Methods of recruitment
National Press & Trade Press
National and Trade press is a term for a publication method which is done through trade magazines, trade journals or even trade papers. As a result, their primary target audience would work in a certain industry where newspapers would be more easily accessible. They usually include an advertisement on their article which would focus around the print-based media industry better known as a niche audience.
Pros
- It Targets a More Experienced Audience
- It’s an Effective Method to Hire Locally
- Newspaper Ads Offer Greater Flexibility
Cons
- Fewer People Are Reading Newspapers
- The Publishing Process Can Be Slow
Moreover, once your ad is finally published, there’s no way of correcting any mistakes (like a wrong phone number of email address, for example). You’ll have to wait until the next issue to make any urgent modifications or corrections, unlike online ads which you can edit at any time, and this means potentially missing out on top talent.
- It Limits the Scope of Applicants
This means that you could potentially miss out on hiring a better skilled and qualified IT manager who lives somewhere else in the country and is willing to relocate for the job. Worse still, you might not even fill the position, full stop.And while you could post an ad in several newspapers in neighbouring counties, it would cost a fortune. Advertising online, on the other hand, can save your company money in the long-run while it can also elicit responses from all over the country – and even abroad.
- You Can Only Say So Much in an Ad
Internet
Ever since the development of the internet, this has become one of the most powerful advertising and distributing tools available as it can lead you to getting more exposure. This is because the web can connect you even with people all the way from China who may be moving to your region and might be suitable for this job role. This just gives a higher opportunity to get noticed by potential employees or employers to hire you.
Pros
- Wide Audience Reach
- Cost-Effective
- Time-Saving
- Application Process Automation
Cons
- Extremely Diverse Audience
- System Issues
- Less Behavioral Assessment
Personal Contacts
Pros
- Using a recruitment agency will shorten the time needed to fill your open job positions. You won’t have to spend time attracting candidates and going through tons of profiles and applications to find a few qualified ones. A recruitment agency will do all that and deliver only a few top candidates for your consideration. Also, a recruitment agency can usually find candidates much faster than you can. This is because recruitment agencies already have a vast talent network. When using a recruitment agency, you can tap into its large talent pool of already vetted candidates. This will significantly shorten your time to hire!
- Using a recruitment agency will improve the quality of candidates in your recruitment process. As we already mentioned, recruitment agencies have large talent pool with already pre-screened and pre-referenced candidates. It means that you will only deal with candidates who are carefully assessed and vetted. Besides, recruitment agencies are experts in candidate selection. Agency recruiters are professionally trained to assess candidates. They use the best practice methods to differentiate real experts from good interviewees. They also have a vast experience you can benefit from.
- Using a recruitment agency will allow you to tap into a specialist knowledge your in-house recruiters might not possess. An in-house recruiter usually has to cover a wide range of different roles a company needs. On the other hand, most recruitment agencies are specialized in recruiting for a certain industry, role or level. It means that they have better knowledge and deeper understanding of their targeted job market segments. As a result, recruitment agencies can provide you with valuable insight and useful advice that can help you find and hire better candidates.
Cons
- Using a recruitment agency can be a quite expensive endeavor. In general, recruitment agencies’ fees are around 20 to 30% of the employee’s annual salary. The cost of using a recruitment agency can get even higher if you’re looking to make a hire for a hard to fill role. Either way, when using a recruitment agency, you will have to pay a fixed fee every time you want to make a hire. On the other hand, if you’re handling your recruitment process in-house, you can experiment and test your recruitment methods and channels. That way, you can stop wasting money on recruitment methods and channels which don't work for you and invest it into those that yield the highest return on investment. You can also invest your money in building your talent pool for your future hiring needs, thus saving money in the long run.
- Recruitment agencies can’t ensure the cultural fit of their suggested candidates. Recruitment agencies can deliver the candidates that are the best fit for a certain position and role. However, they are much weaker at assessing a cultural fit. In other words, recruitment agencies can help you choose the best candidate for your open position, but not for your company culture and your team. Best recruitment agencies will go out of their way to become familiar with your company goals, mission, vision and values. However, agency recruiters will never have the same understanding and experience of your company culture as your employees who live and breathe in it every day.
