Gone are the times when intimidating personnel sporting horn-rimmed glasses grilled and scrutinized individuals with their penetrating gaze within the dingy, dust-stained cubicles of their recruitment businesses.
The current age is digital, and so are its recruitment procedures.
“Job seekers database is not a gold mine anymore. Recruitments are carried out on social media these days, mainly through LinkedIn,” says Rahila Narejo, a neuroscience strategist and the Founding father of Narejo HR – a prime human useful resource consultancy agency working out of Karachi.
“Recruitment and talent hunting services that were previously outsourced by many companies are now carried out in-house by human resource departments. This is mainly due to the availability of all kinds of recruitment tools on the internet.”
Digitalization has taken the world by a storm. It has laid concrete for the company sector to cut back bodily labour and ultimately, get rid of it for admin-related and entry-level duties by incorporating digital instruments. The employment business isn’t any completely different.
Increase of digital media particularly, the arrival of Fb, Twitter, and LinkedIn, in the course of the early 2000s has altered the sphere of the recruitment market tremendously.
In keeping with a report by DMR Stats, a digital stats gathering web site, 94% recruiters on this planet use LinkedIn to vet candidates. Moreover, a job put up on LinkedIn is more likely to get 5.7 and three.1 instances extra views than that on Fb and Twitter respectively.
The follow can also be getting widespread among the many 1.5 million LinkedIn customers in Pakistan, which incorporates each headhunters and job seekers. In keeping with a report, Pakistan ranks among the many prime 22 LinkedIn utilizing international locations with respect to the variety of members.
“I use LinkedIn regularly to reach out to candidates,” says Sana Mughal, Human Useful resource Supervisor at Infotainment World Pvt. Ltd. (HOT FM 105). Mughal herself was recruited by LinkedIn. “Entry level candidates can be found on any local job portal, but if one is looking for aspirants for a specialized and technical position, LinkedIn is the tool for them.”
Trade specialists say it’s not simply small and medium scale corporations that want LinkedIn for hiring workers, however multinational corporations and enormous company giants additionally put up job openings on the platform.
Moreover, one can entry job openings by worldwide corporations on LinkedIn and might be thought-about by them extra simply now.
“Pakistan is a little late to most things, but all around the world when a candidate is considered for a position, his entire social media presence whether it is Facebook, Twitter, or Instagram, is checked out before he is even called in for an interview,” says Maha Khalid, Profession Advising Head at Profession Counselling Portal Pakistan (CCP).
Govt Editor at Florida Immediately Newspaper, Bob Gabordi, who was in Pakistan lately, narrated an analogous story the place he put a stop to the hiring process of a really competent candidate after screening her Fb account. This means that not solely LinkedIn, however different social platforms are additionally important for touchdown jobs.
As reported within the research by DMR, there are a complete of 433 million customers on LinkedIn and nearly two new members are registered every second. A median person spends nearly 17 minutes on LinkedIn every month. A job seeker, nonetheless, spends far more than that.
The acceptance of the job posting instrument of LinkedIn might be gauged by the truth that 60% of the full revenues of LinkedIn had been gathered by the instrument in 2015.
Nevertheless, it’s essential to know that the Pakistani job market, together with that of multinationals, doesn’t use the job looking for instrument that LinkedIn has designed for recruiters.
“There is no evidence of actual hiring taking place from LinkedIn job applications. Headhunters hunt people through this medium and offer opportunities after interviews,” explains Khalid of CCP. “LinkedIn, however, helps professionals connect with job seekers.”
Expertise acquisition corporations and managers, as a substitute, use LinkedIn to construct contacts and method people after finding out their profiles. They use the networking instrument relatively than utilizing the job posting instrument.
Whereas this skilled networking instrument has proved to be important for each recruiters and job aspirants, one have to be on the be careful for pretend job openings which have additionally been reported currently.
One instance is the case of Fatima Hussain, a job seeker who has been working from residence for a number of years now. “I was hired for an accounting project. The Manager HR who approached me didn’t appear to be a fraud, even for a minute,” recollects Hussain. “He and his company vanished in thin air after the month ended. And so did my pay-check.”
Regardless of the cons, the recognition of LinkedIn has proved to enhance the working procedures of the recruitment business tremendously. Not like earlier than, the current age wants us to not be a grasp of generalities.
“Now is the age of specialists. We cannot afford to be generalists anymore,” believes Narejo.