Blog 11 : Recruitment

 Recruitment is the process of identifying and hiring the best qualified candidate in the most cost effective way. Once a company finds the ideal match betwenn job and employee, it is known as a successful recruitment. Therefore, successful recruiting is related to the growth of a company because at each level of a company department it must have all its employees. Recruitment "includes those practices ad activates carried outby the organisation with the primary purpose of identifying and attracting potential employees"(Torrington et al.,2011, p.158). There are over a million people who are recruited by an employer in the UK each year, so the process is clearly a very well-practiced one.

The website www.fish4jobs.co.uk is using e-recruitment which involves interesting operations by combining many ways traditionnaly performed not by only advertise vacancies, but they are also willing to undertake some shortlisting on behalf of employers, sending on a selection of the CVs that have been submitted by job-seekers. (Taylor,2002)
The website www.fish4jobs.co.uk is a recrutiment webiste where people can search for jobs and apply for vacancies and companies can post informations on their very interactive, fun to visit and very speedy, offering all manner of services to job-seekers. The website is easy to navigate on and there is also a slideshow that shows weekly features jobs with the possibility of browsing easily any vacancies on the website as the button "browse" is almost in the middle which gives us a great idea of what we want to find and search.Furthermore, the recruiting website is making it easier to use it by adding a website app on the first page which means it can be accessed anywhere in the country. Another thing within the site which makes it stand out over others is the ability search for work experience, and to be able to contact organisations. This allows students to know the requirements that organisations have for when they come to the stage of graduation, and by gaining work experience before they graduate, increase their ability to be employed, as experience in their chosen fields is as important as the education standard. Furthermore, the option of having a username and password allows the user to customise their service to receive alerts when new opportunities become available in the sector they are looking at, and so making the information received more important.

E-recruitment is the process of using electronic devices to recruit employees via internet. The freefashion intership recruiting website caught my interest because it is laid out like an online magazine but without the slideshows and flashing advertisements.


Overall to conclude, it is clear that there are many benefits to having the developed use of technology in order to enhance the recruitment process. However, on the other hand, some tests can give a poor judge of character, indeed, the judgement will not make a clear image of the person applying making the process harder and allowing the employer to miss out on potential employees. In order to not do that , it is important that technology and human contact are used between the recruiter and the job-seeker in order to achieve results for both sides.



References :

Torrington, D., Hall, L., Taylor, S. and Atkinson, C. (2011) Human Resource Management. 8th ed. Harlow: Pearsons Education Limited.

Taylor, S .(2002) People Resourcing. 2nd ed. Wiltshire : Cromewell Press

Recruiting Websites [online]. Available from : http://ww.fish4.co.uk/ [Accessed 8/05/12]