{"id":578,"date":"2012-03-11T23:32:58","date_gmt":"2012-03-11T23:32:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/digitaleconomy.soton.ac.uk\/?p=578"},"modified":"2014-01-29T08:26:21","modified_gmt":"2014-01-29T08:26:21","slug":"online-recruitment-is-it-working","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/wsi\/online-recruitment-is-it-working\/","title":{"rendered":"Online recruitment \u2013 is it working?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Companies are increasingly using online recruitment \u2013 but they are still very much in the minority. Natasha Allden, a graduate of the University of Southampton\u2019s MSc in Digital Marketing, doesn\u2019t expect things to change anytime soon.<\/p>\n

She spoke to members of the University\u2019s Digital Economy Strategic Research Group about the topic, which she researched for her dissertation.<\/p>\n

Recruiters know there is a war for talent out there but online ads can result in too many unsuitable applications, which they then have to wade through. They tend to regard online jobseekers as passive as many tend to send the same general CV to several companies, impressing no-one.<\/p>\n

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Many companies fear losing touch of the recruitment process if they get involved with social media. They don\u2019t want people commenting publically on their brand but forget this is already happening on Facebook, Twitter etc.<\/p>\n

The monthly Digital Economy lunches feature speakers talking about a wide range of topics, networking opportunities and a few bites to eat.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Companies are increasingly using online recruitment \u2013 but they are still very much in the minority. Natasha Allden, a graduate of the University of Southampton\u2019s MSc in Digital Marketing, doesn\u2019t expect things to change anytime soon. She spoke to members of the University\u2019s Digital Economy Strategic Research Group about the topic, which she researched for her dissertation. Recruiters know there …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":72267,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[464306],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-578","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-digital-economy","column","threecol"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p44UOk-9k","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/wsi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/578","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/wsi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/wsi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/wsi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/72267"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/wsi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=578"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/wsi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/578\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3579,"href":"https:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/wsi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/578\/revisions\/3579"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/wsi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=578"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/wsi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=578"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/wsi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=578"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}