New Zealand is a long way behind the rest of the world in terms
of recruitment methods and technology.
There has however been a noticeable move away from traditional
recruiting towards moving the process in-house as a result of the
recession. But this has put extreme pressure on the internal
human resources teams that have been charged to take over this
recruitment process - usually without extra staff.
These are the types of clients that I generally visit.
I am continually surprised by the number of large corporates
that do not have an applicant tracking system to take away so much
of the administration time in managing the recruitment
process. I can understand that there is usually an associated
capital expenditure freeze that goes along with this type of top
down cost saving directive but there are options:
A recent proposal that we made to a large corporate saw them
saving over $100,000 per year in time savings just through using
our applicant tracking system.
Options in low cost recruitment services include
QJumpers services but there are
others around. I am surprised at how few there are in New
Zealand because this is what the market is screaming for.
Take a read of this article by
Mark Jones that I found on recruitersite.co.uk to see what is
happenning in the UK. I find that New Zealand is generally
about three years behind the UK in terms of recruitment trends and
probably 5 years behind the US.
So don't think that there isn't any way you can afford to do
anything about your recruitment processes. Start
looking. You will be surprised at what you find.