In today’s competitive job market, finding the right candidates to hire can be both time-consuming and expensive. Many businesses turn to job boards, believing this to be the most straightforward approach. However, navigating multiple job boards comes with significant hidden costs and hassles. Here’s why using our comprehensive hiring service is not only more cost-effective but also saves you from the headache of dealing with multiple platforms.

1. Our solutions save you time and money

When you choose our direct hiring solution, we post your job to all the leading job boards for you, for just a one-time, all-inclusive fee of £399. This means you don’t have to pay each job board individually, which can quickly add up. Our service offers bundled pricing that’s significantly lower than the cumulative cost of going to each job board directly.

If you go direct, it will cost you:

Reed.co.uk:       £150

CV Library:         £99

Totaljobs:           £219

Indeed:                £50 (same budget as we apply)

Total                     £518     

So, just by using our Essential Boost package, you save £199 without including free access to your very own branded ATS / Candidate Dashboard, social media exposure, expert advice & full dedicated support.

2. No contract and one payment

Setting up and managing contracts with different job boards is a hassle. Each platform has its own terms, payment schedules, and invoicing systems. By using our service there are no contracts to sign and you make one payment directly to us. We handle all the interactions with the job boards, so you don’t have to.

3. Candidate management in one place

Managing applicants from multiple job boards can be chaotic. Different platforms mean different interfaces, tracking systems, and candidate pools. Our service provides a unified candidate management system where all applications filter into a one easy-to-use dashboard. This not only saves you time but also ensures you don’t miss out on any potential hires due to oversight, confusion or an overzealous spam filter.

4. Full exposure

Job boards have different audiences. Posting on just one might not give you access to the full spectrum of potential candidates. With our service, your job listings are automatically distributed across all the main job boards, maximising your reach ensuring you attract a diverse pool of candidates, increasing your chances of finding the perfect fit.

5. Expertise and support always on hand

Navigating the complexities of job advertising can be overwhelming, especially if you’re not familiar with how each platform works. Our team of experts are here to guide you through the process, offering support and insights to optimise your job postings & assist with any aspects of hiring. This expertise can be the difference between a successful hire and a prolonged search.

So, hopefully you agree that using our service is a smarter, more economical choice than going to job boards directly. You save money by consolidating costs, reduce administrative headaches, and gain access to a broader pool of candidates. Plus, having a fully account managed service you can focus on doing what you do best.

For more information, please call Steve on 023 8033 6633 or email hi@bluerocketrec.co.uk for a no obligation chat on how it works, if it is suited to your particular role / sector & how we can help.

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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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 £399 – no 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 🚀