Any in-house recruiter or business owner will know that recruiting software testers can be frustrating. Testing roles can generate some of the highest volume of applications of any IT role. Often the challenge is not that the talent isn’t available on the market, it’s how do you pinpoint the best talent quickly, with the combination skills you need from the masses of applicants.
Using technology such as an applicant tracking system can help to filter the volume of candidates, but a better approach that saves a lot more time and resource is to more accurately source testers that match your job requirements at the beginning of the process.
Enter Elevate Direct, the recruitment tool that automates the sourcing of contractors. Although the platform can be used for any contractor role, Testing Consultancies have found it particularly useful.
NMQA is a leading software testing consultancy that provides a broad range of testing services across all industries. With the goal of reducing agency fees and hiring the right contractors quicker, NMQA added Elevate Direct to its recruitment mix. Hiring via the platform is easy. NMQA log in and post their job, the Elevate Direct platform runs an algorithm that matches the testing vacancy against a database of thousands of contractors. The result is an instant shortlist of suitable contractors including required day rates and availability.
“As a fast growing UK-based testing house NMQA are only interested in hiring the very best. Elevate Direct's platform allows us to do that - and at a much lower rate."
Mark Gibbins, Operations Director at NMQA
In addition to the automated sourcing of contractors, Elevate Direct also takes care of payroll, time-sheeting and consolidated invoices. Because technology is used to streamline the full end to end process of hiring contractors, employers benefit from paying much lower margins on contractor day rates. NMQA for example saved approximately £700 a month, or £10,000 a year on each contractor.
SQA Consulting, an innovating testing and quality assurance services company is another consultancy to benefit from Elevate Direct’s end to end contingent hiring solution. For consultancies like SQA speed of hire is especially important due to the project based nature of their work.
“I was keen to look at alternatives so when numerous vacancies spanning Ireland and the UK materialised I was keen to test drive Elevate Direct. The speed of recruiting via the Elevate Direct platform is a big plus for us, it really is lightning fast. Plus it’s a seamless process from creating the job to paying the actual delivery resources”. Says Patrick Chatee, CEO of SQA Consulting.
“Having a shortlist of matching candidates automatically generated for your jobs, is a critical time saver; as is being able to manage resources though the recruitment process in a single system”.
About Elevate Direct
Elevate Direct is an end to end recruitment solution for hiring contractors directly. We are not a recruitment agency, nor an ATS system. As an additional recruitment tool we enable companies to save hundreds of thousands of pounds recruiting contractors.
Visit our website to find out how we can support your contractor hiring process: http://www.elevatedirect.com/employers
