This Summer is all about sun, sea and spex… We recently wrote about keeping your candidates warm over the Summer, but you also don’t want to get the cold shoulder from your clients! We know there’s no such thing as “relaxation” for recruiters, but some lucky folk out there are actually winding down during this season. You can usually sense this through the lack of vacancies 🫣

There are tonnes of reasons to keep in touch with your clients on a regular basis. Just a few being:

• Maintaining momentum
• Build loyalty and trust
• To stay on their minds

If you’re reaching out, the chances are you’re prospecting or speccing. If it’s the latter, we have some great tips on how to speed up your process and dare we even say it - have more time to chill 🤯

Spec smarter with AssistCV

The biggest time killer when speccing is formatting CVs so, if you're still manually formatting them, you're literally burning money. AssistCV is our latest tool which takes the pain out of formatting and creates perfect CVs in seconds (and they look the part too). Your recruiters simply just have to upload the original CV, select a template that's created by us or yourselves, and AssistCV takes care of the rest leaving you with a fully-branded CV that shows off your candidate exactly how they deserve. You can even anonymise the CV in less than one second.

Assist CV also lives inside Bullhorn allowing you to spec from inside your CRM. So, if you're a Bullhorn user, it takes all of the information stored against your candidate and pulls everything into one place and you don't need to leave the system to spec. Just send via email or copy the link. AssistCV for Bullhorn will even use AI to write your candidate summary and the email you send to your client. We’ll email to let you know in real-time when it was viewed so you can follow up accordingly! Plus, we have some new integrations launching very soon in JobAdders, Loxo and Bullhorn for Salesforce!

Use Talent Dashboards for video shortlisting

If you’re not on Bullhorn and still want to manage your speccing from inside one platform, don’t worry. Our video interview suite, Vision, is equipped with a great video shortlisting tool, Talent Dashboards. Instead of sending over CVs, you can send a link to a branded portal that will have your shortlisted candidate video interviews, CVs, salary info, notice, plus any other documents, all in one place! Not only is this a great opportunity for your candidate to showcase their personality, but it’s also easier to track client activity and helps you keep things moving!

Go the extra mile with Capture video messaging

If you're struggling to stand out when sending CVs and want to make your specs ✨ sexy ✨, send a video message with a link to your shortlists our attach the CV. We didn’t really need to include this as we shout about the benefits of video messaging so often, but we treat our 3 products like kids and we don’t want Capture to feel left out 🤷‍♀️