Recruitment

Recruitment is a process organisations use to attract new qualified or experienced individuals who are willing to apply for job vacancies. Organisations or Firm recruit certain job role, whereas many individual with load of different skills and experienced apply for those jobs, which can help their firms to grow. The business then chooses the best applicant out of all, this is a very time consuming and not effective enough.

Recruitment Campaign

I was reviewing few online recruitment website, whereas I believe www.fish4.co.uk was an effective website. Fish4jobs is a very bright website, which can be easily found out the purpose of the website, which is there for anyone to search for jobs. The bright colour of the website is orange and white which stands out as well as they have maintained that colour throughout which is a positive point. They have used common fonts which make it easier to read and the same time they have Bold the titles or heading which shows out. The logo of the website has been well maintained throughout the website, as I have tried to reach some jobs and I saw the logo of the website on every single website. This again is an advantage as people get familiar with the name of the website which can then be passed on to other people such as word of mouth. I also believe that this website is an easy site to navigate around. There are main job titles displayed on the side on the homepage, but to look for the most accurate matches you can also type it in the search box and then search. Another feature I liked about the website is that you can subscribe yourself to get email’s regarding the jobs that you are looking for and can be informed about the latest job that available to you. If you weren’t sure with what exactly you want to search, you can just search with title that you think is the closest as it will be up all the close searches. To make the search even tidier they have also got location where you wish to find a job at and the amount of miles you are willing to travel from the chooses location. Help or advice is also being offered on the website such as CV writing, preparing for an interview, etc, which is again a key point. In overall I believe that their website has been designed with well thought and also easy to use, which is a good reputation for them.

An online recruitment campaign that has really interested me was the Reed website www.reed.co.uk. The main thing what I liked about the website was the way they have laid it out, which is very neat and tidy. It is a really easy website to go around on. Reed online recruitment campaign has got pretty much the same facilities which Fish4jobs had and is the reason why I also like that website. I have known the Reed online recruitment website for some time now, which has build of the confident on that page a bit more.

Online job search on that website is now the best thing to do, as it has advantages as well as disadvantages which are included below.

Advantages:

§  It is quick way of posting a vacancy which saves a lot of time and money. Also this is the quick way of posting a CV too, which the employer then can view and make a decision as soon as possible.

§  You are able to apply for more than one job that suits you circumstance most and it also allows you to search the type of job that is most suitable you want.

§  Advertising through website is much cheaper for the company rather than putting them up on newspaper or magazine as its cost will be less.

§  The online recruitment system gives you the most information about the job, which allows you to decide before u apply if that is suitable for you. E.g. the salary is also posted with the job, which you get to find out before meeting the employer. Therefore this makes it easier for is

§  Vacancies will be posted regularly, for which you wouldn’t have to worry. If for an example you saw a vacancy on your newspaper, you would have to ring them up to see if that is still available, whereas the online vacancy would give all up to date information about the jobs.

Disadvantage:

§  For those who prefer contacting them face to face is a disadvantage in this case online recruitment campaigns are disadvantages for them as the most part of the process is being done online, whereas you wouldn’t be able to see the employer.

§  Those people who are just hunting online for a vacancy, whereas their specific jobs are being advertised differently such as on the shop floors are being disadvantaged by this.

§  When an employer creates the profile for a certain job role and he doesn’t set the criteria’s properly, he is more likely to be struggling as he can start receiving a massive number of applications. This would be time wasting also hassle going through them. 

§  As there are a lot of choices on the online recruitment websites, this would be even a disadvantage for some as they might have less chances of success as there are to look up on.

§   The internet access could be a disadvantage as there are still people without internet at home. For them, they wouldn’t be able to check in daily basis until they find the job they were looking for or even getting email about the job role they looking for will be checked fewer. This is a disadvantage for them.

In conclusion I have learnt that there are many benefits when you are searching for jobs online on one of the recruitment website, but as the same time should be aware of the disadvantages it had. Overall I believe the online Recruitment tool is a very effective way of finding vacancies, but same time not just rely on that and also make some other researches for vacancies.

  

Reference:

Yuri Arcurs. (2009). The advantages and disadvantages of online recruitment. Available: http://www.whatjobsite.com/Online%20Recruitment:%20Advantages%20and%20disadvantages.htm. Last accessed 20th Apr 2011.

Anon. (2011). Find jobs. Available: http://www.fish4.co.uk. Last accessed 19th Apr 2011.

Anon. (2011). Job search. Available: http://www.reed.co.uk/. Last accessed 19th Apr 2011.