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Use of Job Boards and other similar recruitment web-based application A job board is a website that publishes job ads and is dedicated to matching employers with job seekers.
An online location that provides an up to date listing of current job vacancies in various industries.
The Advantages and disadvantages of online recruitment
It would be wrong to imagine that online recruitment is only about job boards and job sites —online recruitment goes far beyond this. (Read our article 'Online recruitment: an introduction' for more on this topic.) However, for most small to medium-sized companies online recruitment does generally mean advertising job vacancies on job sites and job boards. For this reason, in this article, we'll look at the advantages and disadvantages of using job sites and job boards to advertise your job vacancies.
The advantages of online recruitment
Cost
It's cost effective. Putting a job vacancy on your own website costs you nothing while putting one on a job site usually only costs a couple of hundred pounds in the UK. Ireland is a little cheaper at between €50 and €150 per ad. When you consider that a recruitment consultant fee for a candidate could be anything up to 20% of a year’s salary, and that an advertising in a national newspaper can cost thousands, you can immediately see the potential financial advantages of online recruitment.
Speed
It's quick. A job vacancy can be put on a job site in the morning, the first applications arrive by lunchtime, and a candidate interviewed by the end of the day. Of course, it isn’t always like this. Indeed, it isn't often like this, but this gives an indication of just how quick online recruitment can be.
Audience
The audience is bigger. Traditional print advertising methods, be they national, local or trade press face limitations: the success of your vacancy advertisement depends on people looking at your ad on that...