Job advertisements: Find perfect candidates Online

If you’ve decided to begin recruiting online, it’s important to know what your money could get you, to ensure you’re spending it wisely. The majority of job boards offer a vast array of tools and add-on features to enhance recruitment campaigns. Types and costs of these tools will vary according to job board, although all should help maximise views and application rates, helping you to find the perfect candidate for your vacancy. Read below to find out some of the typical tools job boards will offer to maximise campaign success…

Bespoke Company Profile

In your job advertisements, you can add a bespoke company profile that will allow candidates to see a profile of your company, maximising each candidate’s understand of the business while exhibiting professionalism. This will create a recognisable brand identity for you on the site, promoting your company and allowing candidates to find out more about you.

Targeted Emails

You can set up a targeted email to send out to relevant candidates, informing them of your job vacancies or recruitment days via the job board. Select specific criteria based on location, keywords, industry and much more, choosing the amount to send to and your branded email will be sent to candidates based on your criteria which will be relevant to your job vacancies and the job they’re applying for. This is a great way to specifically target candidates, as they will receive job vacancies straight to their inbox, ensuring they see your job advertisement and potentially apply to it.

CV Database Search

Most job boards will work two ways, in that they are essentially the ‘middle man’ of recruitment. Job boards will host and advertise a whole range of job vacancies for employers, but they will also host candidates CVs. This means that if you don’t want to just rely on having your job advertisement on the site, you can also pay for access to the CV database. Job boards will work hard to continually attract new candidates to register their CV, allowing you to search for relevant CVs with their search tool, headhunting candidates yourself.

CV Watchdogs

Similarly to the database search, the CV watchdogs allow you as a recruiter to headhunt candidates directly. However, this add on feature allows relevant candidates to be send straight to your inbox – saving you time! You’ll select criteria that candidates have to qualify for such as; location, keywords, industry and much more and the job board will email you candidates CVs the moment they’re registered. This takes the pressure away from relying on your job advertisements to do all the work, meaning you can find relevant candidates, just in case they haven’t already seen the job advert. However; you don’t have to worry about getting 1000s of emails a day, as most job boards will operate on a relevancy indicator basis, allowing you to select the minimum relevancy ensuring you only receive alerts about the most suitable candidates for your job vacancy.

Looking to post a job advert? CV-Library is the UK’s leading independent job board, with the fastest growing CV database, currently boasting over 5.8million CVs! CV-Library attract 2.3 million unique visitors every month and in turn 10.5 million job searches are made each month. CV-Library offers a cost effective fee for posting your job advertisements on their site, with the ability to add on extra tools and features like those mentioned above. Please contact CV-Library’s sales team to register for a free trial of the CV database here: 01252 810995