Recruitment, AI and income generation

February 5th, 2026 | Company News Industry News

The recruitment sector contributed about £40 billion to the UK economy in 2024-25, according to the Recruitment & Employment Confederation (REC). Over two thirds of this sum was contributed by the temp/contract part of the industry.

Automation without losing the personal touch

May 21st, 2025 | Company News

Striking the right balance between technology and human connection has never been more crucial for recruiters. Modern recruitment software solutions are revolutionising the industry, but the most successful agencies understand that automation should enhance rather than replace the personal touch.

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Building Long-Term Relationships with HR Departments: The Role of Recruitment Software

April 16th, 2025 | Company News

In today’s competitive recruitment agency landscape, fostering strong relationships with HR departments can be essential for recruitment success. Leveraging the right recruitment software can transform these partnerships from transactional to truly collaborative. Here’s how technology can strengthen these crucial connections.

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How to Evaluate New Recruitment Technology

April 10th, 2025 | Company News

In today’s competitive talent market, having the right recruitment software can make all the difference between securing top candidates and watching them slip away to competitors. For recruitment agencies looking to upgrade their technology, careful evaluation is essential to ensure they select the best solution for their needs, for three reasons:

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Revolutionary Recruitment Software Transforms Agency Operations

February 4th, 2025 | Company News

Our latest recruitment software innovation has arrived, offering a comprehensive solution that streamlines talent acquisition and candidate management. Recruit So Simple’s web-based system introduces a powerful new candidate grid system, revolutionising how recruitment professionals interact with their database.

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Recruit So Simple Features spotlight

September 9th, 2024 | Company News Industry News

CV parsing is a central element of the Recruit So Simple software suite, and it’s one that can be underutilised, so today we’re putting it centre stage.

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Websites, candidate contacts and AI – a roundup of key issues in recruitment

April 5th, 2024 | Company News

Protecting candidates from recruitment website fraud

The world of recruitment is as prone to risk and fraud as any other, but recruitment website design is the latest area in which recruitment agencies are finding themselves on the back foot. Fraudsters are using recruitment platforms, and even designing their own websites, to create online vacancies to obtain personal information from candidates. While the best recruitment websites are hard to fake, there’s no doubt that the scammers are skilled in creating fake sites. Action Fraud is reporting a rise in recruitment scams, with people being exploited either through false adverts on reputable job websites or through follow up messages sent on Whatsapp to persuade people to hand over personal details such as passport information and bank details. While the Recruitment and Employment Confederation has reiterated that its members would never ask candidates for payment to obtain work, it’s up to recruiters to ensure that their website for recruitment is secure and contains clear information about what they will, and won’t ask candidates in their search for employment.

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Why ATS matters to effective recruiting

April 5th, 2023 | Company News

It’s a given that software has permanently altered the nature of recruitment, and that every recruitment agency now makes more or less use of various forms of recruitment software. However, the extent to which recruiters develop their talent management strategy via recruiting software may decide how well they achieve their goals. In particular Applicant Tracking Systems (ATS), can be utilised to improve recruitment efficiency and accuracy.

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New Features and Improvements

June 10th, 2020 | Company News

Today we released a system update that contains some new features and improvements to Recruit So Simple. Here are the highlights:

• Added a draft emails feature so that emails can be saved and then completed later.
• The candidate reference numbers can now be fully customised.
• Added an easy way to duplicate a job record.
• Made it much quicker to reassign records to someone else.
• Increased the number of IP addresses allowed for access control.
• Removed the Google+ social media profile field from records following the closure of this service last year.
• Made various security and performance improvements to keep things running smoothly and securely.

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Recent Improvements To Our Recruitment Software

March 20th, 2020 | Company News

We added some new features and made some improvements to Recruit So Simple over the course of 2019, here are the highlights:

• Made it easier to customise the list of fields which must be filled out when a record is added to the database.
• Added a new type of goal in the system which can be used to track the performance of a group of consultants.
• Added a new toolbar to make navigating between recently viewed records much quicker and easier.
• Overhauled our CV parsing system resulting in better performance, higher accuracy, increased language support, and many, many more improvements under the hood.
• Made various security and performance improvements to keep things running smoothly and securely.

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