Text V Email - Seeking the recruitment consultant's opinion

Formation, a leading mobile applications developer is seeking the opinions of the recruitment industry to establish why text messaging is fast becoming recruitment consultants' number one communication tool. Formation has produced a survey, which is now online at txt4ever.com



Marketing Manager Gunvor Overbye says, With over 700 recruitment websites in the UK the Internet job hunting is becoming increasingly over-crowded and complicated. Agencies expressed concern about emails declining effectiveness and have responded to the mobile development very fast.

Recruitment consultancies use text messaging to contact candidates and clients, to set up interview appointments, to send weekly updates and to build company awareness.

Many of the candidates we place call straight back after they receive a text message so it really works. It is the way forward as long as the industry maintain its expertise of contacting the right candidates for the right job positions Svetlana Meciarova, Director of Puzzle Recruitment.

Formation would like a cross section of recruitment consultants to answer the survey and will conduct follow-up interviews with anyone who has got more to say. The results will be published at the end of the summer on the txt4ever.com website.