Bad candidate experiences can do more harm than good to the image of your company. When candidates have a bad experience, it can ward off good candidates, and most importantly, it can harm the employer brand. The candidate experience begins at the very first click. It starts at the home page or job board. Emails exchanged, interviews conducted, phone calls exchanged, are all steps in the candidate experience. When recruiters are thoughtful about each step that the candidate takes, it creates a positive experience.

The web is now the primary source of job and career information for candidates. Employers also use it as their first port of call when researching recruitment and staffing solutions. There are millions of job searches online each month across the globe and its more important than ever for every recruiter to have an effective recruitment website. The best recruitment websites are quick and easy to use, visible in search engines and encourage brand loyalty. They attract candidates and customers through social media, effective site function and personalised design. A successful recruitment website must achieve three objectives:

It can be hard enough to try and attract the right candidates and to get them excited about your company. It’s even harder to do this without an impressive site. 

With on average 30% of web visits being mobile, if your recruitment website is not responsive, you're missing out on talent. Unfortunately, there is no quick fix - responsive web design is a philosophy that must be adhered to create recruitment websites that are multi-platform and future-proof. Whether you are an employer looking for a careers portal or an agency looking for a total re-brand, Recsite has the in-house design team to help you realise your vision:

It is impossible to under-estimate the importance of an effective recruitment website: Corporate career websites are a cost-effective source of candidates for HR departments, often introducing the most and pro-active and valuable applicants.  Similarly, agencies and other recruitment brands build their recruitment strategy around their online offering. 

In un-certain economic times it can be easy to neglect your recruitment strategy. Companies can feel too busy trying to cut labour costs to think about investing in recruitment. This, however, can prove to be a big mistake.

Released on June 19th the new dashboard calendar gives a clear location to manage all your recruitment tasks within Recsite. You can add reminders from either the Candidate or Contact profile pages and can reschedule these events by dragging and dropping them from the dashboard calendar. 

Please see a short tutorial on this new feature below:

The Contacts section gets a makeover in the latest release of Recsite. The filters are moved to the top of the page horizontally allowing for easier combined search. Actions such as email and scheduling move up to the top bar and type-ahead functionality helps to connect drill down to relevant contacts.

HotTech100 popped into the Recsite offices to talk about the release of their new platform.