MCI releases results of 2013 Recruitment Trend Survey

"This is the second consecutive year that we have run this survey," commented Rhett Davies, partner at MCI. "The results of the survey clearly indicate that HR departments and professionals of corporate South Africa have become extremely proactive and are managing the bulk of their recruitment internally. Interestingly though, there was an increase of 6% in the number of corporates utilising agencies as their first port of call. This year's results also showed a remarkable increase of 5% in the number of organisations utilising Social Media to recruit staff, a statistic that is in line with the international trend."

Highlights of the survey

Some of the highlights from the 2013 survey were as follows:

• 87% of organisations attempt to source and place candidates internally before approaching recruitment agencies;
  74,3% of organisations have a careers section on their websites;
  
• 68% of organisations use job portals to advertise vacancies, as opposed to 65% using print media;
  
• 61% of organisations have an employee candidate referral awards program in place;
  
• 59% of organisations had an annual staff turnover of less than 10%;
  
• 58% of organisations use social media to recruit candidates, up from 53%; with LinkedIn being by far the most successful one utilised;
  
• 56,4% of organisations do not primarily make use of recruitment agencies to satisfy their requirements;
  
• 43% of organisations use a recruitment management system; and,
  
• 40% of respondents have between one and five recruitment agencies on their preferred supplier lists.

Overall, recruitment agencies and internal referrals gave the best quality candidates; whilst print media gave the worst, observations that were identical to those made last year.

The full results of the 2013 survey can be found at http://bit.ly/hrsurveyresults2013.

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