Bond International Software Key Sponsor at World Leaders in Recruitment Conference 2011

globeBond International Software, http://www.bondinternationalsoftware.com the recruitment process software provider, will be the main sponsor at World Leaders Conference held on 13th October at Royal Bank of Scotland, 250 Bishopsgate, London.

As the only staffing solutions software provider to sponsor the conference, Bond demonstrates its commitment to strengthening the recruitment industry by sharing its suite of technology solutions with the market.

Representatives of Bond will be showcasing the recently launched latest version of Bond Adapt – the specialist portfolio of recruitment process applications. New developments such as AWR workflow, integration with a number of industry tools – such as LinkedIn and Drag&Tag – and newly developed features to aid recruiters’ day-to-day activities, will be displayed.

The new version of staffing solutions software, Bond Adapt, available as a Software-as-a-Service or on-site deployment, has a wide selection of new additional features, specifically designed to enhance the software’s practical ease of use and breadth of function, the combination of which has not previously been available in a single recruitment package as standard. Visitors to the REC National Convention are invited to witness first hand the enhanced functionality of the latest developments to Bond Adapt.

Now in its 14th year, the World Leaders Conference is renowned within the industry for being the most influential and thought provoking event of its kind. This year, the Conference will focus on recruitment business development, and offers visitors a chance to meet with and listen to high profile speakers from across the globe, who will offer presentations and advice on to build business, and how to invest in the industry. Exhibitors, such as recruitment process software provider, Bond, will give visitors the opportunity to discover how their day-to-day activities may be improved with a series of recently launched recruitment initiatives.

Tim Richards, Managing Director, Bond International Software (UK)
, comments, “We are keen to offer our support to recruitment events across the market, but as a world leader in the staffing solutions technology industry, we count The World Leaders in Recruitment Conference as a primary event on our calendar. This year, we are delighted to be the headline sponsor at the Conference, as it provides us with not only a great opportunity to network with industry peers and learn more about how we can develop our own recruitment process software solutions, but also, the opportunity to raise the profile of the latest version of Bond Adapt. We have spent a great deal of time and resource in introducing the new features to Bond Adapt, and as we are committed to continuing the development of our staffing solutions software in line with industry demand, we feel that participation in events of this calibre is fundamental to our success.”

Bond to sponsor ‘Recruitment Conference Law Taxation Series 2011’

BondLogoNewRecruitment Consultant, the UK’s leading magazine to the staffing industry, holds quarterly Law and Taxation breakfast seminars to discuss topical issues and debates. This quarter, the seminar will focus on the forthcoming Agency Workers Regulations, and leading legal tax experts, Osborne Clarke will be on hand to share key information about how business requirements may change as a result of the upcoming legislation. 

From the 1st October 2011, the Agency Workers Regulations state that agency workers, once in a consistent role at the same company for 12 weeks, will have the right to receive equal treatment with regards to pay and basic working conditions, as permanent staff directly hired by the organisation. The seminar therefore aims to help visitors to make any vital last minute checks to their business to ensure compliance. 

Following on from a successful client event that Bond recently held on the subject of AWR compliance, Bond International Software will be sponsoring Recruitment Consultant’s latest breakfast seminar. Following this event, AWR software specialist Bond will be inviting prospective clients to view exclusive demonstrations of the brand new AWR workflow within the latest version of staffing agency software Bond Adapt.

Jim Tanfield, Editor of Recruitment Consultant, comments“As of the 1st October, the temporary recruitment landscape will be virtually unrecognisable from anything that recruiters have previously been used to. As such, our seminar stands to educate those who remain in the dark about how to become compliant with the regulations. As the only software provider to sponsor our event, AWR software provider Bond is demonstrating a fierce commitment to providing the market with answers as to how the AWR may affect specific processes, as well as entire business practices.” 

Tim Richards, Managing Director of Bond UK, comments, “The Recruitment Conference Law Taxation Series provides us with the ideal platform to demonstrate conclusively to the entire industry that we are leading the market in taking AWR software so seriously and have provided solutions that enable recruiters to become and remain compliant with the legislation.”

