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Slides from presentation, Standing Out From The Crowd'. The journey of Wendy McDougall, Managing Director of Scottish based IT recruitment company 9-20 recruitment who develops own recruitment software, 'Firefish'.
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STANDING OUT FROM THE CROWD
Wendy McDougall
Questions
Please direct all questions on Twitter @wendymcdougall with the hashtag #ThinkDigital
To be answered at the end of the session
Launched 9-20 recruitment
Began career in IT recruitment
Finalist in ‘Entrepreneur of the Year’ at Business
Awards for Scotland
9-20 doubles staff numbers
Joined ScotlandIS board
MD of 9-20 recruitment & Firefish
Software CEO
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@WendyMcdougall
Launching 9-20 recruitment in a crowded marketplace
So how would 9-20 stand out from the crowd?
We LISTENED to our customers...
And guess what?
You don’t like RECRUITMENT
COMPANIES
“I want more for my money.”
“Recruitment costs are too high.”
“Lots of irrelevant CV’s.”
“I can’t see the work that’s being done on
my role.”
Why don’t you like us?
There are still challenges…
Skill shortages
Too long to hire
Can’t keep staff
How are we going to do that?
Web 2.0
Web 3.0?
Web 4.0?!
INNOVATING recruitment through digital technology
Big investment in development team
And so it begins…
Constant race against time
Deep pockets required
Trust your staff
Risk / rewardPartnership approach
Provided visibilityClient portal login
Increased brandingCreation of 9-20 network
Reduced costs
40% saving for volume recruitment
Splitting the payments Easing cashflow for clients
3 month guaranteeSharing the risk
Our awards
Launched Firefish Software
Beginning of a new era
Productising softwareBringing it all together
So what’s this Firefish Software?
Question Time
Any further questions on using technology
in the recruitment process?
Contact me on:
Twitter:
@wendymcdougall
LinkedIn:
uk.linkedin.com/in/wendymcdougall
Presentation available at:
Slideshare.net