WHY SKILLPOINT ?

A: Microsoft Outlook and Outlook Express are programs designed and developed to effectively manage your email communication. They are not designed to act as recruitment management software. Recruitment and Placement processes are a lot more involved than just managing email. Some of the specific reasons are:

1. Attachment Opening: To view a resume from Outlook or Outlook Express, you need to open each resume attachment to look at it.
   
2. No Centralized data: Each team member ends up having their private data. So you may fail to close a position even if you may have good candidates in some other team member’s email account, as there is no structured way to look at email data of every team member in the absence of a centralized resume management system.
   No good search engine built into these products that allows you to search data in email attachments. You may not be able to remember all good candidates which is not the case with a full-features applicant tracking system.
   Email data in Outlook/Outlook Express is personal, so teamwork requires a lot of personal communication with team members.
   
3. No structured way to reuse previous effort: You may have identified good candidates for a position but there is no clean way to remember them for any future position which an applicant tracking system specializes in.
   No single data backup strategy.
   No possibility of analyzing your operations for performance and improvements.
   No business intelligence can be obtained directly. Any such information requires doing a lot of data entry for generating any kind of intelligence.

A: Naukri and Monster provide you access to a ready made, public resume database. However, you cannot perform your business totally based on such an external database because:

1. Full management of your work is not possible from the jobsites.
2. With widespread use of email, more and more candidates will send you their resumes in email. So an efficient tool is required to manage this data.
3. With widespread use of email, more and more candidates will send you their resumes in email. So an efficient resume management solution is required to manage this data.
4. With such increasing inflow of data, you need a tool to efficiently manage and search such data. If you cannot locate good candidates when a requirement comes, you stand to loose good revenue and your credibility with your clients.
5. Each such public database leads to fragmentation of your data and business intelligence. You need a resume database management tool to effectively consolidate it for you and SkillPoint fits these requirements very well.
6. No Uniqueness: this database is equally available to all consultants and corporations. So the focus with such a database shifts onto speed of sending a resume rather than the quality of the candidate.
7. Placement Version: Corporate HR departments have equal access to such a database, so the chances of your candidate not being known to them already are lower. It may be a total waste of your time if you send a resume from a public database for a requirement and your client has already searched the same resumes from the same database.
8. Most Good candidates do not tend to put their resumes into public resume databases.
9. Experienced/Senior candidates do not tend to put their resumes into public databases.
10. You might be better in attracting a certain category of candidates for which you may not find resumes in public job sites.
11. NOTE: All the advantages of SkillPoint over Outlook or Outlook Express apply to this comparison as well.

SkillPoint allows you to fully track your interaction with each candidate, so even if a candidate does not work out for a specific requirement, knowledge of complete interaction with him will help you in suitably and quickly placing him for some future requirement.

Q: I am currently using a desktop search engine tool like X1, Copernic or Google Desktop. Why do I need SkillPoint?

A: Desktop Search engine tools allow you to quickly do broad text searches. For instance, you can search for words "Project" AND "Management" in all your documents.
However, SkillPoint is a complete Recruitment Management Software which provides a centralized, team-shared, fully secure, recruitment database with all the required tools for ensuring the efficiency and stability of your Recruitment processes and business.
Our search engine is more functional than a desktop search engine and it is very finely optimized for searches related to recruitment and placement activities.