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7^th August 2012: Ball and Hoolahan, a specialist marketing services recruitment company, has made significant annual savings since signing an ongoing contract with Bond International Software (www.bondinternationalsoftware.com), the global provider of recruitment & human capital management software & services, to deploy its specialist portfolio of recruitment software applications – Bond Adapt.

 

Furthermore, Ball and Hoolahan has streamlined its recruitment processes and increased visibility across the business, avoiding duplication of data entry and also reducing the amount of manual administration being carried out by its team

 

Ball and Hoolahan was founded in 1988, and today its 15 consultants source and place marketing professionals in roles that vary from graduate to director level at blue-chip companies. The company places around 35 candidates per month and had 18,000 active candidates stored in its recruitment database. Prior to the implementation of Bond Adapt, Ball and Hoolahan was using a system that had been designed specifically for executive search companies, which did not provide the flexibility required for its contingency recruitment style of business.

 

Ball and Hoolahan therefore required a bespoke system that could be configured to meet its constantly changing needs as a business – in particular, improving visibility and efficiency across all processes. Ball and Hoolahan conducted a thorough review of the market, spending a year researching and trialling numerous systems. From its findings, the business concluded that Bond Adapt was the most flexible of software packages, allowing configuration ‘to the nth degree’, as well as being the most cost effective and simple to use software.

 

In addition to completing many administrative tasks themselves – such as using Bond Adapt to process invoices, thus eliminating the need for additional administrative staff – Ball and Hoolahan has now centralised its entire business infrastructure with Bond Adapt, eliminating the previous risk of errors associated with the duplication and re-entering of candidate, financial, HR and administrative data.

 

Hilary Hoolahan, Director, Ball and Hoolahan, comments, “The recruitment market is constantly changing, often moving in line with the economic climate, which as we all know has been more than a little rocky in recent years. For this reason, we required a robust and flexible recruitment system that would always be able to support our business no matter what changes the industry forced us to undertake. In Bond Adapt, we have an entirely configurable software package, and simply because of its innate flexibility and functionality, we have been able to reduce our administrative overheads considerably

 

Hoolahan concludes, “Right from the outset of our relationship with Bond, I have been thoroughly impressed with the level of customer service we receive from them. For instance, despite being a relatively small company, Bond’s Managing Director, Tim Richards, visited us at the time of the contract signing, which is illustrative of their customer-centric focus. During our relationship with Bond, I have seen other products on the market, but none that are as suitable for our business as Bond Adapt. It is for this reason that we plan to expand our services with Bond Adapt further, as we are soon to integrate it in a more sophisticated way with both jobs boards and our own website.”

 

ENDS

 

About Bond International Software and Bond Adapt www.bondadapt.com

 

London stock market-listed Bond International Software plc is a global provider of recruitment and human capital management (HCM) software and services.

 

Bond is the largest, and most established, global specialist in staffing software for recruitment agencies and executive search firms worldwide and is a rapidly growing provider of web-based e-recruitment and talent acquisition software to the corporate market. Bond also provides established HR and payroll software and outsourcing services directly to both the public and private sectors.

 

Established in 1973 and quoted on the AIM market of the London Stock Exchange since 1997, the company has consistently achieved financial growth and maximised investment in the development of technology and service provided to its international client base.

 

Bond has over 37 years’ experience in the development and creation of products and services that have become industry standards. Headquartered in the United Kingdom, the Group also has offices in the United States, Australia, Canada, South Africa, Japan and Hong Kong - with a global team of nearly 500 employees, 3700 customers and over 100,000 users.

 

Bond Adapt is a specialist portfolio of recruitment software applications which has earned Bond the reputation for enhancing business growth and profitability throughout the global staffing industry. Although configuration of Adapt recruitment software is easy, Bond offers five pre-configured systems especially for Recruitment, Vendor Managed Serviced (VMS), On-site, ASP and Healthcare.

 

Bond Adapt customers include some of the largest recruitment agencies in the world and a large number of private sector organisations, including: Hays, Michael Page, Manpower and Kelly.

 

For further information, please contact:

Bond International Software

 

Tim Richards

Managing Director

Courtlands, Parklands Avenue, Worthing.

Tel 01903 707070

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