Held at One London Wall, London, the breakfast seminar has been organised to ensure recruitment consultancies are fully prepared for the forthcoming Agency Workers Regulations, to be introduced on the 1st October this year.

As the only software provider to sponsor the seminar, Bond International Software is further demonstrating its commitment to helping its clients to become and remain AWR compliant with its AWR software, Bond Adapt.

Morgan Hunt Saves £300,000 a Year in Improved Employee Productivity

Morgan Hunt 200x200Morgan Hunt, the award-winning recruitment firm, has achieved record annual savings thanks to its purchase of SmartPhone  – the market-leading Computer Telephony Integration (CTI) solution in the UK. 

SmartPhone integrates with Bond Adapt, the specialist portfolio of recruitment software applications, such that when candidates call in, their details are automatically displayed onscreen within the Adapt system.

Due to the fact that SmartPhone increases the number of calls able to be handled by each consultant by 20%, and therefore vastly increases staff productivity, the integration with Bond Adapt has been credited with delivering Morgan Hunt with in excess of £300,000 in additional revenue & efficiency savings in one year alone.

Morgan Hunt provides a range of recruitment, consultancy and headhunting services to leading global firms, SMEs and government bodies. Based in the UK with further offerings in Russia, the company’s 150 recruitment consultants currently manages over 300,000 candidate records, and places on average 450 candidates on a monthly basis.

Since purchasing Bond Adapt from Bond International Software five years ago, Morgan Hunt has been named the “Public Sector Recruiter of the Year” four times, a recognition which places them over 300 public sector recruiters alone. Morgan Hunt focuses on placing candidates in public sector vacancies, as well as those in the construction, finance and private sector health industries and is now successfully diversifying into other private sector areas.

Due to the nature of the vacancies and candidates applying, Morgan Hunt’s recruitment consultants are required to deal with large numbers of non-UK citizens on a daily basis, which has the potential to result in inadvertent poor customer service due to cultural and linguistic barriers.

Gavin Megnauth, Director of Operations at Morgan Hunt, explains“Our consultants each make approximately 110 calls on a daily basis, trying to place candidates in suitable roles. Investment in SmartPhone and Bond Adapt means each of our recruitment consultants are able to make 20% more calls each day as the time taken for each one is reduced, a feat which has delivered us in excess of £300,000 additional annual revenues & efficiency savings in the last 12 months. This coupled with our enhanced customer service means the integration of SmartPhone with Bond Adapt has been an investment of huge value to us this year.

Megnauth continues, “In the public sector, many of the candidates for temporary positions are from Eastern Europe, the Asian subcontinent and the African nations. For instance, we deal with a number of healthcare professionals that come from the Asian subcontinent and Africa, whilst a high proportion of Polish and other Eastern European nationals are placed in construction vacancies. To have a candidate calling into our offices to make an enquiry and then having to repeat or spell out their name four times so that the consultant can bring up their details onscreen is not only time-consuming and inefficient, but it also damages the customers’ perception of our service and business as a whole.”

Megnauth continues“SmartPhone allows our staff to see which caller is calling before they pick up the phone via its ability to monitor and immediately identify all callers by their telephone number. Integration with our existing Bond Adapt software means that when candidates now call our recruitment consultants, their records automatically appear onscreen. This allows the consultant to identify which of their colleagues last dealt with the candidate, the type of vacancies they have been searching for and at what stage of the application process they are – permitting any consultant to handle any inbound enquiry equally effectively, thus further improving customer service. In the currently challenging market, where there are numerous candidates fighting for a handful of jobs, and over 10,000 recruitment companies scrambling to place them, this capability is a tangible differentiator for us for our customer service offerings.”

Whilst this has only been deployed in the UK at present, Morgan Hunt has plans to roll out SmartPhone integration with existing Bond Adapt software to its 40 consultants at its Russian sites in Moscow and St. Petersburg in the near future.

