Microsoft and Mercury, the partnership that’s changing recruitment and staffing

Mercury has formed a strategic multi-year alliance with Microsoft. This partnership promises to bring significant benefits to Mercury’s clients, enhancing their recruitment processes through the power of Microsoft’s Cloud and AI technologies. Here’s a closer look at what that means for Mercury clients.

Enhanced Effectiveness

The partnership between Microsoft and Mercury leverages advanced AI technology to make recruiters significantly more effective.

This technology bridges skills gaps by assisting with generating job ads and candidate summaries as well as enhancing the search criteria, helping consultants identify and match candidates with the precise skills required for job openings.

It reduces administrative burdens by automating routine tasks, allowing recruiters to focus on high-value activities Additionally, AI minimises the “thinking time” by providing data-driven insights and recommendations, guiding recruitment consultants to their next best actions.

This means recruiters can work more efficiently, make betterinformed decisions, and ultimately deliver superior results for their clients.

Our innovative technology enables recruiters to use their databases more effectively by leveraging candidate information to uncover connections and networks that might otherwise go unnoticed.

This powerful tool highlights potential hires from within their network, past work history, or those with similar backgrounds and interests, capitalising on the tendency for people to hire individuals they share connections with.

By doing so, Mercury not only helps fill vacancies and job orders more efficiently but turns the process around, enhancing business development by placing individuals into roles that are wellsuited for them, enhancing your recruitment success.

Improved Efficiency

One of the primary advantages of this partnership is the dramatic improvement in recruitment efficiency.

By integrating Microsoft’s cutting-edge AI capabilities, Mercury’s platform is able to process vast amounts of data quickly and accurately.

This means that recruitment agencies using Mercury’s platform can expect faster and more precise candidate matching.

As a result, fill rates will improve while the number of candidate submissions needed for each position will decrease significantly.

Streamlined Operations

The partnership is delivering tools that help streamline operations for Mercury’s clients.

With automated workflows and enhanced data integration, recruiters can focus more on personal interactions and building relationships rather than getting bogged down in manual processes.

This operational efficiency will save time and improve the overall experience for both recruiters and candidates.

Improved Collaboration and Decision-Making

Microsoft’s cloud computing services and tools like Teams enhance collaboration for recruitment agencies.

By removing data barriers and enabling seamless communication between coworkers and clients, recruiters will be able to work more cohesively.

Lightning-fast AI

The alliance provides dedicated AI processing capacity for Mercury clients, ensuring that AI tools are delivered swiftly and efficiently.

This dedicated capacity means that recruiters will experience faster processing times for advanced AI capabilities.

This speed enhancement ensures that tasks such as candidate matching and data analysis are performed quickly.

Future-Ready Recruitment

This partnership positions Mercury’s clients at the forefront of digital transformation in the recruitment and staffing profession.

By leveraging Microsoft’s leading-edge AI and cloud technologies, Mercury is introducing innovation that will redefine staffing practices.

Clients can look forward to tools that increase consultant capacity, make them more effective and significantly improve fill rates.

For more information on the partnership, you can read the full press release here.