all suitable candidates for a vacancy rather than calling around you can make instant savings in both time and money.

A potential job seeker can then reply to this text.

This way you are offering a cheap alternative for them to answer your request.

SMS Server will allow you to make significant savings on day to day communication between clients and mobile agency staff. Keeping mobile staff updated via text message can avoid costly landline to mobile phone calls. SMS Server gives you the ability to allow a mobile user to send an sms text directly to an email inbox as well as reply to a messages that you have sent to them.

Typical uses for regular client communication includes alerting workers when pay is available and sending reminders to return timesheets etc.

M:Science SMS Server

M:Science SMS Server offers everything you need to setup a 2 way SMS text messaging facility. For more information on how SMS Server could benefit you contact us via email or phone +44 01202 241120.

Alternatively you could try out the product for yourself or request a web demonstration from one of our advisors who will carefully guide you through the features and discuss your requirements.

Adding value to your Recruitment Service

With increased competition in the Recruitment sector, trying to find ways to differentiate your business from the competition is becoming harder.

Problems faced include:

• Increasing competition to fill vacancies before competitors due to companies sending out the same vacancy to several agencies.
• The lack of client loyalty to a work agency. Often it is the agency that can get work for the person first that will keep a job seeker happy. If you can’t alert a candidate to a job before your competitor you risk losing valuable business.

SMS Server will allow you to offer a highly efficient service that lets your registered workers know which jobs are available immediately. You will have the ability to alert all potential job seekers of the position that needs to be filled and allow them to give you an answer immediately by replying to your invitation to apply.

You can also offer a service that helps to reduce the costs for the job seeker as they no longer have to call back the office to check for the latest opportunities.

M:Science SMS Server

M:Science SMS Server offers everything you need to setup a 2 way SMS messaging facility. For more information on how SMS Server could benefit you contact us via email or phone +44 01202 241120.

Alternatively you could try out the product for yourself or request a web demonstration from one of our advisors who will carefully guide you through the features and discuss your requirements.

Helping to bring Recruitment Agencies into the 21st Century

Their are many ways in which SMS Server could help you. Here are some examples:

• Alert all job seekers to latest available positions.
  Save hours that would normally be spent calling around potential workers.
• Allow job seekers to reply to message
  Offering the worker the opportunity to accept or decline work via text saving both you and them time and cost.
• Reduce costs of day to day contact with regular clients.
  i.e. alert them when pay is available, reminders to return timesheets etc.
• Database Cleansing – Keep your registered clients database up to date
  Send texts to ask whether or not a person is still looking for work.
• Reduce costs of communication between agency staff.
  Keep mobile staff updated with text messages rather than costly landline to mobile calls.
• IT Departments:
  Send job information to mobile IT support & receive replies back into your email inbox
  Setup SMS alerts for server crashes etc.

About M:Science SMS Server

M:Science SMS Server provides a fully scalable, two way, end to end SMS solution for communication with customers, suppliers, prospects, remote personnel or anyone with a compatible GSM device. The product integrates with any SMTP compatible groupware system including Microsoft Exchange Server, Lotus Notes/Domino and Novell GroupWise thus minimising implementation and user training requirements.

The product facilitates the sending of text-based messages via three types of transport:
1. Internet (using TCP/IP protocol)
2. GSM modem
3. PSTN/TAP dial up protocols

Developer API

SMS Server provides a fully functional Active X API for developers who wish to integrate the product with 3rd party windows applications or web based applications using Visual Basic, C++, Borland Delphi, VBScript, ASP or JavaScript.