The online recruitment site that I am going to review is Reeds, www.reeds.co.uk. Reeds was launched in 1995 and now are one of UK’s biggest online recruitment agencies that is used by different people who are searching for jobs in the UK. It has been said on their website that “Today, reed.co.uk is the UK's most visited job site. Each month, more than 3 million jobseekers use reed.co.uk in their search for work, making over 60,000 applications every day.” (Source: Hitwise, Jan-Dec 2010). Reeds have 350 offices across the UK and the jobs that become available come from over 8,000 recruiters including recruitment agencies and private and public sectors.
This graphs shows the job opportunities across the UK has increased up 9 index point since December 2009 to January 2011 according to the report from the website itself. Employers demand has increased by 13% from pre-Christmas lows to give a Reed Job Index reading of 113. This has been the highest since the Index began. Private sector growth is responsible for this increase, as new public sector jobs remain less than half their level of a year ago. Reference: http://news.reed.co.uk/?paged=2
Reeds website has quoted “We are committed to offering a fully accessible and inclusive website for all jobseekers and recruiters”. This means that this recruitment website has been designed for all users and for those who have a disabilities can also benefit from their online service. Using key board control, users can also change text size by, select 'View', then 'Text Size' and select your preferred size. The website is coded with valid XHTML 1.0 and all Style Sheets used conform to CSS 1.0. They also have the following:
- Use an easy to read font size and style
- Allow users to resize all text across the site
- Use sufficiently contrasting foreground and background colours
- Provide meaningful text for all images
- Separate page content and layout and use cascading style sheets
- Provide a full site map
- Ensure all pages function correctly without JavaScript
The recruitment campaign that really interested me is Recruits Event Service. This event service group look to employ the right individual for their group as their requirements say that experience is not essential and they provide full time training. This campaign really got me interested as I have no CSI license however, I have a great passion for wanting to steward at famous sporting venues and this organisation enabled me to fulfil this desire. Having grown up watching my idols such as Anna kournikova, playing at these famous venues, it grabbed my interest to work in such an environment. Also, having the opportunity to be a part of memorable sporting occasions appealed to me very much. Although the salary was not as appealing compared to other campaigns, I was willing to compromise as this opportunity meant working while enjoying these sporting events.
Online recruitment has its advantages and disadvantages. The advantage of online recruitment is that it is cost effective. When organisations put their vacancy on their website, it will cost them nothing whereas if an organisation uses job boards or the newspapers it will cost couple of hundreds. Also, the vacancy can be advertised whenever the organisation needs to on the website and it will not cost anything whereas using newspapers or job boards will cost every time an organisation needs to use it. Another advantage is that it is very quick and time consuming.
Organisations can put up a job vacancy in the morning and the first candidates can get an interview straight away. This saves a lot of time for the organisation and the candidates applying for the job. Using online recruitment gives the organisation a bigger audience. Majority of the people in the UK are using online websites to search for jobs. A research in the UK has said that average age of candidates who use jobsites are people 35 years of age. Online recruitment is also most people’s job hunting resource no matter what age range they are from. Another advantage of online recruitment is that is it extremely easy as most job websites are user friendly and do not require in-depth knowledge of IT to post a vacancy advertisement. Online recruitment helps organisation pick out the best candidates in an automated way and manages to dismiss unqualified candidates which saves a lot of time for the organisation.
However, online recruitment has its disadvantages which are that they can be too many candidates applying for the job. Inappropriate candidates may apply for the job which can waste time and it may become difficult to limit the amount of applicants. Another disadvantage can be that some organisations may not receive the right qualified candidate through online jobs and can miss out on having the right candidate for the job. Another main disadvantage is that if a candidate is from a far distant, it will require telephone interview instead of a face to face interview which means the employer won’t really be able to tell the candidates personality and this can become the wrong decision for the organisation.
Some people can give false information when applying for a job online. This can be a big disadvantage for the organisation as the information the candidate have said on their profile may not be true. This can only be settled once the candidate meets the employer and this can waste more time. Article Source: http://EzineArticles.com/4932418. Another disadvantage of online recruitment is that it can limit the attraction for those who are unable to use technology. These candidates include disabled people with dyslexia. These people may be the right one for the job however, they may miss their chance due to less knowledge of technology.
In conclusion, I have learnt a lot on this topic as I did not have a great understanding on how organisations use recruitment methods. This has also made me aware of what to expect when going through the recruitment process in the future.
Reference:
- Roberts, G. (1997) Recruitment And Selection. The Cromwell Press: Wiltshire
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