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Staffing.org Weekly Update

Wednesday, May 07, 2008

UPDATE Editorial Team: David Earle, Elizabeth Lipp, Philip Wagner

TABLE OF CONTENTS

Feature Article - Measuring Your Corporate Careers Website Against the Best
Last Week's Feature Article - Is "Overchoice" Obscuring Your Best Candidates?
Research Note - Is Your Internship Program a Prime Employee Source?
Last Week's Research Note - RPO Has Positive Quality and Satisfaction Implications

FEATURE ARTICLE

Measuring Your Corporate Careers Website Against the Best

If you can measure hiring cost, quality of hire, satisfaction of hiring manager, and time to hire, well then, you can measure hiring site - that is, your corporate careers website - against the best. And you certainly should. Make that, certainly must. How else, after all, can you compete for the same talent?

Take a look at the following websites, then at those of the companies you most respect and against which you compete. See what they're saying, what they look like, how they attract and engage. Step back and compare. Grade yourself on the 11 points below. Then decide what to emulate.

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LAST WEEK'S FEATURE ARTICLE

Is "Overchoice" Obscuring Your Best Candidates?

When choice is assumed, hiring managers don't have to be too specific about what they want. They know the system will bail them out, or give them "good enough" results. But it hammers recruiting, Dr. Arlene Barro's book maintains. A more selective recruiting system increases the chances of good candidate "fit," with better results all around.

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RESEARCH NOTE

Is Your Internship Program a Prime Employee Source?

Summer's coming, and so is your organization's intern program. Increasingly, employers are looking here to find new employees, according to results of a new survey conducted by the National Association of Colleges and Employers (NACE). Surveys were provided to 1,189 NACE employers members; 311, or 26.2%, responded.Results of NACE's 2008 Experiential Education Survey, conducted November 2007 into January 2008, show that emphasis on hiring from the intern program is growing. By sector, 45.8% represented manufacturing organizations, 48.7% were services employers, and 5.5% were from the government/nonprofit sector. By region, 31.3% were from the Midwest, 20.3% were from the Northeast, 34.8% were from the South, and 13.5% were from the West.

LAST WEEK'S RESEARCH NOTE

RPO Has Positive Quality and Satisfaction Implications

Regardless of how RPO is defined, the top pressures driving all organizations to pursue it are the same, according to Aberdeen Research. These pertain to the lack of internal HR resources required to provide and/or support expected levels of recruiting quality and efficiencies, as well as the need to control recruiting costs.

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