I'm looking for a new receptionist/admin type person.
Where is the best place to put an ad for staff?
I've used seek in the past. Is it any better or worse than the other employment websites?
Does anyone use the classifieds these days?
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I'm looking for a new receptionist/admin type person.
Where is the best place to put an ad for staff?
I've used seek in the past. Is it any better or worse than the other employment websites?
Does anyone use the classifieds these days?
What I've tended to do is put it on Seek and then share it on my Facebook, twitter and LinkedIn. That way I use the job board but make sure I've given it as much promotion as possible. I work in online, so haven't put anything in the print classifieds, but I still look at them each week in my local paper. A lot of papers do deals where you put it in the paper and they'll put it on their sites too (CareerOne or MyCareer)
Not much help from here, but we've used seek and the like in the past and we find the quality of applicant isn't always great...(meaning how suited they are for the job etc).
Be interested to see if anyone has been suggestions too!
you can advertise on gumtree as well now....
theres always a wide variety of adds on there
Same. Half the resumes we got last time didn't even come close to meeting our requirements despite the fact that I tried to be very specific.:
The HR companies charge a fortune so we won't be bothering with them again.
Seek or CareerOne are the best IMO. I think it's actually worth the expense of getting an agent to do it for you, they have a wider reach than just putting the job on a website or two. For instance, I applied for a job through CareerOne, and the agent put me forward for another one I hadn't seen, because I was perfectly qualified for it. I got it :) So with an agent, you're getting access to all of their experience as well, and you also have a 'warranty' of sorts with your new employee - if they don't work out within 3 months, the agency will find you another applicant for no extra cost.
Also, I'm in reception/admin, and am totally willing to let you pay me to relocate ;)
ETA - Apparently you posted while I was typing, and made my entire post irrelevant. Except for the last paragraph.
I had a boss who still only uses the classifieds for reception admin roles. Her logic is that she likes to see people can still do things the old fashioned way (which was important in the company I was at).
If I am actively seeking work, I will actually scour the classifieds as well as online.
Also, consider this. It's really hard to find good people in general, so if you have a good person working for you already but they're not necessarily best suited to their current role, perhaps it would be prudent to move them to a new role instead of getting rid of them.
I have no idea how big your company is, I just wanted to put that out there.
CareerOne you say? I just had a look and it is almost $50 cheaper than Seek. I like to save money :)
Unfortunately we have no-one we could move into the job.
I would also try advertising in the local community ie. in the school and childcare bulletins etc to attract some different applicants
There is also a website called careermums. Not sure on pricing though.
Finding staff is definitely hard, finding good staff is near impossible. My boss is onto her 4th replacement for me and I only left last month!!! One quit the week I was leaving after 11 weeks of training!!!
Good luck
where are you Onyx?
If only I lived in Canberra LOL:
I'm in Canberra.:
Astrolady, if you lived in Canberra I would hire you in a flash. A milliflash even.
Let us know how careerone turns out! All for saving money too ;):
When I'm seriously looking for a job then I look in both classifieds and online. When I was serious about starting in admin I also looked at and was put on through a traineeship, is that something you could do?
Is a 2 1/2 hour commute too much... Lol
I have a friend who might be suited?
When I look for jobs I like to get the local paper first. I find all the good jobs are in the local paper. I also check online, seek and career one mostly.
But one thing I always check is how long and detailed the job advertisement is. If I see a two liner in the paper that is very brief about the position I will generally give it a miss unless I'm desperate. This is because IMHO the employer is too tight to pay for a decent add therefore will pay terrible or they are just plain lazy. Nothing worse than a stingy boss who will probably cut heaps of corners in the workplace! :lol:
Personally I like to spend money where I think there is a good ROI. Bonuses for staff and quality equipment pay for themselves. Paying for extra lines in job ads doesn't seem like a good investment to me and nor does spending my time writing long ads.
K2B, we're still tossing up whether to put someone on in Sydney or Canberra but if we go with Canberra I'll PM you :)
thanks
I've used to always used consultants/agencies on the basis that while they cost a fortune, if the person you hired is not as good as their resume (and hey, that never happens does it?!?!) then you don't have to pay the fee and the agency is the one that wastes most of its time in finding someone to fit.
We then switched to Seek when it grew in popularity.
TBH the most success we've ever had with new people other than one brilliant receptionist through an agency was word of mouth. The industry I was in was so small, so you got to know everybody quite well and it was relatively easy to put the feelers out and occasionally poach ;-) Not sure if your industry lends itself to this though.
Good luck. I hope the process isn't too painful. I think getting good people is right up there as one of the hardest things about doing business.
Canberra is a really hard market to find good staff for a reasonable price because the commonwealth pays so well. We have a lady in my office who is effectively a receptionist and she is on $55k plus 14.9%super and while she is great I think it is a huge amount to open mail and take phone messages.
That probably isn't actually much help for you though.
It may be easier to open an Adelaide office :)
Sydney is looking good. For same price as our large, attractive office in Sydney we can rent a small, dark place with old carpet in Canberra.