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Are You Still Recruiting Like It’s 1999?

In the 1990s & 2000s, recruitment was about placing ads in newspapers or working with traditional agencies like Brook Street, hoping for the right candidates to come across your listing or to pop into the High Street agency to register. But today’s hiring landscape has drastically evolved. Candidates are no longer browsing Sunday papers; they’re job hunting 24/7 on mobile apps, job boards, and social media. Platforms like Indeed, Total Jobs, Google for Jobs & LinkedIn have revolutionised the process, making job searches instantaneous, global, and far more accessible.

Recruiting in 2024 is about leveraging digital tools for both speed and reach. With automated applicant tracking systems (ATS), AI-powered candidate screening, and targeted ads on social media, companies can now find candidates faster and more precisely than ever.

If your recruitment strategy is still based on old-school methods of using a recruiter? Or do you choose just one job board to keep it simple & costs down?

The modern candidate expects job listings to be visible on their devices, available whenever they choose to search. With real-time updates, mobile alerts, and social media engagement, candidates are no longer passive participants in the hiring process—they’re actively seeking opportunities all the time across various platforms.

We could mention TikTok. This will be key for today’s school & college leaves, but let’s leave that for another day…

When you choose Blue Rocket, you outsource the whole direct hiring process to us by:

  • We will post your advert across all the leading Job Boards, so you don’t have to sign contracts, pay each one individually etc… Saving you both time & money
  • All applications in an easy to use, simple dashboard
  • Candidate shortlist & interview scheduling
  • Full, complete solutions starting at just £399 one off fee – backed by our 100% No Fee, Happiness Guarantee
  • Make additional hires at no extra cost
  • Fully backed real human customer support, on the end of the phone or email offering advice and help whenever you need it

These are just some of the benefits of using Blue Rocket Recruitment when you next recruit!

So, are you still recruiting like it’s 1999, or are you using the tools and platforms of 2024?

While recruitment is never risk-free, our approach minimises your risk, offering tailored campaigns and a commitment to your satisfaction.

Ready to hire?

Please call 023 8033 6633, email hi@bluerocketrec.co.uk or complete advertise a job form

 

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Tried recruiting yourself, but without success?

We’d love to tell you that the recruitment process is as simple as posting a job advert and then sitting back, waiting for the applications to start flowing in, just leaving you to pick the best candidate for the job.

It’s not…

However, with a little help from an online recruitment provider like Blue Rocket, we can make sure you are on your way to making a successful hire – quickly and easily, for just £399.

The main reasons why most hiring managers & business owners really struggle to recruit themselves are:

  1. They spend 5 minutes putting a quick paragraph together, explaining roughly what the job entails and use this as a job advert.

Recruitment advertising is marketing – you need to first get attention, create desire, and then sell the opportunity. Why is this job better than their current one.

2. They choose to run their advert on just one job board, leaving it to chance, that is where their ideal candidates are looking. Or, even worse – they choose a ‘Free to Advertise’ option, for       example with indeed – where after 15 minutes of posting, their job advert falls off a cliff onto page 12 or beyond.

3. Speed & communication (more a lack of) – hiring managers & business owners fail to communicate with applicants, acknowledging applications, updating applicants on the status of the role / their application. Plus, above all – not reviewing & interviewing candidates in a timely fashion. Waiting 3 weeks to contact the ideal applicant, only to find out that they got snapped up and started with a competitor a week ago.

We get it – business owners, hiring manager & entrepreneurs are busy getting on with running their business, looking after their customers and haven’t got time to invest in the recruitment process.

But… You need to invest in the recruitment process, and if you engage the services of Blue Rocket Recruitment, for just £399:

  • We’ll write you a compelling, fully optimised job advert from scratch, that will get the right candidates applying to your job
  • We’ll advertise your job across all the leading job boards, online platforms and social media – not only attracting the best candidates, but more of them
  • All applications come with full CVs and the applicant’s contact details
  • Our simple, cloud-based dashboard allows you to manage all applicants in one place
  • For a limited time, we’ll arrange all interviews on your behalf for FREE
  • Fully account managed – support only ever a call a way
  • We offer a recruit of your money back guarantee

So, if you are looking to recruit directly, but don’t have the expertise or the time to ensure your campaign is a success – engage Blue Rocket Recruitment.

