Hiring via the World Wide Web
“The study of hiring practices at leading U.S. companies revealed that Internet sources produced 51% of all hires in 2005 with the largest source of hires being the employers' own corporate web sites, while newspaper classified advertisements were the source of only 5% of the new hires.” - JOBcentral.com
Consider this surprising statistic the next time you get ready to shell out a sizeable portion of your budget to post your open positions in the local classifieds. Have you first considered whether there are more efficient ways to reach your intended audience?
According to a study posted on JOBcentral.com, the Internet has been the latest trend in hiring, with 21% of new hires recruited directly through corporate-based websites. That means that if your business has its own website, you’d be well-advised to utilize the space to promote your open positions. And where does this leave those smaller organizations who don’t currently have access to such resources? This sector can take advantage of local or national job posting boards which assisted in filling 15% of open positions in 2005.
Not only are the most positions filled through corporate websites, but the highest-quality candidate has been recruited this way as well. Corporations benefit from seeing candidates who already have researched company products and services online.
Where has your company received the best response from job seekers? Was it online or through a posting in the classifieds? Read the full article from JOBCentral.com.
Posted by Shelly Paul, Career Management Coordinator, The H.S. Group
Consider this surprising statistic the next time you get ready to shell out a sizeable portion of your budget to post your open positions in the local classifieds. Have you first considered whether there are more efficient ways to reach your intended audience?
According to a study posted on JOBcentral.com, the Internet has been the latest trend in hiring, with 21% of new hires recruited directly through corporate-based websites. That means that if your business has its own website, you’d be well-advised to utilize the space to promote your open positions. And where does this leave those smaller organizations who don’t currently have access to such resources? This sector can take advantage of local or national job posting boards which assisted in filling 15% of open positions in 2005.
Not only are the most positions filled through corporate websites, but the highest-quality candidate has been recruited this way as well. Corporations benefit from seeing candidates who already have researched company products and services online.
Where has your company received the best response from job seekers? Was it online or through a posting in the classifieds? Read the full article from JOBCentral.com.
Posted by Shelly Paul, Career Management Coordinator, The H.S. Group
posted by The H.S. Group at
8:01 AM
2 Comments:
We tend to post BOTH on our website as well as the local papers. It does seem accurate that the more informed and best-suited employees are coming from the web postings versus the newspapers.
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Anonymous, at 9:05 AM
It depends what position you're looking to fill and what type of employee you want to hire. If you want a younger, tech savvy employee, then why waste your time and money advertising in the paper? Sometimes people feel comfortable doing things the way they've been done.
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Anonymous, at 7:35 AM
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