Previous forms of recruitment may include newspaper adverts, local or national, shop window signs or a careers section on your company’s website; all ...
Previous forms of recruitment may include newspaper adverts,
local or national, shop window signs or a careers section on your company’s website; all vary in effectiveness and of course, price, but as we advance into the modern age, are there more effective recruitment methods available?
Of course; job boards are now arguably the favoured method of recruitment, with both job seekers and employers. Why? Job boards offer a number of advantages that previous recruitment methods can’t, we’ll explain exactly how they can benefit you below…
Reach a Wider Audience
You’re likely to receive much better application rates with job boards than using your own company careers section, as they’ll specifically target candidates across the whole country and implement a number of measures to ensure you’ll receive maximum exposure when you post jobs. With your own careers section, you’re relying on candidates to think of your company when beginning their job search and specifically visit you to search for any vacancies. However, the compilation of 1000s of jobs across the country will mean millions of candidates visit job boards as their first port of call.
Quality Candidates
With a newspaper advert, although will most likely reach a large audience, you could get anyone applying! You’ll be inundated with potentially irrelevant applications and still not found the appropriate candidate. Job boards use features such as Screening Questions and CV relevancy indicators to ensure the applications you receive are as relevant as possible when you post jobs.
Value for Money
National newspaper fees to post jobs are incredibly expensive, and they may not even be seen! Job adverts are commonly put on back pages, so you’re money is likely to be spent as lining for the fish and chips and not a job seekers dream opportunity. Job boards offer competitive and cost effective fees to post jobs, tailoring costs to your individual recruitment needs. You can also enhance your campaign further with a number of different tools to increase exposure and application rates.
Ease of Use
It’s important for a job board’s site to be straightforward and easy to use, if not; they won’t attract enough candidates for you to post jobs. The sites are specifically designed to be easy to navigate, both from recruiter and candidate perspective, ensuring that you know exactly what you’re doing.
CV Database Access
Most job boards will work in two ways, candidates can access the vast array of jobs available on the site, but recruiters can often search through CVs as well! As well as posting jobs, you can head-hunt candidates directly, just in case they haven’t seen your job ad already.
CV-Library is the UK’s leading independent job board, with the fastest growing CV database, currently boasting over 5.9 million registered CVs! The job board attracts 135,000 new CVs registered and 1 million job applications monthly. To find out more about posting jobs with CV-Library, contact their Sales Team today: 01252 810995
