According to the fifth annual internet recruitment survey conducted by the Recruitment Confidence Index, there’s been a big rise in the proportion of firms using the internet for top-level vacancies.
Over the last year, the number of firms using their corporate sites to recruit board directors almost doubled (from 12% to 23%). Even more impressively, the proportion regarding this as a success rose from 34% to 81%.
And over the same period, the use of commercial job boards to fill top-level positions has more than trebled (from 4% to 13%), with a success rate rising from 54% to 72%.
The conclusion is that more and more companies are now using the internet in addition to ëtraditional’ media and methodologies for senior-level recruitment, with the aim of widening the pool of potential candidates. As a result, web-based recruitment can now be seen to embrace virtually every industry sector, job discipline and salary level.
Yet in spite of this, there’s still a ëhard core’ of employers (some 40%) who not only don’t use the internet for recruitment at present, but apparently have no plans to do so.
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Big rise in the proportion of firms using the internet for top-level vacancies