Corporate recruiting online
Total incompetence or outright discrimination?
Hire Strategies release their first e-recruitment report as part of an ongoing series about the real issues that employers face when implementing a direct resourcing strategy.
The report exposes astonishing facts about online inefficiency, lost talent and applicant discrimination - and how employers can avoid making the same mistakes.
Recruiting online has now been adopted by the majority of small, medium and large well known employers, yet most still do not know what to do or how to avoid the obvious mistakes. This being the case we wanted to find out to what extent it is really helping the employer but also if they treating applicants efficiently and fairly. To do this we undertook a mystery applicant programme and have detailed the results within our report.
The findings will astonish the reader with the apparent level of undetected discrimination taking place in online recruiting, and outlines the general issues that applicants face such as:
- Up to 28% of the employers surveyed were overtly discriminating.
- A further 14% of employers did not even bother to respond to applicants.
Clearly employers have a lot to do to improve their online recruiting capability to ensure they attract and hire great people.
The report is divided into the following sections:
Surviving online
Some of the key challenges employers face when recruiting online.
The research
Background and objectives, types of employers surveyed and mystery applicants.
The results
Levels of applicant service, discrimination and overall employer performance.
Discrimination
Is it rife, accidental or downright incompetence.
Losers to leaders
How employers rank against set criteria in a standard framework.
Recommendations
Hire Strategies Top 10 checklist to help you avoid the same costly mistakes and stay in front.
Mystery applicant
How this programme can pinpoint what you are doing online.
What next
Steps you should take before it's too late!
The full report can be downloaded from the e-recruitment reports section of our website.
Posted on: 16-Jan-2008@22:12:56, updated on: 16-Jan-2008@22:12:56.
