Switching to Online Recruitment

After recently submitting an article to the Jobs.co.za website I wanted to point Recruiters attention the article entitled “The Advantages of Online Recruitment“ and remind all of the extended benefit gained from Recruiting on the web.

Turning to the internet as a feasible staffing application has been one that has displayed continuous momentum and gusto in the South African Employment market.

But if you are still not convinced here’s why… (taken from my article)

Greater Geographical Reach on Skilled workers.

All South African Recruiters are well aware that currently the South African Job market is lacking in the area of skilled workers in a very big way. With a high demand for skilled workers but unsatisfied by a poor supply, Recruiters need to find ways to locate the skilled workers remaining in the country, as few and far between that they may be. By advertising job adverts and searching online Job Seekers databases for such candidates’, employers are able to tap into pools of candidates that ordinarily may not have been easy to locate. Not only do online Recruiters manage to locate actively skilled workers but through means of optimised job advertising and employer marketing, Recruiters are equipped to entice the passive job market to participate as well.  In utilising online portals to seek and find skilled workers, international skills (global coverage) are too attracted to the South African market, thus injecting what could possibly be stale industry, with new talent and skills. With a greater reach on skilled workers, encompassing local and international geographical Job Seekers, Recruiters are soon able to locate relevant Job Seekers to fill job vacancies in niche industries where required.

Automated Recruitment Processes

Traditional recruiting is intrinsically labour intensive. From composing no more than a 30 word newspaper job advert, anticipating the responses, physically sifting through applications and requesting one on one interview’s is doesn’t get more tiring than this. These few steps are in fact only the very surface of what conventional recruitment entails and traditionally there are quite a few more steps involved in placing a relevant candidate in the right role. When recruiting online and utilising the extensive tools available to e-cruiters (online Recruiters) the overall recruitment process is simplified in significant ways. Recruiting online allows for pre-screening questions to be posed to prospecting Job seekers, bulk short listing and regretting and ultimately quickens the time to hire. Online recruitment transforms what was previously a manual process into one that is automated, streamlined and proficient.

Improved Time to Hire

Working hand in hand with implementing automated processes to that of a manual recruitment function, from beginning to end is also improved on. Placing ideal candidates in relevant roles is something that takes time and patience, as with making any perfect match in life. While this is true, time is also money in the South African employment market and should Recruiters hesitate in making accurate decisions, skilled candidates can be snatched up from right beneath their nose if not equipped to make such decisions. When recruiting on the internet, due to many processes having been simplified and enhanced, Recruiters are able to shortlist relevant candidates in half the time as what traditional recruitment allows for. Once shortlisted, the interview process commences faster and ultimately makes a final employment decision that much swifter than it ordinarily would be.

Cost Effective

Some may argue that bandwidth costs and internet usage in South Africa is expensive and by no means a cost effective solution to streamlining a labour intensive business. While this may have been an accurate assessment  to make a few years ago, as South Africa continues to convert to utilising web based applications, so bandwidth costs have become more affordable, internet access easier to tap into and a greater variety of options available for companies, small and large to exercise. By assessing the extent of your recruitment agencies needs, and facilitating internet resources in the most economically viable way, Recruiters that convert to facilitating the sourcing and placement of staff by making use of the internet will notice a cost effective kick back in more ways than one. Not only are internet expenses becoming more affordable, Recruiters need also remember that with the improved time to hire and prompt and efficient delivery on service level agreements, clients will convert to return customers, staffing tenders will become more frequent and “customer loyalty” will display more sustainable guarantees for the future.

Online Recruitment has brought about exponential growth to the South African employment market like no other. Those open to converting to the solutions that online recruiting offers are able to transparently track its multiple benefits and convert manual, labour intensive functions into a simplified, automated staffing function.

Well that’s me for now.

To read the full article visit the recruiter pages on Jobs.co.za or alternatively hit click on the title here and the world of recruitment is your Oyster.

“The Advantages of Online Recruitment”

Take care and I’ll see you all tomorrow

Peace Out

Jo Blog

joblog@jobs.co.za

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