Not so long ago, software used to be bought in boxes and installed on computers where licensing issues, lost disks, updating and software crashes were all the order of the day.
With the evolution of cloud computing, businesses today are able to store and access their data securely in purpose built more reliable server farms, commonly known as the Cloud. ) The advantages are many. Data is available 24-7 and can easily be accessed from anywhere outside the office, including remote locations such as airports, hotels and home-based facilities. Where data is easily accessible from anywhere in real-time, business moves faster and more efficiently
The same advantages apply to interview management software, which is why Interview Coordinator (www.interviewcoordinator.com) the award winning recruitment management and video interview software (published by Swindon-based software house, Flaxlands Consulting Ltd) has been designed to make use of cloud-based technology.
Stuart Hobbs, managing director recently stated “we firmly believe in the cloud computing concept – the only drawback put forward is that you have a problem if your internet access goes down, but this is uncommon these days and the many positives far outweigh this single negative.”
With the daily use of portable technologies such as smart phones, ipads and notebooks, the information you need can be available anytime, anyplace, anywhere. This means that multi site collaboration is much easier to manage when it comes to situations like recruiting.
Taking things further, in some instances the people involved in hiring are not always in the same country and so communication can become fragmented and delayed by availability and sometimes time zone differences. Keeping data centrally is imperative and the quality of the content can be maintained by all those involved managing and keeping the data up to date, through adding comments and interview feedback.
The cloud computing approach has already been beneficial for a client based in the Middle East, where multiple recruitment decision makers located in different countries have been able to collaborate to recruit 100 new staff, covering executives, managers and engineers using the system.