Budgens stocks up with Amris

Specialist supermarket chain launches recruitment portal budgenscareers.co.uk with Amris technology from the Internet Corporation.

National supermarket chain Budgens, has announced the launch of a dedicated online recruitment portal - budgenscareers.co.uk - with the promise that the site will position it at the vanguard of retailís accelerating drive towards Internet-based recruitment.

Recent months have seen an explosion in the popularity of Internet job boards and ëcommunityí job sites among both job-seekers and employers. Designed and implemented in a three-way collaboration between Budgens ëAND Advertisingí
and the Internet Corporation, the new site, say Budgens, will enable them to tap directly into that opportunity.

Budgenscareers.co.uk has been built using Amris, the Internet Corporationís powerful e-recruitment platform and is among the first web sites of its kind in the supermarket sector.

As such, says Duncan Turner, HR Manager at Budgens, it should benefit the company in several respects - helping attract top-calibre candidates, reducing administrative burden, and offering short, medium and long term cost savings.

ìProviding an impactful, hugely cost effective and efficient way for us to reach potential candidates whom we might otherwise miss, budgenscareers.co.uk will
form a major part of our recruitment strategy and policy. It, and sites like it, are pushing recruitment on to an exciting new plane, and weíre thrilled to be a part
of that process.î

Charged by Budgens with researching and project managing the siteís development, Turner has become something of an evangelist for the value-add the Internet can deliver for recruiters.

ìJob hunting is now one of the top five uses of the Internet and more and more people are using the web as their primary job search mechanism. That positions
web recruitment platforms such as Amris as incredibly powerful tools in the hunt for good people. And thatís a difficult argument to ignore.î

Budgens looked at several potential solutions, but Turner says that Amris was the only one that could deliver what Budgens was looking for in terms of both functionality and price.

Mark Kieve, CEO at the Internet Corporation says that cost is, of course, a prime consideration in e-recruitment, but that itís rare to find a solution like Amris that is both extremely competitive in price and superbly functional. He comments: ìSites like budgenscareers.com are creating a ground swell of change in the recruitment market that is beneficial for both businesses and their employees.î

ìThey are enabling employers to reach and identify potential candidates more quickly, accurately and efficiently, at lower cost, whilst employees can find jobs
that match their skills with much less effort. Everybody wins.î

Having registered, candidates are kept up to date with the siteís most suitable jobs via personalised email alerts - an ideal way to keep in close touch even with those candidates whom arenít required immediately but might fit in the future, says Kieve.

Turner agrees, offering words of caution for those ignoring such signs and biding their time before deploying e-recruitment platforms. ìBefore long, if you donít have an online recruitment forum, youíll be dead in the water. Itís as simple as that.î

He also believes that the site could have a wider, more subliminal impact.

It is the companyís hope, he says, that budgenscareers.co.uk will help its parent company challenge retailís biggest names not just in terms of finding the best people, but in enhancing its image and profile.