CareerJunction honours recruiters who make a difference in the lives of careerseekers

CareerJunction will once again honour South African Recruitment Agencies at the 5th Annual Junction Awards to be held in August 2008. The Junction Awards give career seekers the opportunity to vote for Recruitment Agencies that have displayed outstanding and exemplary recruitment practises.

The following are the nomination criteria that career seekers rate the Recruitment Agencies against:

Personal Service: The Agency gives regular feedback to the career seeker.

Understanding the Career Seekerís Requirements: The Agency matches the candidateís career requirements and aspirations to a job and provides them with accurate information about the job requirements.

Advice & Guidance: The Agency prepares the candidate for the interview with the client by explaining the job requirements thoroughly, as well as providing them with sufficient information about the company to which they have submitted the candidateís details.

Negotiation: The Agency secured interviews for the job seeker to attend and provided them with adequate post interview feedback.

Securing Interviews: The Agency represented the career seeker and their requirements adequately to the client to whom the career seeker was put forward to.

Placement (if placed): The Agency successfully placed the career seeker in a job matching their aspirations.

Post Placement (if placed): The Agency makes regular contact with the candidate to ensure that they are satisfied in their new position.

The Junction Awards are an innovation of CareerJunction, South Africaís leading career web service and are held in association with Sowetan and Sunday World newspapers for the third consecutive year. ìWe are delighted to be associated with the Junction Awards for the third year running, together with CareerJunction. Being faced with a high unemployment rate in our country, itís good to know that we are contributing to help career seekers find a job, through our job market editions, which are specifically targeted and have shown a positive growth since our association with CareerJunctionî said Bongani Keswa ñ Publisher of Sowetan and Sunday World.

The 2007 Recruiter of the Year winners were Kelly, Quest Flexible Staffing Solutions and Accountants on Call. The 2008 Junction Awards will give CareerJunctionís almost 1000 Recruitment Agencies the opportunity to be nominated for excellent service from the point of view of the candidate.

By participating in the voting, career seekers stand a chance of winning a Thinkpad T61 Laptop worth over R 10 000. CareerJunctionís job seekers are no strangers to rewards as there are Holiday Reward Vouchers for every career seeker to claim when they get placed through the CareerJunction Network.

ìThe Junction Awards have shown an incredible growth since their first inception in 2004. They have become an important event in the Recruitment calendar, and we are honoured to be hosting such prestigious awards. We at CareerJunction are proud to be of service to the registered career seekers and Recruiters alike. Good luck to the Recruiters for this yearís Junction Awards,î said Kris Jarzebowski - CEO of CareerJunction, an Avusa Media Company.

For more information on the Junction Awards, please email colleen@careerjunction.co.za.