Bad pack!
By always posting your offers in the same newspaper or on the same website, you will always end up with the same pool of candidates. To not use various sources, is to ignore the variety of candidates.
Even if more and more companies are beginning to question the validity of these long-term commitments to a single provider in favour of a more qualitative approach, we must observe that many companies get trapped into buying ‘unfinishable’ packs. It’s hard to resist when the savings to be made from the ‘big’ pack shine before your eyes.
The pack generally has an undesirable tendency to force you to post job offers in a given amount of time, beyond which, you lose your postings. Like a pint of milk, there is a dead-line (best before) on the posting packs offered to you. Why? As with the pint of milk, beyond a certain amount of time, a pack appears to lose its freshness. So what can be done when there is only a month left to use your credit and you have no job opportunities on the horizon? Goodbye savings…
Online recruitment is a field which is evolving so rapidly that it is not reasonable to commit yourself too much to what could soon be old news. Also quite rare are companies with a precise view of recruitment beyond a certain horizon.
The pack from a soul provider comes down to deciding which job site works for your company, with no thought for the jobs you have to fill…Granted, it is simpler, it avoids the question of what is the most appropriate way of reaching the best pool of candidates. We must note that faced with the multitude of methods available for publishing a job offer, it’s easy to get confused. The site www.emplorium.com alone has 375 websites proposing job offers in Quebec. Three hundred and seventy-five! Not easy to keep up to date…Worse still, it’s not enough simply to identify them but to know them or have them recommended, as quality, ethics and consistency are not always on the cards…
Of course, the ‘one-size-fits-all’ side of a generalist site or of a weekend newspaper requires less effort. Learning to know, to use and to familiarize yourself with the variety of sources available is a tough job which can take some time…Some of you have already understood that it’s better not waiting to develop this expertise…Freedom (of choice) has no price!
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