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Recruitment

The website that has been overviewed is www.totaljobs.com, having used this website before myself; I have a wider awareness of the website and its efficiency.

This is a Screen shot of my chosen recruitment website.
The website which stands out to me, from the brilliant use of colour and the detailed information you can research. The following reason is why I think this is a great website:

• Detailed job sectors
• Easy to search your desired job
• Search jobs in your area
• Use-full advertisements
• Information for recruiters
• User friendly website
• Information on how to improve your CV
• Information training and development

This information from this website indicates to me that you can personalise your job search as well as you can benefit from the development services of you CV.


The most recent recruitment campaign that I have found extremely eye catching, even though it has been happening for a number of years but I only just discovered it, is john Lewis as the company is not only recruiting people but it is also gives its employees a share of the company as they join, so not only do they become and employee, they also become a shareholder of the company. I think this is a fantastic scheme which enables individuals to be more highly motivated in what they are doing as they have a share into the business themselves. John Lewis advertises their vacancy through the town’s local agency, so they put their local community who are the potential consumers to advantage of their fantastic schemes.

Advantages of online recruitment...
• Cost effective
Putting a job vacancy on your own company website costs you nothing while putting one on a job board usually only costs a couple of hundred pounds or Euros. When you consider that a recruitment consultant fee for a candidate could be anything up to 20% of the first year's salary, and that advertising in a national newspaper can cost thousands, you can immediately see the cost savings possible with online recruitment.
• Online recruitment is quick
A job vacancy can be put on a job site in the morning, the first applications arrive by lunchtime, and a candidate interviewed by the end of the day. Of course, it isn't always like this. It isn't even often like this. But the fact that such things do happen so quickly gives an indication of just how quick recruiting online can be.
• Online recruitment gives you a better chance of success
Traditional print advertising — is it national, local or trade press — faces limitations: the success of a vacancy advertisement depends on people happening upon the ad on a particular page in a particular issue. Online recruitment is different. A job vacancy advertisement on a job board or website is there 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, for as long as you desire. Candidates can come back to it again and again. From office administrator to Financial Director: they are all online.
• Online recruitment gives you a bigger audience
many people new to online recruitment think that using job sites is only effective if you are looking for young net-savvy Facebook-type people. This simply isn't the case. Research consistently shows that the average age of candidates using job sites is around 35 years old. And the trend is up. Online recruitment is now a standard part of most people's job hunting no matter what level or age.
• Online recruitment is easy
it really is. Posting a job on your own site is straightforward enough. Most job sites and CV databases are very user-friendly and you don't need to have an in-depth knowledge of IT to post a vacancy advertisement. Usually, all you need is your job description, a bit of time and a credit card. And, if you have any problems the job board sales team to help you.

The disadvantages of online recruitment...
• Too many candidates ...While you may wonder how too many candidates applying for your job could ever count as a disadvantage, it is a fact that dealing with inappropriate, irrelevant and bad candidates is the bugbear of many a HR manager. Candidate spam can waste a lot of time. However, with a bit of thought about what job site you use, how you write your job description and using candidate screening and filtering tools on job boards, it is possible to reduce the number irrelevant applicants.
• It won't always work that’s right. Online recruitment won't always work. Not every job vacancy you post can or will be filled online. There will always be difficult-to-fill jobs that can only be filled by recruitment consultants, head-hunters or in other ways. However, most companies tend to hire for pretty standard job roles so this is seldom an issue. And with more and more job seekers choosing the internet to look for jobs, and more and more job sites and job boards specialising in ever more diverse areas, those difficult-to-fill jobs are becoming fewer and fewer.
• Screening and checking the skill mapping and authenticity of millions of resumes is a problem and time consuming exercise for organisations.
• There is low Internet penetration and no access and lack of awareness of internet in many locations across eastern channel.
• Organisations cannot be dependant solely and totally on the online recruitment methods.
• In India, the employers and the employees still prefer a face-to-face interaction rather than sending e-mails.