The Recruitment & Employment Confederation (REC) is giving away free software to all delegates on its two or three-day course ìOpening a Private Recruitment Consultancy or Businessî. The software is a copy of the specialist recruitment database application ëRDB Startí ñ supplied by First Choice Software.
Delegates on the course spend time with Romney Rawes, now a freelance consultant and trainer, who passes on the benefit of his 33 years experience in the recruitment industry, where he has been MD and Chairman of some well known companies. He says: ìThe use of software packages is amongst the subjects discussed and it is nice to be able to give delegates something they can take away and use immediately. As Emma Thorpe, Training Executive at the REC, comments: ìItís a free database package, so itís ideally placed for those people who are starting up.î
RDB Start is a single-user database, but with many start up agencies only comprising one or two people, Emma Thorpe believes it is a good way to get started and evaluate the software at the same time. She explains: ìIt gives them the opportunity to test the package, and then to upgrade to the full RDB Pro version when they are ready.î RDB Start contains virtually all the functionality of the latest version of RDB Pro, including full Web compatibility.
The REC has been providing RDB Start to the delegates of its two and three day courses, which it runs every other month, since the autumn of 2002. Each course takes no more than ten delegates, and the three-day version adds an ëentrepreneurialí module, which includes time spent with a specialist recruitment lawyer and membership of the REC.
REC provides free First Choice Software package to new recruitment agencies
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