In the current climate and candidate driven market, greater competition for talent means better remuneration across the board and generous counter-offer packages.
There is a shortage of skilled / certified Implementation Consultants and increasingly our clients are looking "outside of the box" and hiring consultants with similar software skills, to cross train to their particular ERP, CRM or Accounting Software packages. Whilst this takes initial investment in training and certification for the candidate on the client's part, your new employee is far more likely to give you long term loyalty and to stay with you for a fair amount of time, to get some strong experience under their belt.
We are also working closely with our clients to help them speed up their recruitment process, ensuring that they get offer acceptance and commitment from their preferred candidate, before they are snapped up by a competitor.
There are plenty of jobs out there with stable, cash rich companies who have full order books and tons of work for you. Don’t believe the media hype; the ERP, CRM and Accounting Softwaremarket is still strong and there is a demand for good people. At the moment, you can have your pick of the good jobs – and with decent money, as clients compete for the best people, so don’t sit still in a bad job, get out there and find yourself a good one.
Please use Word format for your CV, PDF documents are much more difficult to process. It doesn’t matter how many pages your CV is as long as the last job has great detail. 90% of people get their next job on experience gained in their last / current job, so you need to go into detail about what you are doing currently:
How many projects; size / scope of the projects; technology that you have used on the project; what was your involvement?
If you fill in the gaps on your CV you will get more interviews; if you believe that you will be asked these questions instead at interview, you are mistaken. Fill out the gaps, so that the client can imagine putting you on a project from day one.
And please - no weird type faces. It is proven that people can read Times New Roman faster than anything else because we learn to read books that are written in it. So your CV is more easily read in Times New Roman. More easily read = more interviews.
Well, it really is a candidate led market right now.
In the ERP, CRM and Accounting Software arena our clients are trying to recruit in droves and their client companies are continuing to buy new software – so there are jobs galore. But the barrage of “End of the World News” constantly thrust at us by the media is stopping people looking for new jobs. Candidates are frightened of changing jobs, and then suddenly being made redundant. Those candidates that are actively in the market looking for a new role have the pick of the jobs and access to some very interesting opportunities – and salaries are very competitive.
So during the interview process with a candidate you need to cover more than just the history of your company and your job role. You need to be talking about your company’s financial stability, how many years you have been in profit and how much money you have in the bank, and then talk about how much work is in your order book and your sales pipeline.
Try not to spend too long making decisions about second interviews or job offers as good candidates are often on multiple interviews and will take another offer before you have made up your mind.
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