How Clients can work more efficiently and effectively with eCruit

eCruit is an easy-to-use portal that lets you manage temporary staff from your desktop or mobile device, 24/7 and 365 days a year.

It makes covering for illness, staff shortages, holidays and short-term demand easy, fast and secure. It lets you re-book trusted favourites, or search for new Candidates. And there’s no calling or waiting around for confirmation, because eCruit works in real time.

eCruit doesn’t just help you fill shifts. It takes care of paperwork and payroll, putting valuable management information at your fingertips.

eCruit is managed by ASA Recruitment who constantly monitor the shift diaries to ensure that all Client shift requirements are filled. Our Account Controllers will proactively contact our registered and fully trained bank of temporary workers to ensure that all shifts are covered for our Client should there be any gaps.

Key benefits to ASA Clients:

  • Frees up time to focus on other Management responsibilities as staff shift scheduling can sometimes become a full-time position.
  • Clients have an ongoing source of qualified, responsible and reliable temporary workers.
  • Provides holiday and sick leave cover so ensures full headcount by qualified personnel – especially important in cover for hospitals and care homes.
  • Reduces the amount of paperwork as all shifts are booked and processed online.
  • Takes the strain off permanent staff members as it allows them flexibility in their own scheduling e.g. part time, full time and overtime.
  • Manages payment system more efficiency and effectively – ASA Recruitment manage payroll for all temporary employees including issue of P45s and P60s etc.
  • Easy to use, clean and clear interface.
  • Automatically creates workload schedules, shift plans, work and task lists.
  • Provides source of temporary workers with correct skills, availability and location.
  • Access with any device at any time.
  • Safe and secure – both Clients and Clients have to be registered users with password control access.
  • Provides important MI on temporary staff working patterns.
  • Allows Collaborative Scheduling. Temporary Workers set their own availability and manage shift trades. This allows managers to simply ensure that all shifts are covered and approve employee requests and input. Managers can save up to 80 percent of the time previously spent creating schedules by sharing scheduling responsibilities.

Important Information

ASA’s Temporary Workers are sourced independently by ASA and put in an approved ‘workforce pool’. These Temporary Workers are fully registered (compliant with working regulations etc) and have been assessed by an ASA trainer (including an in-house qualified nurse if appropriate).

Where relevant, they have undergone training in the area they will be working in e.g. moving and handling, medicine distribution, looking after children and vulnerable people etc. They have also undertaken online tests for knowledge and language. They are kitted out with ASA branded work wear where appropriate.