Internet Recruitment

Recruitment, rather than business strategy or management, is now the number one problem for half of UK companies.

British bosses are pouring money into recruiting new talent but have little idea whether the cash is being well spent, and when things go wrong their answer is simply to throw yet more money at the problem.

The explosion in internet recruitment sites has created a generation of job flirts whose loyalty to their employer is quick to evaporate and who are always on the lookout for the next career opportunity.

A fourth of employees who use a computer at work admit to having used it to look for a new job online, a U.S study has suggested.

Companies that use online job application systems, instead of more traditional paper-based recruitment methods, get a greater number of applicants aged over 30 and better quality candidates overall, according to new research.

Supermarket chain Sainsbury's has become the first major UK employer to introduce an Internet only staff recruitment scheme after research, showed that the vast majority of the 50,000 people who apply for jobs with the firm every year would prefer to apply online than use paper forms.

First it was electonic CVs replacing paper, now, according to a study, online CVs are being replaced by web-based candidate profiles in one of the biggest changes to online recruitment in years.

A new service that enables independent consultants to auction their services to the highest bidder in a echo of the online auction model made ubiquitous by E-Bay looks set to shake up the recruitment market.

A few years back, many people predicted that web portfolios would replace the CV / Resume as the main tool in the job-seekers armoury. It never happened.

Too much valuable graduate talent is being ‘lost in the system’ by Britain's employers despite huge expenditure in time, technology and money.

With thoughts already turning to the annual recruitment round in the New Year, an HR consultancy has uncovered its own list of top interview and application blunders.

Next year is likely to be a tough one for employers, who will be under pressure on pay and prices while at the same time finding it harder than ever to recruit the right people into vacant jobs.

Scanning the job ads may be the conventional way to find a new job, but if you really want to make that career move, getting out and meeting potential employers is the answer.

Companies are increasingly using the internet to fill their top jobs, with almost a quarter even using the web for board-level appointments.

In a new development in online fraud, popular jobs boards have been targeted by organised criminals to ‘recruit’ people to act as unwitting money launderers.

A deluge of 'GradSpam' from unsuitable job applicants has been blamed for a massive slump in the use of the internet as a recruitment tool by employers.

Grad-spam is the latest corporate email scourge as tens of millions of unsolicited and unsuitable job applications clog up recruiters’ inboxes in a torrent that threatens to outdo the unwanted ads for Viagra and pornography sites.

Would eliminating job boards in their current form be the first step in improving the hiring process?

The UK National Health Service has announced a £6m online recruitment project due to launch in 2004.

Employers still aren't getting it right when it comes to online recruitment. New research has revealed a startling disparity between between jobseekers' use of the web and what is actually provided by employers.

Most employers are trying to speed up their recruitment processes after losing good candidates to competitors. But the public sector is lagging behind – nearly half of their vacancies take more than two months to fill.

Now that searching for jobs online is an everyday activity, is it time to stop talking about 'online recruitment' and accept that it's just one part of the broader recruitment mix?

Almost 50% of employers now go on-line to fill their vacancies – nearly three times the number who used the internet three years ago.

Newspapers are still the most popular method of advertising jobs despite the sharp downturn in press advertising in the last 12 months.

Views on the role of the internet in recruitment have totally changed since the first online recruitment sites set up only a few years ago. At this year's annual Recruitment Society Internet debate, opinions were sharply polarised.

Job hunting on the Internet has brought with it it own unwritten rules. Online recruitment expert Lindsay McEwan explains the netiquette around searching and applying for jobs on the web.

There’s more to a brand than its design values - especially where the web’s concerned, believes Oliver West. Nowadays it’s functionality that’s the watchword. Everybody goes on- line to save time through a hassle- free experience

You know the web’s going to play a key part in your European recruitment strategy. But says who? Where do you start sorting fact from fiction?

In the today's global market, human capital is the new currency and today’s motto is, “think global, recruit global”. And the Internet is the key trigger for the growing trend of recruitment internationally.

Research carried out by Axiom Software, creators of JobQ recruitment software, found that almost one in three of graduates expect a response to a job application within two weeks, and a third within one week. But companies are failing to do this, with only one in six of companies managing to respond within a week.