Job Spectrum

As job prospects enhance in the recovering economy, employers are devising new methods for recruiting possible candidates.In spite of searching through voluminous amounts of online applications as many employers have performed in the past, they are likely to search for candidates themselves, The Wall Street Journal reported.

Quite a few companies intend on scaling back their use of online job boards, which they say produce mostly unqualified leads. Instead, they intend on trying to find candidates with a specific expertise on places like LinkedIn, the on-line professional networking website, just before posting an opening.

As a result, corporations are starting to employ recruiters with expertise in headhunting and networking, rather than those individuals with experience processing paperwork.According to a December survey from the Corporate Executive Board, a business consulting firm, about 24 percent of companies plan on decreasing their use of third-party employment websites. About 80 percent of these surveyed said they intend on growing their utilization of alternatives to online job boards, which include employee referrals and other websites like Facebook and LinkedIn.

"Recruiters had to put in all this additional time to read applications but we didn't get advantage of it," said Arie Ball, V. P. of talent acquisition at food services company Sodexo USA.

Ball asserted applications with management-level openings rose by more than 50 % because the recession began, but most of the candidates had been unqualified. Currently, the business is hiring recruiters who specialize in headhunting, rather than those who are good at processing and filtering applications.

In addition, more than 500 leading US corporations are collaborating to launch a brand new platform, called the dot-jobs (.JOBS) Top Level Domain, according to a press release. The new platform comprises thousands of geographic, business and occupational websites ending in the dot-jobs suffix. A few examples of the websites consist of www.boston.jobs, www.insurance.jobs and www.technology jobs.

"The very largest of employers in the world have pooled their resources to build this recruitment vertical," said Bill Warren, executive director of DirectEmployers Association and former president of the Monster.com job board. "They want better competence from the internet and therefore are taking matters into their own hands to invest within the outcome...The potential for price savings is natural, sustainable and readily available free of charge to each and every company globally regardless of business or size."

With all of these changes to the online job hunting landscape taking place, candidates will have to be proactive within their job searches. Based on Intuit recruiting director Chris Galy, people looking for work need to take advantage of tools such as LinkedIn, Facebook to connect with recruiters, IT Enterprise Edge noted.