- If you use recruitment agencies, you miss an opportunity to build your company’s employer branding strategy - and own it. Every step of recruiting process is an opportunity to formulate, present and promote your reputation as an employer of choice. However, if you put your recruiting efforts in a hands of a recruitment agency, you won’t have a full control of your employer brand. Someone else will be presenting and selling your employer brand to your potential candidates. Your potential candidates will create their first impression of your company based on secondhand information - not a direct contact with your company.
Internal Promotion
Pros
- Current employees already know the rules, regulations and culture of the organisation.
- Employees have understanding of how the organisation operates and do not need an induction programme.
- The organisation knows employees and have detailed records from previous supervisors
- Offering opportunities to internal employees may boost the morale of the staff members.
- Allowing employees to move vertically and horizontally within the organisation could reduce the possibility of her looking for another job.
- A positive image is created in the organisation
Cons
- No new or fresh ideas are brought into the organisation
- The job advertised may require skills not currently available within the organisation
- Promotion of an internal employee could cause resentment amongst other employees, who may feel they deserve the post more than the promoted employee.
- The number of applicants from which to choose may be too high or limited.
- It is possible to promote less qualified employees than those from outside of the organisation, in order to comply with the internal recruitment policy or the Employment Equity Act.
- Most internal applicants have been stagnant in their posts for so long and will not positively contribute any new ideas.
- Harden negative attitudes of internal employees cannot be changed by promotion.
- Lazy employees cannot suddenly change into ‘star’ employees because they have been promoted.
- Contagious negative habits and behaviour by one negative employee can easily be passed on to other divisions.
Networking
Pros
- Build long term trusting relationships. Networking is a slow burner. Don’t expect to walk into a room, hand out your business cards and then sit back in the office and wait for your phone to ring. Trusted relationships take months to build.
- People buy from people they like. If you have a personality that people can identify with, then they are more inclined to buy from you.
- Sociable and fun. From informal drinks to corporate fun days, networking can also be fun and not just “shop talk”.
- Connect other people, not just yourself. Good networkers don’t just look out for leads for themselves, they help other people connect with each other too. It has a benefit to you too. If you are known to be helpful and create business for others, more people will want to be connected to you too!
Cons
- Expensive – it can be pricey, especially if you have to pay membership fees, although these will hopefully be outweighed by leads brought in
- Unsociable hours – breakfast meetings and young families are not always conducive (in my experience!). Also, I’ll be honest, I’m not firing on all cylinders at 6am.
- May fill introverts with feels of dread! If you are shy then you may well hate networking.
- Joining the wrong groups – test the groups out to see if you like them and if the “right” sort of people are members. It’s better to work a few networking groups hard than be a member of many and very rarely turn up.
Trade Fairs
Pros
- Gain Brand Awareness
- Networking Opportunities
- Get a Feel for the Competition
- Sales Opportunities
Don’t forget, however, that having your own stand costs money, and you need to generate a certain number of sales before you break even on what it costs you. Once you rent a stand and pay for other exhibition services, factor in travel and accommodation costs, and other incidentals, you can be looking at an outlay of several thousand pounds at the larger events.
Cons
- Results aren't Guaranteed
skills & qualificaTIONS
- Education & Training (etc full time, part time, Level 2, Level 3, Graduate)
Full Time - If you are a full time student, this means that you put all of your focus towards your training or studying. An advantage associated with type of studying would be how quick you complete your course. The quicker you complete this course, the quicker you can get a professional job role within the industry.
Part Time - If you are a part-time student, this means that you only put half of your time learning unlike full time. This means that you have a more flexible schedule and you have to opportunity to work at the same time as study.
- Personal Skills
- knowledge of English language
- knowledge of media production and communication
- the ability to read English
- excellent verbal communication skills
- to be thorough and pay attention to detail
- excellent written communication skills
- the ability to work well with others
- to be flexible and open to change
- to be able to use a computer and the main software packages competently
- Technology Skills
- Training needs
- Make a decision on which skill set to learn.
- Analyse which skills need improvement in order to fill up any gaps in your knowledge/skills.
- Create a personal development plan which assists in working on your weak areas.
- Personal development Plan - A personal development main goal is for you to establish specific long term objectives which you should complete at a specific time. In this case, I would advice that you aim at covering the following:
- Assess current realities.
- Establish specific goals to complete (preferably realistic ones).
- Select appropriate activities which would assist you with completing these goals.
- Sector skills Council - The SSC is an employee led organisation which covers specific industries such as the print based media industry within the UK. Their goal is to develop an understanding of the skill set in the industry for the future such as improving their apprenticeships, developing and designing them.
