The organisation I work for Changework Now - www.changeworknow.co.uk is hosting a breakfast seminar on 19th November 2009 at the Landmark Hotel in London. If you are an HR Professional and would like to get a better understanding of why the candidate experience is vital when looking to attract talent to your business via your web site you are more than welcome to come along.
This is an invitation only event please call me o 07796 381502 or anil.aphale@changeworknow.co.uk to obtain an invitation.
Hope to meet you on the day.
Anil.
Monday, 26 October 2009
Wednesday, 21 October 2009
Why do recruitment agencies do it ?
As part of my job selling recruitment technology mainly in the form of Applicant Tracking solutions to corporate recruiters I have registered with a number of job boards to see what job alerts I get from them.
This was seen as a major step a few years ago when I worked on totaljobs.com as it was a way of recruiters getting relevant jobs to " passive " candidates when they may not have been actively looking to change their jobs. Since then the recruitment market has turned on it' s head and many ATS providers offer job alert facility as part of their functionality. This I would suggest is a better use of technology because if I apply to a particular company it is for a reason and a job alert will keep me in touch with an organisation I have actively said I want to work for.
On the job boards all that has happened is recruitment consultants have started to post the same job multiple times and the key words do not match the search string so this morning I have 3 job alert from totaljobs.com that contain over 50 vacancies for recruitment consultants. I have been a recruitment consultant and do not ant to be one again so all this has done is annoy me and make me write this post.
I just hope the recruitment company concerned is not paying for their postings - or do I .
This was seen as a major step a few years ago when I worked on totaljobs.com as it was a way of recruiters getting relevant jobs to " passive " candidates when they may not have been actively looking to change their jobs. Since then the recruitment market has turned on it' s head and many ATS providers offer job alert facility as part of their functionality. This I would suggest is a better use of technology because if I apply to a particular company it is for a reason and a job alert will keep me in touch with an organisation I have actively said I want to work for.
On the job boards all that has happened is recruitment consultants have started to post the same job multiple times and the key words do not match the search string so this morning I have 3 job alert from totaljobs.com that contain over 50 vacancies for recruitment consultants. I have been a recruitment consultant and do not ant to be one again so all this has done is annoy me and make me write this post.
I just hope the recruitment company concerned is not paying for their postings - or do I .
Friday, 16 October 2009
Communication - It's not rocket science - is it ?
We have all seen the older couple in a restaurant having a lovely 3 course meal that does not come cheap. The total communication between them is the odd comment on the dish they are eating and the odd comment on the weather. We all look at them and say " that will never happen to us" . But then we go back to our daily lives and we forget how to communicate with people.
Where am I going with this - Well let's look at the current situation here in the UK and being mirrored around the world - The economy is starting to recover and unemployment seems to be slowing down a little . However we all know that unemployment rises for about 18 months after the official end of a recession so there are lots of people looking for work. However recruitment never stopped even in the darkest days of the banking crisis there were still open vacancies that needed to be filled. Remember the news coverage of recruitment consultants meeting people as they left the London office of Lehman brothers with contracts ready to go.
Now lets look at how applicants are treated at the moment. The simple answer is not very well at all by a majority of corporate recruiters or staffing agencies. If some one a[plies for a job the least you can do is give them some kind of response. This can take the form of an automated e mail response saying that the next steps will take place in a certain timescale. If you make a promised KEEP it.
Alternatively you can invest some money in an Applicant Tracking Solution. These will enable you to manage the response you get to you open and speculative applications. Take candidates down a pre defined route and communicate all with the click of a mouse.
So here's the deal - Communicate with applicants. People just want to know where they stand it's not rocket science after all.
Where am I going with this - Well let's look at the current situation here in the UK and being mirrored around the world - The economy is starting to recover and unemployment seems to be slowing down a little . However we all know that unemployment rises for about 18 months after the official end of a recession so there are lots of people looking for work. However recruitment never stopped even in the darkest days of the banking crisis there were still open vacancies that needed to be filled. Remember the news coverage of recruitment consultants meeting people as they left the London office of Lehman brothers with contracts ready to go.
Now lets look at how applicants are treated at the moment. The simple answer is not very well at all by a majority of corporate recruiters or staffing agencies. If some one a[plies for a job the least you can do is give them some kind of response. This can take the form of an automated e mail response saying that the next steps will take place in a certain timescale. If you make a promised KEEP it.
Alternatively you can invest some money in an Applicant Tracking Solution. These will enable you to manage the response you get to you open and speculative applications. Take candidates down a pre defined route and communicate all with the click of a mouse.
So here's the deal - Communicate with applicants. People just want to know where they stand it's not rocket science after all.
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