A recent article titled “LinkedIn, Twitter, Facebook: How CIOs are hiring and engaging with staff" posted on http://www.silicon.com/ has promoted me to write this post.
There are so many mediums out there weather it be Social Media or online job boards it is no wonder employers are building in house recruitment teams or CIO’s, CTO’s and Development Managers are looking to ditch the recruiter and hire direct through the likes of LinkedIn, Twitter and Facebook or one of the online job boards, so we thought we would put together a guide to help employers hire direct.
What are the options and what is the cost?
Monster
Monsters entry level offering at £299 + VAT includes one 30 day job posting and 30 days access to its online CV database search, which sounds like good value. However, you are limited to 25 views of the CV database.
More information can be found following Monster Recruitment Packages link.
Jobsite
Jobsite offers a two week job posting for £99 + VAT and a 2 week CV database search for a staggering £600 + VAT.
For more information http://www.jobsite.co.uk/cgi-bin/ovp_products.cgi?partner=hplink
Jobserve
A one week job post will cost £110 + VAT and there are other offerings available such as £5 + VAT for a CV download from their online database, find out more here: www.jobserve.com/recruiterlanding.aspx
CWJobs
To post your vacancy for one week with CWJobs will set you back £195 + VAT. CWJobs also offer other packages such as CV database search, information can be found at: https://recruiter.cwjobs.co.uk/Recruitment/SelfService/JobPostIntro.aspx
Totaljobs
Advertise your role for one week for just £99 + VAT, http://recruiter.totaljobs.com/
LinkedIn
The recruitment game changer will let you advertise on the site for a 30 day period for just $195.00. LinkedIn also offer a variety of recruitment packages for your in house recruitment team
Stack Overflow
Stack Careers offers a 30 day posting and will set you back $350. Stack Overflow Careers also offer a CV database search, which you can test drive for free, but will set you back $500 for a 1 week subscription to view the results of your search.
github:jobs
If you have an open source position to fill posting on GitHub rather than StackCareers will save you $50 for a 30 day posting https://jobs.github.com/post#create
Coderstack
For those of you who hate recruiters a job board that is run by developers for developers. There are no third party recruiters, just companies looking to hire directly. Technologies advertised include ASP, C#, C, C++, Flash, JavaScript, Java, Objective-C, Perl, PHP, Python, Ruby.
Coderstack offer a variety of advertising solutions starting at £50 up to £500 for a 30 day posting, these postings get advertised through their Twitter feed but with @cs_jobs having 53 followers and @coderstack having 64 followers I am not sure how much exposure you roles will receive. Any way there is more information at: www.coderstack.co.uk/advertise-developer-job
Superscout
Superscout is a recruitment and career networking community inspired by social network innovations. The site allows companies to create an in-depth company profile, post job advertisements and interact with candidates for free! More information about Superscout
Authentic Jobs
Authentic Jobs has been helping some of the biggest brands recruit since 2005, big player names such as Apple, Skpe and Facebook. A 30 day posting for a full time permanent position costs $249 with 100% money back guarantee if you are not satisfied
Empty Lemon
EmptyLemon is an IT job board purly for direct employers with no 3rd parties or recruitment agencies. They offer a 100% free trial of their service, alough there is no indication of the cost of advertising once you sign up. Empty Lemon is an anagram of recruitment and are also playing on the fact that nobody likes recruiters!
Empty Lemon’s Twitter feed @EmptyLemon currently has 1,263 followers from which they tweet your IT related vacancies.
Work In Startups
If you are a start up and want to get your vacancy advertised for free, this may be for you! This site is for technical and functional roles, contract, permanent or even if you are looking for an intern.
Work in startups Twitter feed is @workinstartups and has 363 followers
Social Media
We are not social media guru’s but understand how a successful social media strategy and help companies attract staff and greatly reduce their cost per hire while eliminating the need for recruiters who are only employing the mediums mentioned above. Companies looking to hire directly should certainly create a company page on LinkedIn, a Facebook page and have a Twitter account where they can interact with potential hires as well as promote jobs and enable potential hires to gain an understanding of your brand and working environment.
Social media is about being social and interacting, just posting endless positions on a Twitter feed isn’t going to deliver the high calibre candidates you are looking for.
Are We Mad?
Why is an IT Recruitment company writing a guide to help companies hire direct?
All the things we have mentioned so far anybody can do, so we wouldn’t expect you to pay us thousands of pounds to use these channels to hire the high quality, passive candidates most organisations desire. We want you to cut you cost per hire for the easy to fill roles, which can be filled via online job advertisements or by searching LinkedIn and online CV databases.
We want clients to come to us when they have utilised their normal talent acquisition channels such as Monster, Jobsite, Twitter and LinkedIn when they know they have a niche, in demand or hard to find skill set, because our service is then appreciated as we can add true value to the recruitment process.
What Do We Do Different?
Since the dawn of the online job board recruitment has become too sales focused as candidates were in abundance applying for job averts and posting their CV’s to online databases. Recruiters gained sales skills but lost their ability to source hard to find skill sets and deliver on their promises!
We noticed this shift away from online job advertisements and CV databases and proactively looked for alternative methods of sourcing and delivering high calibre hires for our clients.
We implement a variety of sourcing techniques to deliver the candidates that aren’t found applying for online job postings or uploading their CV to internet. We use:
• Human capital Data Analysis (Information on Human Capital Data Analysis)
• Agile, Lean, Just-In-Time recruitment
• Boolean Queries
• Semantic Search for recruiting Wikipedia Semantic Search
If you have utilised all your existing recruitment channels and wish to have an open discussion about how we can help you source the niche, in demand and hard to find skills you need call us on 0845 496 0000 or email us to arrange a call from one of our skilled consultants.
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