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Choosing a good online recruitment agency
You should always consider the credentials of any site and any issues of confidentiality before submitting personal details. The most ethical sites should have privacy or confidentiality policies online.
A confidentiality or privacy policy should include information on where they send your information, whether they ask your permission to send information to companies, whether they send information to other 3rd parties and how long your information will stay available to others.
For the best sites and more information on best practice and good standards, you may wish to contact:
Members of the Association of Online Recruiters , which has joined the Online Recruitment Marketing Council, is a UK organisation, who have signed up to their code of conduct including aspects of privacy, originator authority for online display of information, keeping information updated and ‘current’, use of ‘traffic’ figures, provision of terms of business, and conforming with relevant current legislation.
50 of the best job and resume sites chosen by CareerXroads from a set of criteria (questionnaire online). Site also publishes online reviews of sites and articles on recruitment issues. Criteria for a review of jobseekers' experience of 4 sites, covered first impressions, finding a job, submitting a resume, creating agents, relevant content/building community, Privacy/feedback and disclosure. Mainly US sites but useful ideas.
Putting your CV online
Be particularly careful if you wish to include your home address and personal details in an online CV. Check for privacy and confidentiality policies and agreements. You may wish to set up separate contact details for employers and job applications.
Also, you should be aware that each country has different equal opportunity policies and identifying age, sex or gender, ethnic background and family circumstances in your CV, resume or application form may not be acceptable in some countries.
You should almost never send a photograph, as this might contravene an equal opportunity policy or prejudice the employer before your application is considered (unless it is required specifically for the job, e.g. theatre or modelling).
For further advice on developing and using CVs and resumes, please look at our CV section.
Good practice policies in online recruitment
- Becoming an active career manager - making use of internet technology, especially job agents and general agents online.
- Online Recruitment - magazine for recruitment and human resource (HR) professionals involved in internet recruitment, selection of articles online, promoting good practice in online recruitment
Recruitment agencies and lists (UK based)
- Abrade jobs UK search - UK Job Search Engine and recruitment agency directory of specialist agencies, general agencies and regional links, also short section on writing a CV
- Activate - job and career site includes work placements, voluntary opportunities and temporary jobs
- Adecco - large UK and international agency, site includes basic advice on CVs, interviews including questions you might like to ask
- Agency Central - directory of thousands of recruitment agencies and jobsites
- Brook Street - information about the agency, clear CV and interview advice, register for employment online, links to local networks
- Career Engineer - a useful site for engineers, includes links to leading agencies for engineers, also industry news, links to companies with vacancies, organisations offering training and continuous professional development
- CityJobs.com - UK and international jobs, with privacy policy, personal search agents, for banking, finance, accountancy and legal jobs
- exec-appointments - an advertiser of executive jobs over £50,000, permanent, interim and contract, including director and management appointments, non-executive director and comparable senior voluntary positions, with email alert service
- fish4jobs - thousands of UK jobs from local newspapers, including specialist channels for secretarial, office and support, sales, marketing, IT, engineering, construction, accounting, banking and finance
- Guardian Unlimited Jobs - jobs from the Guardian and Observer, also links to agencies and recruitment consultancies in different sectors
- gis-a-job - links to agencies, jobs by email
- GoJobsite UK- search for customise your jobsearch, also careers information and free online courses
- IC-Resources - providing graduate and management engineers and staff specifically to the microelectronics / semiconductor industry, with jobs in ASIC Design (VHDL, Verilog), Analog / Mixed-Signal / RF IC Design, CAD / EDA , ASIC Design Management, IC Layout, Product Engineering, Applications Engineering, Semiconductor Sales , Marketing and Account Management. Site includes a confidentiality policy
- Jobcentre Plus - bringing together Jobcentres and Benefit Offices, information on job hunting, online search, benefits, programmes, advice on making a claim, services for employers, allowances and benefits, links to other relevant sites
- JobEmploy - jobs and careers in in IT, Sales and Marketing, Retail, Accounting, Engineering, Purchasing, Administration, Customer Services, Secretarial, Legal, Travel and Leisure, Finance, Insurance, Hotel and Catering, and other business categories
- Jobmall - links to small number of agency sites for IT, education, engineering, law - search by vacancy, agency, also some links to employer sites
- Jobpilot.co.uk - UK and international vacancies
- jobs go public - public sector jobs and careers, in a wide range of sectors
- JobServe - large number of IT jobs, also accountancy, engineering, sales, finance, secretarial, legal and medical jobs
- Manpower - wide range of vacancies at all levels, including graduate opportunities, also a monthly digest of worldwide employment news.
- Matchmaker Personnel - UK engineering and IT consultancy (no confidentiality policy)
- Monster.co.uk - jobsearch, CVs, employers' profiles
- Net Jobs UK - including large list of online UK agencies, CVs, jobs and careers
- PeopleBank - UK site with FAQs explaining their system including confidentiality issues
- Planet Recruit - IT, engineering and management jobs, includes job alerts, also search criteria includes country, job function, sector, location, contract, minimum salary
- recruit-online - job vacancies in UK and Ireland also, recruitment news
- Reed Online - range of vacancies, but also huge range of jobsearch resources, including CV and interview advice, employment and career research and reviews, salary calculator, information on working in the UK, some employer (client) profiles, also links to specialist Reed sites also, includes temporary work
- SAT UK Recruitment Guide - online guide to UK recruitment agencies, listed by occupational sector + section for graduates + temporary staff positions
- Search Consultancy - based in Scotland but covering UK vacancies across all sectors
- Snapajob - part-time jobs, especially for students
- StepStone - UK and Europe, includes tips and articles, useful advice for applying to posts in some European countries including advice on international CVs, job agent to search for jobs, information for employers on working hours directive
- tempjobs.com - UK vacancies and transport links (from Reed)
- Top Jobs on the Net - for management, professional and technical recruitment, includes career management advice including information on CVs, interviews and assessment techniques, other career sections, good information about vacancies, graduate section, WAP service
- totaljobs.com - A- Z of agencies, wide range of sectors, including not for profit organisations, also company director search, analysis of UK market sectors, salary check, career health check and graduate career match, legal rights at work, women returners section, issues at work, graduate advice and temporary jobs, working abroad advice
- Workthing.com - jobs, vacancies, advice and information on all employment sectors, also includes a training section
- World Careers Network - large site with useful search facilities for UK University students looking for full-time, part-time, vacation, work experience and graduate placement schemes in the UK and Europe. Visitors can also search by regional vacancies.
Agencies and Lists (international)
- Adecco - large UK and international agency
- Careers Online - large Australian careers and jobsearch site including information on immigration
- Coolworks - summer and winter jobs mainly in the US, especially in resorts, parks, camps and on water
- Inter Career Net - jobs and career information for the Japanese - English bilingual professional community, also MBA sector
- Headhunter.net - internet agency for international job vacancies
- Jobpilot.com - options include permanent, graduate/entry level, freelance/contract, work experience/internship, student jobs, most employment sectors, Europe and worldwide
- PlanetRecruit - range of sectors in UK, Ireland and internationally
- StepStone - UK and Europe, includes tips and articles, useful advice for applying to posts in some European countries including advice on international CVs, job agent to search for jobs, information for employers on working hours directive (incorporating taps.com)
- Summer Jobs - international opportunities, US site
- WetFeet - information on companies, careers and industries also advice, newsletters, salary benchmarking tools and discussion boards for jobseekers, plus services for employers, US site
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