Recruiting the Best for Success

In the highly competitive market places of today, recruiting and keeping the right staff to support the mission of your organisation has never been harder.  Whether you are in the public sector, large or small private concern, recruiting new staff is time consuming and costly.  SDMS V Recruitment and Selection for Windows: Version 5 provides a comprehensive system for administering all aspects of Employee Recruitment and Selection helping you achieve better recruitment and retention success rates as well as streamlining your recruitment process. 

 The Complete Cycle

With SDMS V Recruitment and Selection for Windows managing Employee Recruitment and Selection has never been easier.  It reduces the administrative costs and delays often associated with recruitment, allowing you more time to ensure that the best recruitment decisions are made and the right employees stay with you longer!  Recruitment Administration Checklists, Reminders and Alarms, Quick Administrators and Business Rules built into the software ensure that deadlines and tasks are never forgotten, thus reducing the time and costs of recruiting.

 Tangible Benefits

SDMS V Recruitment and Selection for Windows provides tangible and measurable benefits, whether you are a specialist Recruitment Manager in a large organisation, a Personnel Manager, Training Manager with recruitment as one part of your brief or a Graduate Recruiter.

 Manage Recruitment Campaigns

From the identification of Recruitment Needs (based on employee retirement dates, temporary and fixed term post dates, planned maternity and other extended leave dates) creating New Posts, Campaign Planning, Advertising, Initial Enquiry management, Candidate Selection to Short Listing, Interviewing and Assessment, taking up References and Pre-employment Checks, as well as Final Appointment, SDMS V Recruitment and Selection for Windows does it all!  For the many standard letter writing and office tasks, SDMS V Recruitment and Selection Manager for Windows is integrated with a range of Office Suites, including MS Office^™for the production of standard letters, mailmerge and spreadsheets. It is also integrated with Outlook^™, QuickAddress^™ and MapPoint ^™.

 Minimum Data – Fully Integrated

At each stage in the recruitment process, the software only holds the data essential for each candidate at that point, thus significantly reducing data collection and cost. Further data is then built up as required as the recruitment process continues and the appointment decision is reached. Whether you need to manage a simple recruitment process or a complex employee selection process with detailed reporting and analysis requirements; SDMS V Recruitment and Selection for Windows is the obvious choice.

 Candidate Details

The Candidate Details held include: Candidate Reference, Name, Address, Post Code, Gender, Ethnicity, Disability and Special Needs, Current Employment and Salary, Notice Required, Educational History and Qualifications, Employment History, Positions Held, Training and Special Achievements. Supporting statements can also be scanned and held. Where candidate selection and interviewing is the responsibility of a single person, the software is simple and easy to use. But where required, the interview panel management functions of the software are available, helping you keep track of key tasks and dates including: assigning relevant staff to interview panels, set out diary of interviews and panel meetings, schedule interview panel tasks, arrange interview schedules and candidate lists; with links to reminders and alarms within the software, identify and search for suitable internal candidates by matching vacant or soon to be vacant posts by skills and competencies, qualifications, types of post held, relevant training and staff development, and personal qualities. A unique feature of the software is the Candidate Monitoring Form, which allows for recruitment monitoring to take place, even if full details of Candidates and the recruitment process itself are not held.

 Diary and Reminders

Keep track of all the important dates during the recruitment process via the Diary and Reminders features of SDMS: Application Closing Date, New Employee Start Date, Interview(s) Dates, Panel Meeting(s) Dates, Application Acknowledgement Date, Invitation to Interview Date, Reference Take Up Date, Pre-employment Check Dates, Confirmation of Appointment Date, Contract and Employment Statement Date. 

 Agencies

Maintain a record of all Agencies and Publications used.  Data held includes: Name and Address of Recruitment Agencies, Contractual Terms and Rates, Telephone Numbers, Fax and E-mail for all Key Contacts, Successful Recruitment Sources, Failed Recruitment Campaigns, Costs and Full Contact Manager Information.

Standard and Ad Hoc Reporting

The software comes with easy to use and flexible Standard Reports.  The comprehensive range of standard reports provided gives detailed analysis of the recruitment and selection process as well as practical day-to-day listings and schedules, vacant posts, vacancy recruitment schedule, panel memberships by post and campaign, equal opportunities, shortlists, recruitment costs, and interview clash lists.  Each standard report may be customised with easy to use report customisation screens.  In addition, SDMS Report Writer: Crystal Reports^™ is an optional module for the Recruitment and Selection software allowing the user to design and write their own reports.  

 Audit Trail Module - Industry Standard

The Audit Trail Module provides the ability to track all changes to the data entered in SDMS Software - when the change was made and by whom, thereby providing compliance with industry standards for data management with full traceability, accountability and security. This module uses the latest in Pervasive Database Technology – AuditMaster^™. More...

 Special Editions

Special Editions are available for Companies, FE Colleges, Social Service Departments, Probation Services, LEAs and Universities, ensuring that the unique recruitment approaches are supported.