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Online Recruitment – A Quick Guide

Written by: Lisette Howlett

Article Overview: When seeking to recruit for vacant jobs in your company online recruiting is attractive but can be a little overwhelming. Here we offer a few handy tips and suggestions to help your recruitment process be as effective as possible.

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Online Recruitment – A Quick Guide

You need to fill that vacancy and it's hard to know where to start - there are so many on line recruitment agencies with job boards that it's really quite a task.

In the current economic climate, it's important to go on line where, upon choosing the right job board, you can save costs compared with going directly to a high street or office based agency.

It is also important to go on line because that's where so many of us are heading in this difficult time.Whether it's to find savings on every day shopping, travel and utilities - or to find a new job - going on line saves time and it provides us all with so much information as well as you being able to track everything from the moment your job ad goes on line.

Advertising your jobs on line can help your company be seen as a modern brand that is also forward thinking and innovative.Targeting your potential candidates in this way is crucial if you want to attract top performers that are well suited and perfectly placed for an interview, with the idea that you can style your job ad and describe it in more detail than you perhaps could in printed media.

Recruiting on line should be fairly easy once you have chosen a job board to advertise on.We put together this quick guide to on line recruitment to help you get the most out of your campaign.If you would like tips on how to write a job advert then click to see our advice pages.

Recruitment Budget & Strategy

Every penny counts with the recruitment process so it is a good idea to begin by looking at the recruitment boards that you already know of and comparing a few at a time.

Know exactly what your strategy is and what you need to achieve - knowing what you want as the outcome will help you focus from the beginning.

You will need a website link on the job advert, this will offer added value as people can click through to discover more about your company.Ensure your website is up to scratch and all links are working - your candidate won't hang around if they can't view what they need to in order to make a decision.

Don't link to your website if you think is not up to the job, if your company website needs a little updating then your candidates may not be very impressed with your 'forward' thinking!

Tracking

On line Recruitment allows you to track all the enquiries and applications you get, as well as how many people read the advert and click through to your website - this is great in order to compare your first on line recruitment campaign with your last one in the local newspaper.In fact, do you know how many people read the job ad in the local newspaper?

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About the Author: Lisette Howlett
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Lisette Howlett has a unique range and breadth in HR and a track record of achievement spanning 15 years with global Human Resources in blue chip companies and 5 years in local government and the public sector. This includes extensive global HR project and content leadership and internal/external HR consulting covering UK, U.S., Switzerland, Europe, and Asia. Additionally Lisette is founder of HireScores.com a website which provides independent information and real life feedback on all aspects of recruitment – serving the needs of candidates, recruiters and hiring companies. She writes and presents on HR matters with particular emphasis on recruitment, recruitment effectiveness, integrated talent management, the people and organisation side of M&A, the role of HR, strategic HR and global HR.

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