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RSSStudy identifies 20 best practices for Web-site recruiting
October 16, 2000
Recruitsoft/iLogos Research, which studies and monitors trends in the Internet recruiting industry, has identified what it sees as the 20 best practice Web site features for effective recruiting.
"We have been monitoring the Fortune 500 for the past three years, and during that time we have seen tremendous growth in these companies' use of corporate Web sites for recruiting," said Yves Lermusiaux, founder of iLogos Research.
"We are focusing on the best practice Web site features that are most effective for recruiting qualified candidates in order to shed new light for all companies on effective online recruiting in today's tight labor market."
According to San Francisco-based Recruitsoft/iLogos, the best practices for Fortune 500 career Web site recruiting include:
- Link to careers section from homepage
- About the company: benefits
- About The company: culture
- Separate college recruiting section
- Job search by job category
- Job search by location
- Job search by keyword
- Urgent need jobs highlighted
- Complete job description
- One click to apply
- Pre-assessment tools customized for each position
- Choice of cut-and-paste form or resume builder
- Attachment of formatted resume
- Application automatically connected to a job
- Anonymous application
- Email to friend
- Job agent
- Profiling
- Reuse of candidate information for multiple applications
- Online user feedback
A full report detailing the Fortune 500 Companies' use of these features, entitled Best Practices for Fortune 500 Career Web Site Recruiting, will be released October 26. The company will also detail the study results in three separate Webcasts beginning on that date.
Edited by Steve Tarnoff
Managing Editor, HRHub.com
Starnoff@vertical.net
