We surveyed our clients to find out what they thought was the best way to attract talent. Rather unsurprisingly the Internet was the top option and, more specifically, generalist job boards took top spot with 53% of the vote.
Right behind the generic boards were niche boards.
A lot of recruiters still cited their own database as the primary source of candidates. That always amuses me – how did they get there in the first place? I doubt it was any kind of recruitment magic, perhaps they came from... the Internet?!
What that shows me is that job boards are still coming up trumps but that recruiters are still not tracking their candidate source effectively enough. A database is merely a place where data that has its own independent source is kept. Even if it was a referral or headhunt, the candidate was sourced through a certain method before being stored on a database.
Something to think about.
Read the full story here http://www.broadbean.com/issues/news/232-11/job-boards-still-the-top-choice-for-recruiters.html
That's all from me for a while, I'm off to Ibiza!
Dan, I hope you enjoyed Ibiza!
Just a thought - not all candidates arrive at recruitment consultancies through the internet. In our experience (FreshMinds Talent - www.freshminds.co.uk/talent) by far and a way the most popular source of candidates in personal referral from successfully placed candidates, former employees and friends.
In fact, our Work 2.0 research (a survey of over 1,000 people followed by focus groups) suggests that only 10% of Gen Y’s found their current job through a job search website, and this is more than double the other generations, Gen X (4%), and Baby Boomers (3%).
We're also talking about some of these issues on our blog. I love the content you're coming up with Dan, so take a look and see what you think!
http://blogs.freshminds.co.uk/talent
Posted by: Charlie Boss | August 20, 2008 at 01:50 AM