The Diamond Recruitment Group, based in Northern Ireland, recently signed up with Skillsarena Ltd and will be rolling out the skillsarena on-line competency testing programme throughout their network of branches.
James Coe, skillsarena''s Sales Director, comments:
We are growing from strength to strength and are delighted to be working with Diamond Recruitment. As one of the largest recruiters in Northern Ireland, we are working towards providing them with one of the most comprehensive testing systems available on the market. The working partnership that we have is excellent. It is encouraging to see that the benefits of online delivery of skills testing is providing such value to them.
The Diamond Recruitment Group is one of the largest and most prestigious recruitment agencyís in Northern Ireland, and was formed in 1989 by Gary Irvine, Managing Partner and REC NI Chairman, to provide a truly professional staffing service to both candidates and clients alike. Since then the company has continued to develop, diversify and expand its range of Permanent, Temporary and Contract recruitment services to fulfil the needs of an ever-changing working culture.
Irvine explains the reasons behind the partnership with skillsarena as being a direct result of increasing competition which in turn makes it difficult for many of us to differentiate our service from one another. Clients today demand value for their money meaning added value services such as testing and training of temps is expected as a matter of course.
Diamond Recruitment place hundreds of secretarial and clerical staff to both the private and public sectors in Northern Ireland each day. Many of these contracts insist that all applicants are skill tested to ensure they reach minimum criteria for the job. This had posed a problem for Diamond in the past due to the increasing cost of skills testing software and the lack of providers available, but has since been alleviated through the partnership with skillsarena.
Irvine continues, Skillsarena''s product has revolutionised Diamond''s approach to the testing of their applicants as every consultant within our seven branch network now has easy access to a range of skills tests via the Internet. Instead of paying a licence fee per pc user we now pay one unlimited access fee for the whole company which frankly saves us a small fortune.
The skillsarena site provides recruitment agencies, job seekers, businesses and educational bodies the opportunity to test software and keyboard skills speedily and efficiently.
Coe explains, The programmers we have developing the software are first class. They are industry innovators and have used the latest state-of-the-art technology to develop the testing programmes.
The skillsarena software has been designed to incorporate not only the high usage clients, such as The Diamond Recruitment Group, but also minimal assessment requirements of the small business or individual user. Candidates are able to practice for free via the online assessment and sit a fresh test set by the employer or recruitment agency. Further testing capabilities are currently under development.
Irvine comments, The range of tests available is already significant however we are aware that many other useful tests will soon become available as the year progresses. We will also have free access to these additional tests should they become available during our current subscription period.
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