Recruiting Briefs

Best Practices for Web Site Recruitment

Quebec City — A study of Fortune 500 Web site recruiting, by Recruitsoft/iLogos, has produced a list of 20 best features for corporate sites:

•Link to careers section from the homepage

•About the company: benefits

•About the company: culture

•A college recruiting section

•Job search by job category

•Job search by location

•Job search by keyword

•Urgent need jobs highlighted

•Complete job description

•One click to apply

•Pre-assessment tool customized for each position

•Choice of cut-and-paste form or resume builder

•Attachment of formatted resume

•Application automatically connected to a job

•Anonymous application

•E-mail to a friend

•Job agent

•Profiling

•Reuse of candidate information for multiple applications

•Online user feedback.

Referred Employees Stick Around Longer

San Jose, Calif. — A new study has found employees hired through a referral will stay with the company longer, feel like they are part of the team sooner and get up to speed quicker than employees hired by other methods. There is a degree of filtering that happens with referrals, said Byron Webster, co-founder of Angami Systems, the firm that sponsored the study. Thirty-six per cent of employees hired through a referral were employed for three or more years.

Skyrocketing Demand for Execs

New York — Fueled by a hot economy and an explosion in the growth of high-tech companies, demand for senior executives around the world in the second quarter of 2000 was 25 per cent higher than in 1999. Latin America recorded the largest hiring increase at 44 per cent. Asia went up 31 per cent; North America increased by 29 per cent; and Europe 12 per cent.