- Trade unions - According to the wikipedia, A trade union is an association of workers forming a legal unit or legal personhood, usually called a "bargaining unit", which acts as a bargaining agent and legal representative for a unit of employees in all matters of law or right arising from or in the administration of a collective agreement.
tRANSFERABLE sKILLS
- Personal attributes
- Commitment - You can be more committed to your job by having the following traits:
- Effective duty
Emotional responsibility identifies with how much representatives need to remain at their association. On the off chance that a representative is effectively dedicated to their association, it implies that they need to remain at their association. They regularly relate to the authoritative objectives, feel that they fit into the association and are happy with their work. Workers who are effectively dedicated feel esteemed, go about as diplomats for their association and are commonly extraordinary resources for associations. - Normative responsibility
Standardizing responsibility identifies with how much representatives feel they should remain at their association. Workers that are normatively dedicated by and large feel that they should remain at their associations. Normatively dedicated representatives feel that leaving their association would have deplorable results, and feel a feeling of blame about the plausibility of leaving. - Continuance duty
Duration duty identifies with how much representatives want to remain at their association. In representatives that are continuation dedicated, the basic purpose behind their responsibility lies in their need to remain with the association. Potential purposes behind expecting to remain with associations differ, however the primary reasons identify with an absence of work options, and compensation.
- Effective duty
- Efficient - Efficiency is an important skill to have as it means you can complete tasks correctly and quickly with excellent formation. The reason this is important is because the more efficient you are, the more better you are when it comes to being able to maximize your use in production and have a correct outcome without it looking/seeming rushed.
- Reliable - According to the definition from the Oxford dictionary, reliability is “the quality of being trustworthy or of performing consistently well.” Reliability is therefore a very important quality needed by employers as it increases both the employees and employers trust on you as they feel like they can count on you.
- Punctual - Punctuality is a sign of professionalism and helps you stand out as a reliable and trustworthy employee. If you don't get your part of a project completed on time, you keep others from being able to finish their tasks. Being punctual helps you establish your reputation as a dependable and consistent worker.
pRESENTATION FOR EMPLOYMENT
- Portfolio - It will be very useful for you to come with a portfolio filled with a collection of work you have already completed relating to print-based media. A portfolio itself had two main purposes; to showcase top quality of your work and also the knowledge you already acquired/learnt along the process.
- Personal Website - A portfolio is an accumulation of past work which you have done, which is identified with your picked subject (for this situation print based media). A portfolio has two fundamental purposes, the first being to feature the best instances of your work to any potential bosses. It additionally goes about as a grandstand for aptitudes and information you that you have learnt or obtained. The second utilization of a portfolio is for self employed entities to give out to potential customers, so as to give work tests.
- Curriculum Vitae (CV) - A curriculum vitae is used mainly when applying to most jobs as it provides employers with the first impression they should have of you. According to the definition from the Oxford dictionary, “a brief account of a person's education, qualifications, and previous occupations, typically sent with a job application.”
- Letters of application - A letter of use is otherwise called an introductory letter, and is an archive which is sent close by your CV. Its motivation is to give additional subtleties or extra data to your managers. Such data may incorporate why and how you are equipped for this activity.
- References - Sometimes, you may need a short written statement from your previous employee which outlines all types of character traits, skills and attributes as a way for future employers to answer any questions they may be seeking to know through another point of view.
- Interviewing Skills - In order to be hired, you may sometimes have to go through the process of an interview in order to see why you are interested in this job role and how much you know of this company. Here are 3 YouTube links available which may assist you when getting this job role.
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cAREER DEVELOPMENT
- Training on the job
- Self training
- Continuing Personal development
This may be a requirement of membership which comes forma professional body. This may assist you in the way you reflect, review and document your learning. This is very useful as it updates your professional skills and knowledge as well as:
- providing an overview of your professional development to date
- reminding you of your achievements and how far you've progressed
- directing your career and helps you keep your eye on your goals
- uncovering gaps in your skills and capabilities
- opening up further development needs
- providing examples and scenarios for a CV or interview
- demonstrating your professional standing to clients and employers
- helping you with your career development or a possible career change.
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https://www.effectory.com/knowledge/themes/what-is-employee-commitment/
https://www.talentlyft.com/en/blog/article/230/pros-and-cons-of-using-recruitment-agencies
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