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Oct 08, 2020 04:04 PM
Hi there,
Firstly many thanks in advance for taking the time to read my post :slightly_smiling_face:
I run my own (very small) recruitment agency business and I’m looking to find out how to get started on navigating airtable as a solution.
At the moment I am using a number of different applications from disparate sources and it would be fantastic if I could start integrating everything in Airtable instead!
My current “Application Eco-System” looks like this…
As you can probably tell my data is all over the places, disorganised and I frequently find myself having to manually parse data from one place to the which is taking up time I should be spending on revenue generation.
I can appreciate this is a very broad/expanisve question but could anybody suggest how I could get started on having all my data organsied into airtable in a way that would fit my needs?
Many thanks and warmest regards
Tom
Oct 08, 2020 04:50 PM
Congrats on recognizing that your data could be improved by giving it more structure and consolidating it.
What you do depends highly on how much you want to do yourself versus hiring someone to do it for you. Hiring someone to set things up for you will be a lot faster, but could end up being beyond your budget.
If you want to do it all yourself, I suggest that you take a phased process as you learn how to use Airtable. Start with the simplest system and convert it to Airtable. Work with it for a while until you are comfortable with it. Then find the next simplest part to convert and get it setup. Eventually you will probably want to circle back to earlier setups and tweak them as you learn more about Airtable–that is totally fine and part of the fun.
I suggest that you start with your excel spreadsheets. Then move on to your daily task management. Then your project management and CRM.
You may decide that some of the parts are best left in their current apps. For example, if Zoho Recruit can search text in 20000 attachments, you might want to stay with that. Airtable cannot search inside attachments by itself. You may also want to keep your files in Dropbox and store only the urls in Airtable, especially if your data lake might push the limits of Airtable’s attachment space.
Oct 13, 2020 05:04 PM
Hi there,
Many thanks for taking the time to reply to my question!
This is all very useful information (especially the URL’s for Dropbox files!)
Thanks again