Recruiting on the Web at Tag44.com

The web can vastly expand an organization’s ability to search for talent and present itself as an employer tag44. The web has enabled us to put more company information and job information in the hands of job seekers. Just has job seekers want to present themselves in a favorable way towards employers, so do the companies tag44.com

Is the web being used effectively for recruiting and staffing by employers? Employers are complaining that the web has dramatically increased applicant pools with the misconception that the entire nation is the relevant labor market tag44, which it is not. Bigger is not always better, and many authors pride themselves on telling employers to post jobs in more than one job board like tag44.com and to process thousands of applicants. The key to effective recruiting is to use the Internet as the enabling technology as it is. Not to rely on it.

Are you tired of receiving thousands of resumes for a single open position? The answer is NOT to post jobs online. I’ll use an example of how I recruit for employees. If I have an opening for an account executive position, and I am located in Miami,FL I place a “print only” ad in the local newspaper with a link to my company web site www.tag44.com for three days. The applicants would visit my company web site for information about the job and to apply online. No resumes are accepted! Only application forms! Application is stored in my database and I am notified of the new applications by e-mail. Similar to the way an e-commerce site is notified that an order has been placed. This way I am able to keep my total number applicants to 20 or 30 for an open position tag44. That is more manageable than 1,000 that the 120,000 companies doing online recruiting are receiving.

There is a misconception that companies need to post their jobs online on as many job boards as possible. That is not what the Internet is supposed to do. The Internet is an enabling technology to help companies streamline administrative processes tag44. Companies need to focus on their “relevant labor market.” The relevant labor market is the area that you are “physically” doing business in. For example, if you are located in Fort Lauderdale, your relevant labor market is Broward County. Not everyone in Broward County is qualified to be a sales person, and not every sales person is qualified to be an outside sales person tag44.com Therefore, the ad that is placed in the local newspaper is designed with a realistic job preview of what the job entails with a link to the company web site for a complete job description and online application. This process is what I termed “web enhanced recruiting.” Recruiting is impacted by the Internet at www.tag44.com but is not solely relied upon as is the case with most companies today.