IMPROVE YOUR RECRUITMENT PROCESSES - TRY GOING ONLINE!

We are living in times when business confidence is at best fragile.

At such times proportionately more attention is given to improving the efficiency and effectiveness of internal processes rather than the more speculative and risky externally biased activities such as business development.

The Scottish Food & Drink Federation has identified increased use of the Internet for recruitment as one area where businesses can achieve quick wins. Even when overall staff numbers may be static or decreasing
there is still usually a residual recruitment need either through reorganisation or natural wastage.

Lehman Brothers Research and Kennedy Information have published results of USA based empirical research which shows that the Internet enables a significant reduction to be achieved in both the direct recruitment cost and the recruitment cycle time. On average the Internet was shown to be 12.5 times cheaper than a headhunter and 5 times cheaper than a newspaper. In addition, the recruitment cycle time was shown on average to be reduced from 90 days to 30 days by using the Internet.

The SFDF together with Jobsin.co.uk plc have developed an online recruitment offering designed to specifically cater for the needs of the manufacturing sector - appropriately called www.jobsinmanufacturing.co.uk , which is effectively a sub-section of the www.jobsinscotland.co.uk website.

Flora McLean, Director of SFDF said We see
www.jobsinmanufacturing.co.uk as a quality Internet recruitment advertising service that even in tough times can be truly valued by our Membership.

Gary Beresford, CEO of Jobsin.co.uk plc added Internet recruitment has over the last few years earned its place as an essential ingredient in the recruitment process of any business wanting to have a balanced and effective hiring strategy.