Or maybe, just maybe, song and dance aside, you do! Especially if your current HR department still deals predominanty in paper CVs and jetsets around the country and the world looking for fresh talent more frequently than the company cafeteria bakes branded welcome puddings for new joiners. Does that sound familiar?
You were at three career fairs locally last week and then managed to land in 3 European cities before the week was over searching for that single ''right'' candidate you think you need to physically traverse cities, continents and countless career fairs to find? And you're still just sourcing . . . you haven't even begun the process of screening and shortlisting!
Perhaps all you need is a fresh face with a deft hand at the computer keyboard to nimbly start transitioning you to a more efficient, streamlined and effective modern workplace that is never out of touch with the very best top talent in today's marketplace. I will not spend too much time talking about the merits of online recruitment because the proof is in the aforementioned puddings - the vast majority of regional employers today recognize the importance of leading pan-regional jobsites such as www.bayt.com and the vast majority of today's regional jobseeker professionals already have some form of presence and online profile on the leading jobsites.
In fact in a MENA HR poll bayt.com ran recently (“Recruitment Methods in the MENA 2010/ 2011”) we discovered that 34.5% of MENA professionals say online job sites are the most effective method of recruitment, exceeding in effectiveness recruitment agencies, newspaper ads, career fairs, college alumni clubs, corporate website ads and even word of mouth. Moreover 24% of respondents said that more than 50% of their friends and family already have a resume on an online jobsite and another 20% said between 20% and 50% of their friends and families already had CVs on an online jobsite.
The largest group of respondents polled indicated they frequented online jobsites for all of the following reasons:- because they are the fastest, easiest and most effective way to land a job; because almost all top employers recruit through these jobsites; because they are mostly completely FREE to jobseekers; because they allow jobseekers to access top jobs outside of their country and because they are rich in facts and information in careers.
A great finding was that although over 84% of professionals polled on bayt.com indicated they were ''active'' jobseekers and wanted a new job immediately, as many as 13.5% indicated they had an online presence as ''passive'' jobseekers and they simply ''wanted to know whats out there just in case''. More proof that jobsites are the primary and most critical window to the region's top career opportunities and an open window that today's regional professionals largely agree they cannot afford to keep closed.
Additional good news the poll revealed was that 51.2 % of Middle East professionals did not have any issues with having their resume on a jobsite as they are aware it allows them the most access to employers. 39.3% admitted their company recruited using a leading job site, indicating the great penetration online recruitment currently enjoys in the region and its wide popularity with the MENA’s employers; and in an astounding nod to the success of online recruitment in the region, more than 10% of respondents said they themselves knew more than 5 people who had found their jobs online including 7.2% of professionals who knew more than 10 people who had found their jobs online.
But sourcing top candidates in the most expedient, encompassing, easy, efficient and cost-effective manner is only one advantage of a leading online jobsite, albeit a major one. There are other key benefits you can reap online as an employer using a leading jobsite.
For example, on bayt.com, the Middle East's #1 jobsite you can download psychometric tests for your jobseekers, read useful articles and guides on recruitment, visit a dynamic HR blog with useful tips, and study state-of-the-art current MENA HR research including research on salaries, jobs, consumer confidence, and employee satisfaction and motivation. You can also access the Bayt.com Salaries tool to assess salaries in your industry at every career level for every job role and arrange to participate in the next Bayt.com Virtual Job Fair in your target industry or territory.
You can even ask for the tools and technologies that make bayt.com the Middle East's #1 jobsite and one of the leading technological recruitment platforms on a global scale, to be transferred to your own website in the form of a Branded Career Channel (BCC) that you yourself own and operate and brand and customize for your own ongoing recruitment needs. And it's all so easy!
Perhaps you don't need a new HRO after all. These tools are the simplest and most logical and coherent tools in the industry and there is no reason every member of your team can't simply log on today, press on the ''trial run'' button and hold on for the most exciting journey in their recruitment careers! No IT expertise required! This may well make these overseas recruitment journeys you periodically chose to take look dull, old-fashioned and homely in comparison. See you on the test run track! Better still, salute you at the recruitment victory line!
