If you are new to recruiting, or having a hard time finding the staff you need, click here first to read our article on the recruitment process to ensure that you understand the selection process of a professional BEFORE you follow this guide to recruiting on your own.
1 Search for resumes online.99% of our clients who have already tried to recruit their own staff will have started by searching online for Curriculum Vitae. Usually the first stop is a recruitment advertising and resume search website in the Philippines such as JobsDB, JobStreet, Monster, Bestjobs etc. You might also look at freelance websites such as eLance and Crowdspring, or business networking sites like LinkedIn. They promise a huge database of candidates, easy keyword search tools, and instant search results.For the most part, these recruitment websites deliver what they promise. Of course, you will have to take time to register, complete a profile, learn the tools, and begin your search analysis. You will also need to be sure of the key words and phrases to search for – on some sites it hardly matters, on others the difference between “accountant” or “accounting” can be several hundred resumes. To access resumes or contact your selected candidates, you will usually be obliged to subscribe to a service or purchase credits that will enable you to access certain tools for a specified period or number of us.
1 Search for resumes online.99% of our clients who have already tried to recruit their own staff will have started by searching online for Curriculum Vitae. Usually the first stop is a recruitment advertising and resume search website in the Philippines such as JobsDB, JobStreet, Monster, Bestjobs etc. You might also look at freelance websites such as eLance and Crowdspring, or business networking sites like LinkedIn. They promise a huge database of candidates, easy keyword search tools, and instant search results.For the most part, these recruitment websites deliver what they promise. Of course, you will have to take time to register, complete a profile, learn the tools, and begin your search analysis. You will also need to be sure of the key words and phrases to search for – on some sites it hardly matters, on others the difference between “accountant” or “accounting” can be several hundred resumes. To access resumes or contact your selected candidates, you will usually be obliged to subscribe to a service or purchase credits that will enable you to access certain tools for a specified period or number of us.
- The upside is that you can start your recruitment search immediately (that feels good!) and the searching is relatively affordable. The downside is that a keyword search is the easy part. Once you have results – and most results are different (some are hard to decipher, others are free-form) – you then have to make an informed selection. Remember that time is money too, so anyone you add to your final shortlist will require time later to screen (read up on the recruitment process here).
- One of the biggest downsides for resume searches is the time it takes to screen a candidate – after all, candidates rarely update their profiles once their resume nets them a job, and they won’t immediately respond to emails that you send to them. So expect a lot of waiting for responses or chasing for responses. Once you actually make contact with a candidate who is available, you’ll want to at the very least vet the candidate against the claims made on their resume – we even like to ensure that the resume was written by the candidate and not a CV writing service or the cousin of their best friend's uncle.