MCI releases HR Recruitment trend survey results

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"We believe this to be the largest survey of its kind ever to be conducted in South Africa," commented Rhett Davies, partner at MCI. "The interest shown in this survey took us all by surprise and clearly indicates that recruitment is an area that is causing many headaches for companies as they seek to grapple with the skills shortage that exists in this country. This year's survey resulted in similar but not identical results to that which was conducted in 2012 and 2013."

Highlights

Some of the highlights from the survey were as follows:

• 74% of organisations have a careers section on their website;
  
• 52% of organisations use a recruitment management system;
  
• 64% of organisations had an annual staff turnover of less than 10%;
  
• 88% of organisations attempt to source and place candidates internally before approaching recruitment agencies;
  
• 53% of organisations rely on internal staff to refer candidates to HR for hiring consideration;
  
• 46% of organisations have an employee candidate referral rewards program in place;
  
• 46% of respondents have between 1 and 5 recruitment agencies on their preferred supplier list;
  
• 60% of organisations do not primarily make use of recruitment agencies to fill their requirements;
  
• 66% of organisations use social media to recruit candidates; with LinkedIn being by far the most successful;
  
• 70% of organisations use job portals and 59% use print media to advertise vacancies; and,
  
• Overall, recruitment agencies and internal referrals gave the best quality candidates; whilst print media gave the worst

View the full results at www.mcidirecthire.com.