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Welsh Recruitment

Friend of Foe?

Employers turn to Facebook to recruit

(Picture: Facebook, logo)

Employment news has been dominated by two issues throughout 2007: social networking site usage at work and the problem of recruiting and retaining staff.
But it now seems that the headache of sites such as Facebook may actually provide the cure for employers’ recruitment difficulties.

According to a survey conducted by recruiters Crone Corkill & FSS, almost 8% of UK employers are using networking sites as an informal part of the referencing process. And, this number is expected to rise now that Facebook profiles can be accessed quickly and easily through search engines like Google.

The survey also found that 86% of general office and admin workers use Facebook on a regular basis – a figure that supports the latest stats indicating that Facebook is now the highest-traffic UK social networking site with 6.5m unique users last month, a 15-fold increase year-on-year, according to data published today by Nielsen//NetRatings.

So, given the difficulties faced by most employers to attract and retain the best candidates, it seems that Facebook will be another tool in the recruitment armoury. I guess the old adage, ‘if you can’t beat them, join them’ holds true here also

Students look for career-related work

Students are opting to take part-time work related to their intended chosen career path instead of the traditional pub or retail jobs, according to new research by the Royal Bank of Scotland.
The research found that 40 per cent of current students are working in career orientated term-time work, a figure that supports earlier research conduced by NatWest which found that 50,000 gap year students are using their break to work rather than travel.
Mark Worthington, Head of Student Banking at RBS, said: “Students now recognise that a degree combined with work experience improves their CVs and job prospects after University.
“Taking on term-time jobs which are relevant to their future careers provides excellent experience as well as much needed extra money.”
The survey found that the most popular fields of work that undergraduates are looking for are marketing, advertising and management consultancy – fields anticipated to pay higher salaries upon graduation.


Hain: More people in work but it’s still not enough

(Picture: Peter Hain)

In an exclusive interview with our sister publication, Inside Welsh Recruitment, Peter Hain set out the Government’s mission to achieve full employment for Wales and the rest of the UK.

But, Mr Hain, Secretary of State for Wales and Department of Work & Pensions, warned that although there “are more jobs in Wales than there have ever been in our history… there are still far too many people on benefits.”

He added that the premise behind the New Welfare Reform Green Paper, entitled In Work, Better Off: Next steps top Full Employment, is the determination to see the 23,000 job vacancies currently available in Wales filled by “people coming straight off long-term benefits.”

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