Best website for placing job adverts
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Historically we have placed adverts in the job section of the local paper. The position are generally for electrican type roles based in the local area (Hampshire). Over the past years not only have the cost for adverts in the local paper increased but the response has also fallen making it no longer viable to continue using them.
We have used job websites to do some advertising as well. We used Fish 4 jobs which hasn't been too bad and monster.co.uk which was very poor.
What sites do you jobseekers tend to use? What are your favourites?
We have used job websites to do some advertising as well. We used Fish 4 jobs which hasn't been too bad and monster.co.uk which was very poor.
What sites do you jobseekers tend to use? What are your favourites?
Slightly different market but I tend to look at LinkedIn, Monster, Jobsite and TotalJobs
ETA, I don't know if it's the amount of jobs or the target audience, but my local paper tends to have 1, maybe 2 pages of local jobs. Everyone's stopped looking at them so the vicious circle of people not advertising them there kicks in. I don't know which came first though
ETA, I don't know if it's the amount of jobs or the target audience, but my local paper tends to have 1, maybe 2 pages of local jobs. Everyone's stopped looking at them so the vicious circle of people not advertising them there kicks in. I don't know which came first though
Edited by andy-xr on Monday 10th October 21:51
Ask a good recruitment firm.
We advertise jobs, and more often than not, we might as well not bother. It's only because my firm recruits for a wide selection of sales and management industries that it is even slightly worthwhile. That and the fact we get free adverts in order to have the right to have access to online CV databases.
A good recruitment firm will search for CV's online, will target your competitors, will do linkedIn searches (though for electricians this is less likely to be relevant/successful) etc. They will also advertise, but the reality is such an advert will yield probably 60 applications and only 1 CV that is good. The rest will be from DIY handimen, those with 1 year experience, have worked for 7 firms in the last 5 years, have been out of the industry for the last 3 years, are living 200 miles away and won't relocate, want double the salary you are offering, do not have an electronics qualfication/background or any combination of those.
For the 15% of salary that the recruitment firm will likely require for at that level of personnel and specialism, it's a no brainer in my mind. You'll get a lot better results (or should do) then simply advertising the post yourself. With a bit of luck the agency/consultancy will also first round interview the candidates so as not to send complete idiots, and will send you a shortlist of four thereby saving your time as well.
My suggestion is to offer the assigment to 3 firms, on a contingency basis (not retained where you pay up-front). This will yield a decent pool of potential employees.
If you don't get anywhere, drop me a line. My firm deals with sales and senior management usually, at a 30% fee, billing which is top 10% in the industry. We've just won an award at executive-search level, so we'd certainly be able to find a good electrician. That said, try other firms first as this isn't a tough assignment and a firm which deals with this area of recruitment may well already have candidates on their books ready to roll, which we won't. Thus they will be cheaper and quicker at producing candidates in this field as their search will be less involved (time consuming).
We advertise jobs, and more often than not, we might as well not bother. It's only because my firm recruits for a wide selection of sales and management industries that it is even slightly worthwhile. That and the fact we get free adverts in order to have the right to have access to online CV databases.
A good recruitment firm will search for CV's online, will target your competitors, will do linkedIn searches (though for electricians this is less likely to be relevant/successful) etc. They will also advertise, but the reality is such an advert will yield probably 60 applications and only 1 CV that is good. The rest will be from DIY handimen, those with 1 year experience, have worked for 7 firms in the last 5 years, have been out of the industry for the last 3 years, are living 200 miles away and won't relocate, want double the salary you are offering, do not have an electronics qualfication/background or any combination of those.
For the 15% of salary that the recruitment firm will likely require for at that level of personnel and specialism, it's a no brainer in my mind. You'll get a lot better results (or should do) then simply advertising the post yourself. With a bit of luck the agency/consultancy will also first round interview the candidates so as not to send complete idiots, and will send you a shortlist of four thereby saving your time as well.
My suggestion is to offer the assigment to 3 firms, on a contingency basis (not retained where you pay up-front). This will yield a decent pool of potential employees.
If you don't get anywhere, drop me a line. My firm deals with sales and senior management usually, at a 30% fee, billing which is top 10% in the industry. We've just won an award at executive-search level, so we'd certainly be able to find a good electrician. That said, try other firms first as this isn't a tough assignment and a firm which deals with this area of recruitment may well already have candidates on their books ready to roll, which we won't. Thus they will be cheaper and quicker at producing candidates in this field as their search will be less involved (time consuming).
I do a lot of hiring (hired 119 people so far this year). For these types of roles - TotalJobs, Jobsitem maybe even Monster would pull the right profiles.
I haven't found success in print for some time unless I'm advertising senior roles in national papers or senior specialist roles in trade magazines
I haven't found success in print for some time unless I'm advertising senior roles in national papers or senior specialist roles in trade magazines
andy-xr said:
Slightly different market but I tend to look at LinkedIn, Monster, Jobsite and TotalJobs
ETA, I don't know if it's the amount of jobs or the target audience, but my local paper tends to have 1, maybe 2 pages of local jobs. Everyone's stopped looking at them so the vicious circle of people not advertising them there kicks in. I don't know which came first though
I agree about the local papers. To make it worse the paper's response to less adverts is to put their prices up!ETA, I don't know if it's the amount of jobs or the target audience, but my local paper tends to have 1, maybe 2 pages of local jobs. Everyone's stopped looking at them so the vicious circle of people not advertising them there kicks in. I don't know which came first though
Edited by andy-xr on Monday 10th October 21:51
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