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The Recruitment Process to Fill your Southampton Job

Top quality employees can prove to be tricky to recruit but you can't run a business without them! Filling your Southampton jobs with good staff may well be able to transform a unsuccessful business into strong and healthy organisation. AllSouthamptonJobs is pleased to offer you some advice to get you through the recruitment process so you can find the perfect person for your Southampton jobs.

It can seem like these miracle workers are mythical and essentially impossible to locate. The much commented on ‘skills gap’ can make finding the right employees for your Southampton jobs difficult for so how do you go about it?


Why is the process of recruitment so important?


The recruitment process is crucial as if you do get it right you reduce the risk of employing the not ideal person for your Southampton jobs. Get it wrong, and you will probably discover that you do not even receive applications from suitable candidates, much less spot them during the selection process. This all means you’ve wasted good money on a defective recruitment process.


An overall organisational strategy for resourcing and recruiting workers


Recruitment should not only be considered as a process to fill your present Southampton jobs needs but should be regarded as a part of an overall business strategy for resourcing and recruiting staff for your Southampton jobs. Once you have filled one of your Southampton jobs, you should have a number of applicants who you would consider for the same or similar Southampton jobs in the future. This could make the process much simpler and cost effective the next time around.


Recruitment is not only about filling your Southampton jobs


Recruitment is not just about filling your Southampton jobs. The process exposes your company to the public. Think of applicants as potential clients so if a candidate has had an unfavourable experience with your organisation, then you can guarantee that they are likely to tell others about it and word gets about. It’s crucial that the whole recruitment process for your Southampton jobs creates a positive impression of your organisation


How do you go about finding the right candidates for your Southampton job?


Firstly, you need create a ‘job profile’ making sure that you truly fully understand what you need candidate for your Southampton jobs. make sure you have knowledge of the legal aspects of advertising your Southampton jobs (for example discrimination) before you start. Southampton City Council / Hampshire County Council websites will have some relevant information.

You obviously also need to place your adverts for your Southampton jobs somewhere to give them the maximum exposure. The most common ways include:

• Job Boards such as AllSouthamptonJobs

• Southampton Recruitment Agencies

• The Southampton Job Centre Plus

• Southampton Echo / Southampton Advertiser

You can find more detail on how to advertise your Southampton jobs by following the links below.


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