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Making the most of digital

Add value to your recruitment business through digitalisation.

Recruitment is a key sector for RSM and each year, we work with more than 250 recruitment clients of all sizes and stages of development, and a recurring priority is their digital strategy. 

The time when digital and IT investment was a discretionary spend is long gone. It’s now seen as a must, to align with market expectations from employees, clients or candidates, and also to drive, understand and streamline a business. 

This is true at all stages of a recruitment business’ life cycle, and increasingly essential in terms of planning for an exit.

However, with the rapid pace of development and huge range of options out there, we recognise this can be a challenge. 

In this video series, we give insight into how digital transformation can enhance your recruitment business and should be central to achieving your strategic objectives. 

We examine the following areas: 

  • the importance of a digital strategy;
  • driving value from your data;
  • managing business risk;
  • cyber security;
  • driving efficiencies in using technology in your business;
  • leveraging ERP in digital transformation programmes; and
  • ESG and the recruitment sector.

The importance of a digital strategy

Technology is moving at an ever-increasing pace and understanding how the latest digital technologies and underlying data can benefit the recruitment sector can be overwhelming. We look at how a digital strategy can help you make sense of it and the key points that it should include. 

The importance of a digital strategy

How can RSM help?

Wherever you are on your digital journey, we help you harness digital technology and your data to maximise enhance efficiency and reduce costs.

If you would like to discuss digital strategy for your recruitment business, please contact Neil Thomas or Alex Good.

  • Driving value from your data
  • Managing strategic risk
  • Managing cyber risk
  • Driving efficiency
  • Leveraging ERP
  • ESG

Driving value from your data

Getting the right data in place is a key driver of value for any recruitment business, including how your digital strategy, and specifically your data strategy, can create value during an exit event. 

How can RSM help?

We help you identify ways to gain value from your data and maximise efficiencies across your data assets. We can support you in developing a strong data and analytics strategy. 

If you would like to discuss data and analytics strategy for your recruitment business, please contact Neil Thomas or Sarah Belsham.

If you would like to discuss an exit event for your recruitment business, please contact Jonathan Wade or Clodagh Tunney.

Managing strategic risk

Like every industry, the recruitment sector is continuously managing change, so it is important to consider your business' strategic risks. We highlight the top risks impacting the recruitment sector and planning software you can use to help manage these risks.

How can RSM help?

We work with you to identify and mitigate the risks impacting your business.

If you would like to discuss our Risk Management Software for your recruitment business, please contact Neil Thomas or Matt Humphrey.

Managing cyber risk

We look at the increasing cyber-threat for recruitment businesses related to their people and digital communications, and how to mitigate your cyber risk.

How can RSM help?

We work with you to identify the cyber threats impacting your business and to develop and implement strategies and processes to mitigate your risk exposure.

If you would like to discuss cyber-security for your recruitment business, please contact Neil Thomas or Steven Snaith.

Driving efficiency

We look at typical issues we see with our clients in the recruitment sector around digital transformation and how implementing the right software can enhance efficiency between your IT systems.

How can RSM help?

We can help you to implement a cloud-based software solution to help streamline your business processes. RSM InTime, is our leading payroll and billing software which streamlines and automates timesheet, expense, billing and payroll processes.

If you would like to discuss RSM InTime, please contact Charles Harrington

Leveraging ERP

We look at the main transformation challenges faced by recruitment businesses, and how ERP systems, such as NetSuite, can help you to address these challenges, while integrating with other systems.

How can RSM help?

We work with you to identify the right ERP solution for your business, and as a certified partner of NetSuite, we help companies nationally and globally, with full end-to-end implementation.

If you would like to discuss ERP for your recruitment business, please contact Neil Thomas.

ESG

We highlight key environmental, social and governance (ESG) issues we’re seeing in the sector, the importance of ESG from different stakeholder perspectives and how you can get started with ESG.

How can RSM help?

Wherever you are on your ESG journey, we can work with you to develop an ESG strategy and controls for your business.

If you would like to discuss ESG strategy for your recruitment business, please contact Neil Thomas or Steven Radcliffe

Neil  Thomas
Partner, Head of Recruitment Sector
Neil  Thomas
Partner, Head of Recruitment Sector