Megnauth concludes, “The fact that our recruitment consultants can now work far quicker and more efficiently has allowed us to make substantial annual savings, a feat which simply would not have been possible without investment in Bond Adapt and SmartPhone.”

For more information about how you can benefit from the functionality in the latest version of Bond Adapt, call us today on 01903 707070.

For more information about Smartphone please go to http://www.footprint-tele.com
For more information about Morgan Hunt please go to http://www.morganhunt.com 

Bond Awarded Membership to APSCo

APSCO 200x200Bond International Software, the worldwide recruitment agency software provider today announces its membership to The Association of Professional Staffing Companies (APSCo).

As an affiliate member of APSCo, Bond will receive a range of recruitment system benefits, including extensive networking with industry peers through regular meetings and special interest forums. There will also be the opportunity to discuss recent trends and industry standards with APSCo – with a view to developing and promoting suitable best practice. As such, the membership will give Bond a strong competitive edge over many in the marketplace and will ensure that the Bond portfolio accommodates the changing face of the industry as rapidly and reliably as possible.

Bond has recently announced a number of additions to their staffing agency software portfolio, including dedicated software for the field of executive search with the development of Bond Vantage. Bond Vantage has a set of features that are specifically aimed at all levels and areas within an executive search consultancy, from administration to research and consultancy. This allows vital candidate or corporate intelligence to be accessed in a timely manner, maximising the visibility of the executive search consultancy’s information. Technological enhancements to the Bond Adapt recruitment system are also currently being implemented; which are due for release at the end of 2010. As a direct result of the opportunities that Bond’s APSCo membership will bring, further industry- and vertical-specific products are likely to be developed to accommodate particular needs.

Ann Swain, CEO of APSCo, comments, “Bond were able to show several glowing references for their excellent portfolio and recruitment system service delivery and passed all requirements to evidence that they adhere to a clear code of practice in order to promote professionalism. We are therefore delighted to award them APSCo membership – Bond is a global leader in recruitment software and we are certain that they will be a highly valuable asset to the APSCo association.”

Bond International Software is the leading provider of fully configurable staffing and recruitment agency software and supports over 100,000 staffing professionals in 42 countries. Bond is the recruitment system software of choice for many of the largest staffing companies in the world.

Tim Richards Managing Director of Bond International Software, concludes, “We are delighted to be awarded membership to APSCo. To be part of an influential governing body which has such a far reach throughout the industry is an excellent move for us and affirms our dedication to the interests and needs of the industry. Staffing never stands still, and so we are delighted to be provided with the forum from which to discuss the ways in which our staffing agency software services can help the industry further.”

APSCo is the UK’s leading professional recruitment industry body, and provides a unified powerful voice for the recruitment industry. Current APSCo members include small specialist independents through to publicly quoted companies. APSCo represents the interests of recruitment organisations, provides a recognised stamp of quality assurance for staffing agency software products and affords APSCo members business intelligence, industry solidarity and a clear commercial advantage.

To find out how you can join APSCo, please visit www.apsco.org

For further information about the latest version of Bond Adapt featuring industry leading technical innovations and enhancements, please contact us on 01903 707070 or email us at sales@bond.co.uk

