Online Recruitment-Evolving As The Most Popular Recruiting Method In UK

They provide the companies and the job seekers with plethora of benefits that the traditional methods of recruitment were unable to yield. Web recruitment sites enable the prospective employers to place the advertisement for the vacant posts on the web-site's job portal, thus allowing the potential candidates to upload their resumes in response to the posted job vacancies that can be viewed by the recruitment personnel in order to determine whether they match the required qualifications and credentials for a certain vacant job post. If not, the ineligible resumes are discarded while the eligible ones are made to enter the next phase of recruitment that is, screening.

What gives an edge to online recruitment practices in comparison to traditional methods is the wide geographical reach. Since, Internet is most accessed source for finding vacant job posts advertisements, thus it is able to generate a wide pool of applications in response to an ad. The bigger the application generation, the greater is the likelihood of finding the right candidate best suited to the available position. Not just that, it is time saving as well. Companies might face a huge loss in case of a vacated post for a longer time period. However, web recruitment takes care of this major concern by quickly sifting through the incoming resumes with the help of screening, sorting and grading tools that are applied to quickly narrow down the applications to the most eligible ones, simultaneously weeding out the unwanted resumes. The Internet allows 24 hours job hunt and recruiting activity. This has quickened the whole process, whereas publishing an advertisement for a vacancy in newspaper could be relatively a slow process and might take a few days to appear in the newspaper.

The biggest advantage that the online recruitment method offers is the cost savings. We know that typical recruitment methods are highly expensive, and unexpected employee turnover can cause a setback on company's allocated budget. This is where web recruitment helps. It doesn't only generate response quickly but also helps the company place a vacancy advertisement on job portals of recruitment websites at much lower costs than placing an advertisement in the newspaper. Traditional recruiters demand up to a certain percentage of annual salaries fee, that can get very expensive for the companies. Recruiting online saves more than 50% percent and the process in much straightforward. There are no tough dealings and negotiations with traditional recruiters. All you need to is to have post the job vacancy featuring the job description and job requirements on the job portal which is pretty simple and as easy as posting a comment on any website. Payments for placing an advertisement are made through credit cards. Thus the whole transaction takes place with a click of mouse.

Results have shown that it isn't just young generation who apply to the jobs posted on the web portals but candidates aged 35 and above have been reported to be enthusiastically responding to the online job vacancies ads.