The benefits of researching job applicants and their CV’s

Our team have produced a handy infomatic panel this week which very nicely illustrates the benefits of using Reporting Accounts on a daily basis to monitor your suppliers, competitors and just about anyone you plan to start working or dealing with.  It can even be a way of researching the background of prospective employees, by reviewing how the businesses they worked in performed.

I spoke with a customer last week who could not thank me enough, he had been considering recruiting a new sales director and had heard from the candidate how he had grown the sales of the businesses he had been involved with over the last 15 or so years.

On drawing down the accounting information from Reporting Accounts he was surprised to see that in the last three companies the candidate had worked in sales had fallen year on year every year for the last dozen or so years.  That prompted him to actually speak to people with the companies the guy had worked with, and no surprise a very different picture of sales underperformance was then revealed.

The customer moved on to find a new candidate and all has worked out well for him.

Recruitment agencies are now also making use of our services to  positively vet candidates, in the UK Companies house records the dates Directors were appointed and this is a then a great way to compare that information to the CV's put forward by candidates, even Director level applicants have a habit of smoothing over dates to flatter their CV's or Resume's.

Traffic has been growing steadily throughout 2019 and we are excited to be starting work on Phase II of our sites development, which will in time include some great features to help recruiters better match up Director service dates and will also include some great new graphs and other very useful information.   We see great benefits in the recruitment space for our service and our development team is busy working on this and many other great new features.  Check back soon to see how Reporting Accounts is better than ever.

Our site is increasingly used for research and marketing purposes, we are writing an advanced search feature with just this usage in mind, it is underdevelopment at the moment and is planned to go live in October 2020.  So please check back then.

Updating this post now in Sept 2020, we have come a long way since this time last year, our Android App is live and we have a new look Blog section.  Also a lot more content is being uploaded including the useful graphs feature showing the trends over the last 5 years.   We also added Significant control and during October the new Mortgages & Charges section will go live also.  Our IOS app had some issues and is back on the drawing board at the moment, but I am hopeful of getting that over the line also this year, potentially around Christmas time 2020, it would be a nice Xmas present for the team to get that live for sure.

A new MS Edge browser plugin is in the early stages of development, so keep an eye out for that also.

A big infrastructure piece of work is planned for November and December, moving our code over from full text searches to using Elastic Search and Lucene/Solr, that will address some of the sluggishness that has become apparent as the number of site users has increased.   We have been waiting until our developers completed all the new features before moving onto that.

By the way if you are interested in joining the team at Reporting Accounts then we are always on the lookout for great new talent, we have an office in Telford Shropshire, but our team all work from home and have done so since 2017, we have staff in the USA, Northern Macedonia, India and of course the UK.  If you are interested then reach out to use using the contact us form.

Increasingly we are talking with recruitment firms who are interested in gaining bulk access to our database which of course is a great way to research data.

Bio - Adrian is the CEO of Reporting Accounts and also a regular contributor on Semrush the popular Seo analytics tool.