Todd White, Recruiting Manager at Ewings Associates (4:05) www.ewingsassociates.com

A big piece of what makes JobDiva different for staffing, at least in my mind is that it changes the entire process of what you do. Everything that you use to spend the most amount of time on, you spend the least amount of time on. I know when I started with staffing; I spent a ton of time reading over resumes, a ton of time trying to figure out whether this was the person to call. All that sourcing stuff for the most part is done automated. I don’t need to have a sorcerer, I don’t need to have my recruiters wasting time on doing a lot of the sourcing type things which were when I started was 75% of the job.

Some of the pieces of JobDiva that are very useful for us are the spidering mechanisms that are involved with it. It allows me to allow each one of my recruiters the time to stay within the system and work with candidates rather than spending a bunch of time on each individual VMS site. That spidering mechanism goes out and pulls that job and allows us to see that job just about every five minutes. If there are any changes to that I don’t have to somebody doing data entry and I don’t have somebody checking it. It makes it much more efficient for me at managing it as well as for the recruiters to go out and recruit those different types of candidates.

There is a couple of big tie ends at least in what we find in professional staffing that job boards alone weren’t giving us and that was one the amount of years experience it took a human eye to go out there and actually look at every single resume and say how many years actually have these people been around. Have they done whatever the skill set was for two years, a year?

So on and so forth. The JobDiva tool actually allows you to do that right within your searches. A human eye does not actually have to see the resume to make sure that somebody has Java for five years or has been a CPA for nine years whatever it happens to be depending on the position.

The biggest thing for the tool that it allows for almost anything that you do within a staffing organization to be doing it within that system, if I’m keeping track of interviews, if I’m keeping track of statics on what a particular recruiter might be doing during the day when they are having success. I’m keeping track of how many people are actually getting mergers from us or getting emails from us, all those things are all within one system.

As far as JobDiva’s support and as far as getting started on JobDiva one of the best parts, I think that we found from coming from Bull Horn to JobDiva is the support mechanisms are there when you have questions. They are the kind of people that are innovative and willing to listen to what changes you think might need to be made or adjusted. Also, they seem to have the time to be able to explain why they have done something or why something has been implemented so you can make best use of that. Obviously, they take all that input from all the different vendors or people that are using it and try to make the best fit for all.

It doesn’t really take that long and your staff and company gains its value. There is a ton of resumes that everybody seems to paying so much money for at Career Builder, Monster, Dice and all these different places that come and go off of those databases. If I’m looking for something next week and somebody took their resume off I don’t have that person anymore. The harvester that works with JobDiva goes out and actually allows me to build my database up substantially. I actually even had some other staffing firms in the Minneapolis market brag about how big their database is and I could triple them in a couple of weeks. That data obviously creates a lot of value for the future of our organization.