Recruiting Local Staff, locally…
by Kirsty on Jun.17, 2005, under Uncategorized
We´re recruiting a few positions at the moment to work in our offices in Derby. Most of them are temporary, covering acute requirements over the summer period. I placed a number of ads on Reed.co.uk using their free recruitment service called freecruitment.
Freecruitment is a great service (especially because it´s free) that works well, is easy for the user and allows you a great deal of space. However, the response can be a bit perplexing when you are specifically looking for local staff. Although you must select a geographical area based upon a town, job hunters can obviously search at every level up to national. Here´s what happens…
For my simple Graphic Design person, I´ve had responses from:
- Nottingham (just the one!)
- London
- Glasgow
- Poland
- India
I´m in no way prejudice against distant applications but let´s face it, how many small businesses are going to employ someone on a 2-month contract from India at a salary of below ?15,000. Although my response has been good, I am finding that it is taking quite some time to respond to everyone to decline their application. My solution – why doesn´t freecruitment introduce a select option so that employers can restrict their advert to people JUST searching on their local area?
