Since the day and age mankind delved into commercial activities and started setting up organizations, hiring or recruitment has been an integral part of the enterprise. Since those days of yore, recruitment has come a long way. The good old ways of hiring people by short listing paper based resumes and taking in-person interviews has been replaced by profiles being shortlisted using social media websites and interviews happening virtually over the internet. Web access on mobile phones has also created a newer and faster platform for the recruitment procedures.
1. The Biggest Challenges Facing Graduate Job Seekers
The biggest challenge faced by the graduate job seeker is to grab a good job for them. Many a time’s graduates have to work for free as they are labelled as a most inexperienced lot. The exploitation level is very high for the graduate job seekers and many graduates go for unpaid internship that may go up to 2 years in some cases.
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2. The Role Of Video In Employee Communications
The increased use of online technology and digital production has been inspiring human resource and other senior officials in any organisation to communicate with their employees with the help of a video. 81% employers are making the use of video to communicate with their employees. 87.1% companies are creating videos having content rich with business strategies and company updates.
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3. Social Media And The Effect On Recruitment
Recruitment agencies and companies all across the world are making use of social media for recruiting and hiring new employees. In the year 2012 in US itself, 92% companies have made use of social media for recruiting and hiring new employees. 7 out of 10 employers have successfully hired a new candidate with the help of social media.
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4. Mobile Recruiting Readiness
Mobile is no longer a future weapon it is the masterpiece of present that is helping people in every walk of their lives. Mobiles are not only used for web access, shopping, banking and gaming but these days mobiles have been also used for recruiting the potential talent.
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5. Hiring Practices In MENA Region
74.6% people told that they would hire a person in their team who is more qualified, intelligent and capable than them. 59.6% of people were willing to hire people who were older than them, in their professional team.
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6. Retail Job Postings By The Numbers, All Canadian Editions
From January 1st to March 31st in the year 2012 almost 46,753 retail jobs were posted online in Canada. The online job postings have been witnessing a huge increase in Canada from last couple of years.
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7. UK Financial Services Hiring Intentions 2013
The year 2013 was the strong year in terms of recruitment almost 35% people believed that permanent recruitment will rise in coming years. 71% people believed that 2013 will be better as compared to 2012 in terms of business. 57% feel that the headcount in their business will grow in the year 2013.
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8. Overseas Recruitment And Job Placement Agencies
There are 3 major reasons that make people fly abroad and they are employment, education and holidays. Most popular job categories that help people move to other country for employment are construction, oil and gas, healthcare, hospitality, engineering, IT, finance and labourers.
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9. Job Searching Through Social Media
89% companies are willing to use social media networking for recruitment in their firm in the year 2012. 86% employers think that candidates must make their profile more employers friendly and 92% hiring manager in the year 2012 hired through social media networking.
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10. Social Networking For Jobseekers
Social networking is not only helping people to get connected with their old buddies but it is also supporting the job seekers to get a good job for them. 88% of all the job seekers have at least one social networking profile. 23% of job seekers have been asked about the social media profile. 38% jobseekers use LinkedIn for selecting the candidates for any particular job opening.
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11. State Of Recruiting 2012
62.3% people said that there organisation is recovering from the economic difficulties and they would soon be hiring many new employees. 51.4% employers said that they are sure that the size of their organisation will grow in next year where as 35.4% people said that it will remain the same even next year.
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12. How To Optimize Recruitment For Mobile Workforces
Mobile devices and employee referral programs are helping employers to recruit more and more number of eligible candidates without investing too much cost or the time.
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13. Recruitment In France 2013
In France 82% people used job boards for recruiting their new employees and 68% recruitment happened through unsolicited job applications. 58% Recruitment process go through the French Employment agency. Work experience is the key asset while selecting a candidate and 66% employers select their employees based upon their experience.
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14. The Challenge To Hire The Right Candidate
56% employers are trying to increase their workforce by the year 2013. It is difficult for a company to stand out in the eyes of the employees, since almost 15% of vacancies are not receiving any application so far.
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15. IT And Telecoms Job Industry At A Glance
The size of UK’s telecom and IT industry is almost is 144,000. In UK the share of IT companies is almost 87% and share for the telecom companies is 13%. Almost 67% of job openings are senior professionals and managers.
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16. Digital MBA Recruitment
The recruiting devices like mobile and computers perform multiple tasks to assist in the entire process of recruitment. Multiple works done by these devices is sending emails, reading emails, updating resumes, sending notes after interview, forwarding the candidates, taking notes during the interview along with ragging, tagging and flagging candidates.
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17. The State Of Financial Recruitment
Financial recruitment process has been affected by the financial crisis every now and then during the ups and downs of the markets.
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18. Social Media And Recruitment In Russia
Russians are most avid social media junkies in the world and thus they are making use of social media for the recruitment process.
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19. The Bottleneck In Patient Recruitment
Patient recruitment has become a crucial step in the entire clinical trial process. Only 2% of the service providers take care of patient recruitment while selecting the service providers where as many of them are not able to understand the value of the entire recruitment process for the patients.
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20. How The Interview Process Has Changed
Recruitment and interview process are affected by the financial crisis and thus employer is conducting more number of interviews to assure the perfect recruitment.
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