A recruitment system built on Salesforce’s Force.com platform is aiming to broaden cloud-based software offerings to recruitment agencies in the UK.

Talent Rover was launched in the US in 2012 and recently appointed former recruiter Steve Harris as European enterprise account executive. The company’s co-founder Brandon Metcalf told Recruiter that as cloud computing has grown in popularity, many companies have “joined the conversation” by claiming their solution is cloud-based, when in fact it is a hosted solution. “Without a multi-server environment and multiple data centres that are graphically dispersed, a software solution cannot offer the back-up, redundancy and data recovery that true cloud solutions offer,” he said. 

Metcalf founded the company with Kent Gray, and the pair have a combined 30 years’ experience in the recruitment industry. Metcalf said that having used more than a dozen recruitment systems in 11 years, he felt it was time to build a new solution. “It was clear no one had leveraged the dramatic innovation in business software on behalf of the staffing and recruiting industry. The goal was simple: address the pain points long suffered by staffing and recruiting professionals and build an efficient, more flexible, highly adaptable and completely integrated solution.”

Talent Rover integrates applicant tracking, customer relationship management (CRM), HR and benefits management, online timesheets and expenses, gross profits and accounting software and analytics and forecasting capabilities. “Talent Rover is dedicated to evolving the industry beyond an ATS [applicant tracking system] to provide a software solution that meets the needs of the entire business including sales, recruiting and back office teams,” said Metcalf. The system also provides extensive integration with mobile and social media channels, enabling recruiters to look at sites such as LinkedIn, Facebook, Twitter, YouTube and Klout in one place. As with all applications built on the Force.com platform, it is integrated with the collaborative tool Salesforce Chatter. 

Harris is in discussion with several UK recruitment agencies, and Metcalf says that the need for a “revolutionary” recruitment product is as great in the UK as it is in the US.  “The UK is a hub for international recruitment,” he said. “Firms need a technology that supports multiple languages, multiple currencies and can adapt to any region, specialisation and workflow.”