The Internet has opened up a lot of gateways for HR managers looking for good candidates in tight labour markets. Online job boards, in particular, allow us to communicate with a greater number of people in a shorter period of time than ever before. Like all powerful tools, however, they need to be managed well, according to Larry Cucchi, Director of Operations for Peopleclick, the global leader in workforce management technology and services.
Today, a global corporation will typically use around 150 to 200 online job boards on a regular basis, as part of its recruitment toolset. Companies dealing with this volume of sites, by necessity, need ways to track and handle the data flowing between them.
Cucchi believes that the two most important benefits which HR professionals need from their job posting technology are time and cost efficiencies: ’One click’ posting, as its name suggests, has a significant effect on the amount of administrative work involved in recruitment. Hiring managers can use this function to set up distribution lists to their chosen job boards, then post one advertisement to all of them with a single click. An additional benefit of this function is that it reduces the potential for errors and helps standardise the postings. Recruitment management solutions, such as Peopleclick RMS, can help with these distribution lists by grouping the daunting array of job boards by type.
With recruiters able to manage the entire process of multiple job postings from their desks and with responses automatically routed to the online application page of the organisation, it’s easy to see how these capabilities can help to improve efficiency, and reduce both time and cost. When selecting online recruitment management tools, it’s worth ensuring they can monitor which site each response comes from, feeding that information into the application tracking process. This will add great value when it comes to reporting and evaluation of which job sites are the best in terms of candidate responses and quality.
Cucchi concludes: In difficult economic times, the right people are a company’s most valuable asset. The Internet is undeniably changing the way we recruit, opening up new ways of reaching the best candidates. Companies both large and small are turning to recruitment management tools to enable them to take harness of its power, rather than be harnessed by it.
Are we fully exploiting the internet for recruitment, asks peopleclick
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