Recruitment Advice

When putting my recruitment plan together for 2009 i was asked to reduce the costs by 50% but to increase the amount of staff required by 60% based on 2008.

With this difficult task in mind and researching various free methods of recruitment, it made me think how much organising it was going to take to keep on top of all the C.V’s and replying, interviewing and selecting these candidates.

We do not have any recruitment software packages to organise the amount of recruitment we plan on doing in 2009 or the budget to purchase one. Free methods of recruitment often mean a high response to any advertisement placed, which in turn you have to spend a lot of time searching through the all the C.V’s you receive.

The manageability of the whole process can be a pain, we have previously relied on recruitment consultants to do all the administration and store any C.V information.

We currently have no back up system in place for storing the C.V’s and it the event that our computer systems were to fail then we would have to start the process again, which can be costly and time consuming. Services such as online backup will aid against any data loss, this will help to comply with any data protection rules and can form part of the companies disaster recovery plan.