Bond Celebrates 37 Years as Number One Recruitment Software Supplier

BondLogoNewToday, Bond International Software celebrates its 37th year in the recruitment industry. Over almost four decades, Bond has provided recruitment companies – from small independent firms to large international enterprises – with recruitment and HR support via outsourced services and tailored software packages.
To name just a few of Bond’s recent triumphs; its Mobile Recruitment Suite has been showcased, its Executive Search software, Bond Vantage, has been launched, and its case management system, Bond Adapt Employ, has broken into the specialist employment services market, proving that 2010 really has been Bond’s year for innovations!
With over 3,000 international customers and 100,000 global users to date, Bond is the number one choice for the top recruiters in the world. Regularly strengthening its position as the leading provider of recruitment and human capital management software, Bond has continued to provide innovation after innovation to pave the way in the industry. This year, its flagship product Bond Adapt– the specialist portfolio of recruitment software applications – has continued to be developed and enhanced to meet market demands. It is still the only product of its kind which is 100% configurable and fully scalable. As a clear sign of the excellence in quality offered by Bond’s products, Bond International Software has just been confirmed as members of APSCO – the professional body and unified voice for the Recruitment and Staffing market. This membership will give Bond’s brand and product messages great recognition and leverage within the industry, thus further offering the opportunity to keep in-touch with, and work actively alongside, clients and prospects alike.
A Year of Innovations
The development of Bond Vantage saw Bond International Software move into the field of executive search. Bond Vantage is based upon the technology which has proven so successful for its well established cousin, Bond Adapt, but has been specially designed to meet the requirements of executive search firms.
This year has also marked the launch of Bond People Services, a bespoke HR and personnel outsourcing solution that provides tailored programmes of HR support. Bond People Services supplies outsourced HR support that can either be provided independently or as a bespoke package to either support or replace the HR arrangements already in situ. The service can also complement Bond’s outsourced payroll solution, Bond Payroll Services, highlighting how services from Bond International Software either work independently or together to support organisations of any size in their back office processes.
Bond has also recently launched case management system Bond Adapt Employ to support Welfare to Work (the Work Programme) Partners and specialist employment services. This move sees Bond Adapt breaking into new markets, highlighting the fact that Bond is at the forefront of providing innovative, leading products.

Excelling in Customer Service

Adapt is still the number one choice for the top recruiters in the world, including Adecco, Kelly Services, Alexander Mann, Manpower and Hays.

Steve Weston, Group Technology Director at Hays, comments, “As a global business, communication between our 5,000 consultants is a key issue. The latest Adapt system, bringing multi-lingual capabilities coupled with scalability through a web-based delivery model, provides a platform that enables business options that historically couldn’t be realised. So the decision to upgrade to the V11 software was an obvious and easy choice for us to make.”

Recently, Phee Farrar Jones, who after a full analysis of Bond’s competitors, re-signed with Adapt V11 this year, extending their 10 year relationship with Bond. Chris Chandler, Managing Director of Phee Farrar Jones, commented, “Bond Adapt V11 was superior in its ability to configure any area of the software or workflow immediately and according to our previous business needs… without Bond Adapt it seemed to us that there would be no competitive edge.”

Bond’s level of customer service is not only recognised by its existing client base, but is also compliant with the Quality Management System standard. Bond is the first recruitment software company in the UK to be accredited with the ISO 9001:2008 standard in customer care, recognition of their excellent service and support skills.

Always Developing

Investing £4.9 million of their annual turnover into research and development, Bond International Software continues to be at the very forefront of innovation. Its flagship product Bond Adapt has a number of features which will be added by December 2010, thus further enhancing its functionality. Examples of recent enhancements include the announcement that the latest version of Bond Adapt recruitment software (V11) is fully browser independent as standard. This technical advance sets Bond aside from its competitors and other systems available, many of which are only available via Internet Explorer. Additionally, 2010 has marked the year that Bond moved into the mobile recruitment space, embracing the principle of iDesking, or the “recruiter on the move” theory, via its iPad and iPhone applications. Such advances continue to keep Bond International Software ahead of market trends and demand.

37 years as the number one recruitment and human capital management software provider proves that age and wisdom really do come hand in hand. With so many years of experience in the bag, it is also entirely refreshing to see that Bond is constantly keeping ahead of the times, and competitors: launching new products, entering new markets and most importantly, succeeding in providing innovative technologies, 2010 has been a year of celebrations for Bond International Software.

With plenty more in the pipeline, the future is looking healthy for the market-leading provider of recruitment and human capital management software.

Showing Full Browser Independence is the Final Piece of the Jigsaw

internetPointerBond International Software, the global provider of hosted recruitment software and recruitment software as a service (SaaS), today announces that their latest version of the Bond Adapt Version 11 recruitment software as a service is fully browser independent as standard.
 
