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It’s THE time to attract THE best talent.
Posted by Ben Muir on 13 Feb 2009 | Tagged as: Direct recruitment strategies, Employer Branding, Facts & Figures, HR Strategy, Uncategorized
Doom, gloom, credit crunching & redundancies. Yes it’s not pretty however for employers looking to reduce recruitment costs and attract the best talent quickly and easily, there’s never been a better time. Not only is it an employer’s market, but there’s actually been an explosion of great talent entering the job market.
The CIPD’s latest official unemployment figures show that some 146,000 more people joined the dole queue in the final 1/4 of 2008 bringing the total number of people out of work to 1.97 million. There is a LOT of GREAT talent out there! For instance, The Royal Bank of Scotland is making up to 2,300 cuts. UBS are cutting 2,000 jobs & General Motors are to make 10,000 redundancies globally. This is just to name a few.
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Online job search market statistics
Posted by Brett Pringle on 12 Feb 2009 | Tagged as: Facts & Figures
In January Comscore released a report on the fastest growing online category for search within the US, Job Search. With the current global economy and large job losses, people are turning to the internet for possible new career opportunities. An increase of over 51% was seen compared to the previous year, with a total of 18.8 million visits to top jobsites within the US.