e-Recruitment Best Practice Guide & growing old
A colleague of mine on the DigitalRecruiting blog, John Whitehurst (this guy not this one), made me aware of a government document that’s floating around in Cyber space that apparently I (and he) contributed to. And I have to admit, clearly age is starting to affect as I’m blowed if I can remember anything more than the vaguest recollection of a phone chat at some time – but then again, me waffling on about this subject is a pretty regular occurrence I guess, so hard to recall specific instances.
In my defence it’s also clearly over a year ago and it’s been quite a busy year :-s
Anyway – not had chance to read it all the way through, but thought I might share it in case you had more time than I (or seeking a cure for insomnia) and there were any gems in it (other than the fact that the person pictured in the forward does look a little alarmingly like David Walliams – see if you can spot what I mean).
Happy reading - e-Recruitment Projects in the Public Sector: A Government guide to Best Practice; Second Edition 2007
Have just skim read & whilst lots of it is quite tedious (but probably worth holding onto if you’re going to be pitching to or working with Public Sector bodies), the Case Studies section makes very interesting reading. In the past I’ve found that such valuable info is never that well promoted, or else guarded by ATS vendors who I never fully believe take the whole picture into account with their “massive savings” calculations.
e-Recruitment has the potential to deliver significant cost and time efficiencies – FACT.
Maybe your organisation isn’t as well set up as Orange to, in the first place, know what and where you’re spending and then deploy and track the success of such wholesale recruitment process changes, but everyone has to start somewhere and with the kind of case studies that this document has set out for you to have in your top pocket to wave infront of your budget controllers, then you can hopefully start getting the focus needed and budget committed to really leverage the real benefits of e-Recruitment. Trust me – even if your start is only modest, it doesn’t take a lot for it to start paying for itself.
Comment by Alex — November 26, 2008 @ 11:02 am