As a result, Bond customers using this version will be able to access their Bond Adapt Version 11 systems irrespective of which browser they are accessing the internet through and without time consuming and expensive customisation – a technical advance that sets Bond apart from many of its competitors, who are only able to provide access to their systems through Internet Explorer.
 
Daniel Richardson, Chief Technology Officer at Bond International Software, comments, “Initially, Internet Explorer held a significantly dominant market share in the browser market, leaving barely 10% of the market for any competitors. However, on account of perceived claims of faster service from alternative browsers, we have seen a dramatic variation in browser adoption, first in Asia-Pac and then across EMEA. Browser independence therefore becomes significantly more important than ever before as the methods of internet access have suddenly broadened.”
 
Bond’s products are often provided over the internet via a SaaS model, and those that are hosted on the customers’ sites also have an internet-based remote access capability, making the ability to accommodate different working practices vital.
 
Richardson continues, “With the increasing variety of browsers, our growth potential was threatened, especially overseas. As a result, we have spent a great deal of time and effort retrospectively ensuring that the latest releases of Bond Adapt Version 11 are entirely compatible with any browser. This has entailed an adaptation of underlying code, and also a proactive effort in ensuring that later development is ‘future-proof’.”
 
Bond’s browser independence sets its hosted recruitment software portfolio apart from that of its competitors, as while tailored work has been undertaken by some other web-based recruitment software providers to ensure compatibility with selected browsers, Bond is the only organisation that is able to claim full browser independence. Richardson adds, “Through dedicating development resource to ensuring robust browser independence, we have fully adapted our current web-based recruitment software Adapt Version 11 offering and our ongoing development programme. This is a level of effort and activity that many of our competitors simply do not have the resources to commit to, which is why we believe we are the only organisation to have managed to achieve full browser independence with our hosted recruitment software.”
 
Richardson concludes, “Independence has always been our ethos, be that in terms of, for example, the user interface language or the underlying database. Showing full browser independence is the final piece of the jigsaw.”
 
For more information or to book a demonstration of the latest, new and improved, version of the market leading Adapt software – please contact us today on 01903 707070 or email sales@bond.co.uk

pfj Chooses Bond

BondLogoNewThe pfj network is on target to achieve a turnover of over £10million and has been a Bond customer for over a decade but believes that the recruitment industry is now beginning to see the effects of the second wave of technological innovation and needs to work with a robust and flexible partner to take advantage of the opportunities that will arise.
Chris Chandler, Managing Director of the pfj network explains, “The recession was an obvious time to review our cost base, processes and infrastructure. It is also a great time to look to the future and make long term investments that can give you a competitive edge. Any major investment needs careful consideration so we retained Kamanchi, as a third party who specialise in recruitment database systems, to help us map out what we needed now and importantly what we wanted to build for the future. We are not IT experts and we wanted to make sure that not only were we equipping ourselves with the very best tools, but also that we were relying on suppliers that were stable enough to not pose a risk to our own business.”
Chandler expands, “After a period of consultancy and evaluation, there were a number of key differentiators that made the final decision for us. Most important was the approach taken to customisation. Most software packages claimed to be adaptable, but where Bond Adapt Version 11 was superior was in the ability to configure any area of the software or workflow immediately and according to our precise business needs. Bond’s competitors on the other hand were able to configure in some respects immediately, but for other aspects of what we required, we would have had to wait until the core software was developed and the next version was put on general release – it felt more restrictive from a timing perspective but more importantly the ideas and innovations that we will want to implement would then be available to everyone – without Bond Adapt it seemed to us that there would be no competitive edge.”
The pfj network is made up of specialist UK media, marketing and communications recruitment agencies PFJ Recruitment and RPCushing, the UK’s leading graduate recruiter, the Graduate Recruitment Company, and also ICUR, the Sydney-based specialist for media, advertising, creative and digital jobs. All four of these businesses, entailing over 70 users, will be going live with Bond Adapt Version 11 in the coming months.
Tim Richards, Managing Director of Bond International Software, concludes, “pfj have been a customer of ours for over a decade now and we are delighted to see yet another one of our customers extending an already healthy and fruitful relationship yet further. More often than not, this is a function of the close working practices we aim to develop with all of our customers, and our unswerving focus on product development – two factors that we believe set us apart.”

