What platforms are you all using to hire / find work?
It just feels so hard to find the right workers these days (sales / technical / manufacturing / engineering sort of fields). Seek is of course the biggest platform, but they charge pretty extortionate prices as far as job platforms go. And our experience is that Seek tends to attract a lot of mass distributed resumes, and they're mostly business and marketing major etc.
So you're a business looking to hire? Righto. What industry? What type of position?
This will make a huge difference. For example - teachers have their own magical, mystical ways of advertising/finding jobs whereas the restaurant down the road may very well be on Seek.
There's also a labour shortage in some industries so it's probably exacerbating your problem.
One option is to find a (good) recruitment firm. Yeah, you'll need to cough up some money, but they can help you find a good candidate: especially if they already have some they're in contact with. I'd also suggest going for a more industry-specific one rather than just a "recruitment" company.
If Seek is "too expensive", then no chance OP will be willing to pay a recruitment agency! The ones I go through charge employers 15-20% of the starting salary as a commission.
I'm pretty sure the one I dealt with recently just invoices for their service rather than a commission, but I could be wrong.
You could be right - these things probably vary by industry. Filling high volume/high turnover roles might simply have a fixed cost. One way or another, the recruiters have to be able to make a living.
I'm in the corporate world and the amounts that I see still wow me. In a lot of cases, it's better for the employer to offer a salary increase to try keep someone than to try and go to market to find someone new (even though a salary increase is an annual cost vs a one-off agency fee).
If you're not willing to pay someone else to do it, then Centrelink has a huge list of jobseekers you can probably sort through.
Forget about Centrelink . We tried going through Centrelink to look for applicants and they never responded to our phone calls or email. When we found someone they never sent us the paper work.
they're mostly business and marketing major
Sounds about right. They are the degrees that are so light touch that anyone could pass and not be of much contribution to society.
As above I'd suggest approaching people on linkedin who are looking for opportunities.
Or referrals. My work just put in referral scheme.
You gotta be on Seek because everyone checks Seek, even if you have all the best contacts on LinkedIn and stuff you still check Seek. What I don't get is why people pay for a Seek ad but then put no effort into the ad itself. Your hourly wage would make preparing and checking on the ad more expensive than the ad itself if you do the process right.
I used to work in setting up company recruitment platforms, there's quite a few options. However if Seek is too expensive, you're probably not going to like most of them. Linkedin Recruiter licenses are great though, the market data and candidate search tools are impressive for the HR space (because the HR space is about a decade behind every other space).
Try Jora, Indeed and LinkedIn. But also remember the cost of time. If someone is sitting around actually reading 50 resumes off Seek that's costing you more than the Seek ad. If you're better filtering what's coming in, you'll get better applicants via Seek.
And as recommended, internal referrals. Although rather than setting up a paid scheme often it's better to make it as easy as possible to put in a referral. The easier it is the more you'll get without needing to pay a cent.
If you're doing a large intake, you can also get companies that will basically roll in with their recruitment team and tech and do it for you. Depends on the size though.
Indeed. Spent around $80 got over 1000 clicks and around 80 applications.
Advantages of Indeed are:
* Teams Meeting Calendar Integration
* Auto Rejection based on Skill
* Automated Responses if you want them use to go through Test Gorilla first.
* Mini Test
Please make sure to proofread your ad by someone with English as a first language. I was looking for work recently and the main thing that stopped me clicking on ads was poor language (that, and being obviously generic where they have copy-pasted the same ad and tweaked one detail to make it apply to multiple job vacancies). I want to work for a place that is heavily invested in getting the best employees they can and treating them really well and being the best workplace they can be (so they will try as hard as they can to craft the perfect ad to make you want to apply), not a place that wants to get bums on seats as fast as possible and doesn't give a crap about them.
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