Cloud Recruitment Jumps by 233% in 2010

• Tuesday, 16 February 2010

New figures released today show that the demand for Cloud Computing specialists jumped by 233% in the first month of 2010.

Resource On Demand, a Cloud recruitment firm, has logged a record number of enquiries for salesforce.com and SaaS (Software as a Service) Specialists, jumping from 3 to 10 enquires per week. This is consistent with anecdotal evidence that shows increasing numbers of organisations placing their reliance in the Cloud, fuelling demand for Cloud specialists.

Lee Durrant, MD of Resource On Demand, believes that demand for Cloud Computing countered the downturn and gave way to a boom in cloud recruiting:

“Cloud computing is now more than a buzz word, organisations are seeing both economic and sound operational reasons to use Cloud technology. This appealed to organisations during the recession, due to value for money paired with an increased level of performance, and continues to appeal to them in the post-recession market place.”

Resource on Demand are aiding this rapid-growth market by offering a ‘pay as you go’ recruitment fee, which works hand in hand with SaaS models who also offer low monthly subscription fees.

Lee added: “With Resource On Demand, you pay a fixed, low monthly subscription fee, which starts when we find someone to fill the position and continues for the first 12 months in this position. If they leave, for whatever reason during the first 12 months, you simply stop paying the monthly fee. This means your costs remain unchanged and you can grow your business in this difficult environment.”

Resource on Demand began to see green shoots of recovery in the final quarter of 2009 and is now expanding to cope with the demand that they are facing.

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Lee Durrant is available for further comment through Blue Cherry PR.
Please contact Mark Crosby to arrange a face-to-face interview or ‘phone call with Lee Durrant.
mark@blue-cherry.co.uk
07800 829 141.

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NOTES FOR EDITORS on Resource On Demand:

Resource On Demand offers recruitment services in the salesforce.com ecosystem on a subscription basis. This service is specifically designed for the Cloud Computing / SaaS industry.

By fully embracing the SaaS spirit of low cost and low risk, it allows Salesforce.com partners and consulting firms to scale up and down effectively. Built on a SaaS model, it offers the same benefits of scalability, flexibility and low risk, all delivered for a low monthly fee.

The salesforce.com industry is one of the fastest growing industries on the planet. Resource On Demand (ROD) was founded in Feb 2009 to assist the growth of this industry and the companies within it.
Having spent 20 years in the IT recruitment industry, our Founders have gained a solid reputation for honesty, openness and getting the job done in a notoriously fast-moving industry.

Resource On Demand is a natural progression for recruitment within the salesforce.com industry. We understand the salesforce.com industry because we’re part of it (we’re already wondering how we managed our CRM, database and accounting without it). More importantly, though, we understand how to get the right salesforce.com people into the right jobs.

With conventional recruitment, you generally pay 15-20% of the person’s base salary when they start working for you. This can be quite a large lump sum and makes the cost of recruitment difficult especially for SMEs looking to grow quickly. Often, there is no insurance against this fee either - meaning that if your new recruit doesn't survive their probation period the fee can be lost and, worse still, a new fee required to fill the position again.

With Resource On Demand, you pay a fixed, low monthly subscription fee, which starts when we find someone to fill your position and continues for the first 12 months of their career with you. If they leave, for whatever reason during the first 12 months, you simply stop paying the monthly fee. This means your costs remain unchanged even if, as can often happen in a growing industry, you end up going through half a dozen people in a year.

What you have, in effect, is ‘pay-as-you-go’ recruitment: instead of a single up-front fee, which can vary according to the salary you’re offering and the percentage your recruiter charges, you make fixed, monthly payments for as long as the position exists. This gives you complete control over your budget and the flexibility you need to scale up or down as your business evolves.

What’s more, a large up-front placement fee means it usually takes some time for a new employee to generate enough revenue to cover their recruitment costs. With Resource On Demand, a single day’s consultancy fee will easily cover your monthly subscription, so your new hire is profitable virtually straight away.

The benefits at a glance:
• Save Money - Focus Budgets on Competitive Advantage rather than Recruitment
• Low risk - Able to recruit whole teams of salesforce.com people without huge costs
• Pay as you go, predictable costs
• Flexibility and Scalability

Lee Durrant, Director of Resource On Demand says: “We felt that the salesforce.com market in the UK would explode in 2010, and that the Consulting companies within this space would need to grow quickly to meet the demands of their customers. By using our subscription recruitment model they are able to spread the cost of recruiting for the country's top salesforce.com talent.”

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