For just a one-off fee of £399 (no more to pay), no contract, no commitments – you’ll be on your way to making your next great hire, fast.

Call one of our friendly team on 023 8033 6633 or email hi@bluerocketrec.co.uk to find out more or to get cracking. 🚀

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The key component of making any recruitment campaign a success is sourcing the right candidates in which to shortlist & interview from. Sounds obvious, doesn’t it? But if it is so obvious, surely common sense would ensure that the advertising process is fundamental to any recruitment campaign – attracting the right candidates!

You’d of thought… but time & time again we see poorly written adverts written on company websites, job boards, social media & all over the internet. It’s not just employers who are guilty of this – some of the worst we’ve seen have been poorly written adverts by recruitment agencies.

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    Are Job Boards the best way to recruit?

    Speaking to a number of owners, directors and hiring managers, we often get asked – are job boards really the best way to recruit?

    A lot of recruitment agencies will say, job boards are a thing of the past, it’s all about tapping into our little black book, the under the radar pool of candidates that they have access to, and yes, when recruiting at CEO or Director level, especially for big organisations paying salaries of £100K plus, yes. But for your more general roles, albeit office based admin, accounting, trades & construction, hospitality, sales (I could go on), job boards are by far the best source of candidates. Job Boards are where the majority or recruitment agencies get 95% of their candidates from – but they wont tell you that, why would they – then you could cut out the middle man, and recruit direct 😉

    Over the past 5 years, I must say that with unemployment at an all time low, there has been big skill shortages which has not made it easy to recruit for many roles, across various sectors. But now, as we emerge from the pandemic, and with more and more good employees unfortunately being made redundant, there is a pool of good candidates, looking for a new job across the majority of sectors – and where do they go first to look for a job, you’ve got it – job boards.

    Don’t just take it from me, here is some data from the job boards to back this up.

    Indeed (data updated for March 2020)

    With a strong worldwide presence, Indeed continues to lead in the market overall:

    • 250 million unique monthly visitors
    • Database of 175 million CVs
    • 10 jobs added per second globally

    However, the data from three of the UK’s other leading job boards is also hugely positive:

    Totaljobs (data provided for May 2020)

    • 5 million visits
    • 5 CVs in their database
    • 8m applications made
    • 66,376 jobs posted

    CV-Library (year-on-year data provided for June 2020)

    • Website traffic up by 5.9%
    • CV registrations increased by 19.2%
    • Average applications per vacancy increased by a massive 106%, with an average 30+ applications per job

    Reed (data updated for June 2020)

    • 70% increase in clicks from Google through to their website
    • Some sectors, such as social care, has seen the number of jobs posted more than double in June 2020 (year-on-year)

    These impressive figures for job board interest show that these platforms are still by far one of the most effective tools to use for your recruitment.

    However, we fully understand that it is not only time consuming to reach out to all of the individual job boards, pay them all separate, then right a fully optimised advert that really sells your opportunity, post it on each one, then watch sporadic applications come in to your inbox – if it’s not something you are familiar with, it can be a real headache. That’s why we’ve launched Blue Rocket Recruitment 🚀 –  we do it all for you, write your advert, post it across all the job boards, plus give you access to your own fully branded, cloud candidate dashboard which ranks all candidates in order of suitability, just leaving you to recruit as many candidates into you would like into your business, and for just £399no more.

    Attract. Engage. Hire. Grow 🚀🚀

    If you’d like to learn more, require any more information or simply have a vacancy that you’d like us to advertise for you, please do not hesitate to contact either myself of one of the team on 023 8033 6633 or email hi@bluerocketrec.co.uk 

    All the best,

    Steve Wyeth

    Founder 🚀