Job postings have always been an essential component of recruitment and continue to evolve to keep up with today’s job market. The most important question for employers and staffers to ask is, where are most jobs posted? To maximize a job board’s ability to acquire talent, most organizations prefer to post their job openings to multiple sites. Today, most staffing companies have already implemented or are moving towards an automated job posting process that leverages a job distribution platform, rather than using a manual process. The updated process offers increased visibility, centralized management, improved time to fill, and intelligent ROI.
Job Search Sites
Most job distribution platforms are third-party applications that manage the flow of job postings from the organization’s system of record to the various job boards that they have contracts with. The sites also manage the flow of candidates applying to the various postings back into the organization’s records.
First, a job is identified in the system of record and pushed via integration interface over to the job distribution platform. Next, the jobs are pushed by integrations over to the various premium job boards that the organization has contracts with; then the posts become active on the various job boards and are ready to take in the applications. As candidates apply, the job board forwards the information, such as the resume and contact, to the distribution platform, which in turn, forwards the candidate details to the parser associated with the system of record. Then candidates’ records are attached to the job within the system of record and appropriate people are notified about the new applicant to initiate candidate engagement.
Job Distribution
A job distribution platform is typically chosen based on:
- Integration capabilities with the system of record
- Ease of use
- Time to post and fill
- Accuracy of candidate and source capture
- Cost
What is required in a job posting? There are certain areas to focus time and resources for an effective job posting, such as:
Selection of job boards to participate with distribution platform
It is smart to choose boards that will leverage the complete cycle of the automated process and conduct a thorough review of each automated process for each board, as even minor adjustments often assist optimization.
Clear roles and responsibilities
Either a centralized posting team controlling the entire process or individual recruiters managing the process can be used.
Accurate formatting and details
All of the important fields must be populated (job title, job location, job categorization, job description, jobs skills, etc.) and the format should be appealing.
30-day postings and slot postings optimization
There should be strategic expiration, refresh and switch of postings management in place.
Parser management process
Establish parser backlogs and queues, parser failures and parser field capture.
Recruiter notification and candidate engagement process
Recruiters should be notified when candidate applications come into the system of record so that they can engage with candidates immediately.
It’s essential that staffing companies define, review or refine workflow and strategy.
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