Wednesday, September 16, 2009

Global Recruitment Trends

Recruitment practices are increasing throughout the world because of shortage of skilled staff and advancement in technology. The recruitment industry is elaborating these changes by developing strategic alliances and global partnering to ensure access to the best candidates worldwide.

Professionalism, technical competence and the development of world best practice are the hallmarks of successful engineering recruitment agencies. Nowadays, many organizations have moved to outsourcing all of their non-core activities.

Recruitment agencies are moving towards sourcing candidates through internet job boards enabling recruitment activity to occur in real time. The ability to recruit internationally has been a huge development and blessing for organizations using these services.

In Asia, the growth in temporary and contract positions is a continuing trend and one that is already emerging as a significant growth area in Australia.

As there is no licensing requirement for recruitment agencies, almost anyone can set up a business with little accountability for their actions. The closest we have to licensing in Australia is membership to the Recruitment and Consulting Services Association (R.C.S.A.), the peak industry body throughout Australia and New Zealand.

Job Network agencies are contracted to find jobs for unemployed job seekers in many fields, therefore their key focus is on the job seeker. Private agencies provide a service to employers using their skill, expertise, recruitment systems and networks to source the right candidates whether currently employed or not for their client companies.

Engineering is a major growth area and positions will continue to emerge globally for skilled and qualified personnel. It is pleasing to note that UK is at the forefront in many areas within the recruitment profession.

This is a guest article by James Parker. James is an expert engineering recruitment consultant working with a UK based engineering recruitment agency and specializes in consultancy services related to electrical engineering jobs, mechanical engineering jobs and civil engineering jobs.

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