Bond International Software Secures its Position as the Global Leader

globeGlobal leader in staffing and recruitment software acquires one of its largest competitors in the US
21st October 2010, LONDON, UK: Bond International Software http://www.bondinternationalsoftware.com/, the global leader in staffing and recruitment software, has acquired VCG http://www.vcgsoftware.com/, one of the US’s leading staffing and recruiting software developers, at a cost of $9 million.
The merger significantly strengthens Bond’s position as the largest global provider of staffing and recruitment software, allowing Bond to secure an important additional portion of the US market. Customers of both companies will be able to take advantage of the combined portfolio of products, expertise and available support.
Steve Russell, Chief Executive of Bond International Software, comments, “Clearly this acquisition is an exciting moment in our company’s history and will allow us to secure ourselves a highly enviable position in the staffing software market, from both a US perspective and internationally. The clear synergies between the two companies and their respective offerings provide us with the confidence that no changes to brands, products, company structure or delivery of the products are required – clearly a huge advantage in any acquisition.”
Steve Taylor, President and CEO of VCG, said, “Together, Bond and VCG are uniquely positioned to provide staffing organisations with the most comprehensive set of solutions available in the marketplace. The resulting product portfolios will ensure that staffing companies will be able to choose from several available options to best meet their needs.”
Bond International Software has a strong, successful history in acquisitions, both in the US and the UK, and has diversified from a provider of staffing software into a major player within the wider human capital management arena.

Bond to Showcase Bond Adapt at the REC National Convention 2010

Bond Adapt Logo 200x200Bond International Software www.bondinternationalsoftware.co.uk, the stock market-listed recruitment and HCM specialist, will be attending and sponsoring this year’s REC National Convention, held on 26th October 2010 at The Brewery, Chiswell Street, London.

Representatives of Bond International Software will be demonstrating the latest version of its flagship product, Bond Adapt, the specialist portfolio of recruitment software applications.

Used by over 100,000 staffing professionals in 42 countries across the globe, Bond Adapt is the benchmark recruitment software. Fully configurable to clients’ specific requirements, and with over 37 years of development and investment, Adapt is recognised as the world’s leading platform and database independent, web based, multilingual staffing solution.

The REC National Convention is a national, whole-industry event providing a range of opportunities to discuss the key challenges and opportunities facing the industry from a fresh perspective. This year, the Convention is focusing directly on ‘The Future of Recruitment’ and features a programme of world class keynote speakers, interactive seminars from business and industry experts and an exhibition. The event will offer everyone in the recruitment and employment industry an opportunity to be inspired by and take part in a thought leadership event that will provide innovative solutions and creative new approaches to issues that matter in recruitment.

Tim Richards, Managing Director, Bond International Software (UK), comments; 

“The REC National Convention is very much a key event for all those in the recruitment industry. The event showcases and encourages forward thinking from within the recruitment industry itself, matching perfectly with our own corporate ethos of constant innovation. Bond Adapt is our flagship product and we are very proud of the place that it holds both in our portfolio and when compared to competitive products.”

Bond Adapt Enables P&K Recruitment to Streamline Processes

foldersP+K Recruitment, an employment agency specialising in the placing of supply teachers across the education sector, will reduce the time taken to complete timesheets and process invoices & payroll from three working days to a maximum of half a day. Taking advantage of its inherent flexibility, Bond Adapt – the recruitment software from Bond International Software, the recruitment & HCM specialist – has been configured to meet the specific business needs of the agency.

P+K Recruitment is an employment agency placing supply teachers in positions across nursery, primary and secondary schools. With offices in Wakefield, Sheffield and Birmingham, the business places over 300 teachers per week.

To find out how Bond Adapt can streamline your daily processes, save you time and money while helping your business grow, call us today on 01903 707070 or email us at sales@bond.co.uk

Bond Adapt – the partner you can trust.