Article produced by Sara Dowsett for and published by Logistics Manager Sept 2010
Recruitment Outsourcing Growing In Importance!
Outsourcing in the UK was originally seen as a way of reducing costs and passing clerical and low level customer contact tasks to another company and often another country. The next big trend was IT outsourcing with major businesses reducing risk, enhancing their access to technical skills and putting a difficult area of cost and project management into the hands of specialists who could genuinely add value to the decision making processes.
Now many aspects of Human Resources work are also being outsourced. The trend in Human Resources outsourcing is now beginning to follow the IT model where it is important to be able to access the latest methods and in depth technical expertise and outsource that to a specialist company. Overstretched or downsized HR departments are increasingly suffering from a lack of expertise in areas such as ad writing, candidate attraction, employee brand promotion and all the subsequent elements of the recruitment process. This has also been made more difficult because as new figures have revealed, on average there are 100 plus job seekers for every job advertised in the UK.
As with the IT world, business and resourcing processes are changing at such a fast pace that only a professional recruitment company with critical mass that can focused solely on recruitment can keep at the forefront of innovation and ensure that your company sees the very best applicants. Technological advances are making it far more difficult for an internal HR team with many other priorities to win the battle for talent.
It is said that 60% of roles are filled by some type of networking, today this includes linked in.com and other social networking sites where professional recruiters access possible candidates and reference them before any formal approach is made. These are, however the “tip of the iceberg” with headhunting, referrals and database management remaining the most successful amongst a host of candidate sourcing methodologies. How to communicate vacancies in a way that attracts candidates is a science in itself. The more specialised the role the more difficult it is to ensure that the right people see it and are motivated to apply. The secret is not to get 2000 responses but to get 5 best at the very top end of performance to apply.
This is why recruitment outsourcing is becoming so essential for dynamic businesses. Contact the BJD Group to discuss your recruitment outsourcing requirements.
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