Reading the Recruiter magazine this morning I was delighted to see an excellent example of a company building their own talent pool, without having to use ‘traditional’ external sources. The Park Plaza (Westminster Bridge) due to open early 2010 has been attracting candidates through its own career site where all vacancies are advertised. They are looking to recruit c800 staff and to date have received 4500 applications through its own website. They also held a jobs-fair which saw c650 people attend. This has been led by HR Director, Sarah Hegarty, who has also been building a pool of fully-trained casual labour made up to students and local residents to cater for big events.
Sarah says “There are a lot of people out of work at the moment and it is important that we have a real core base of people from the local community for our key positions. At breakfast, you need people ready for 5.30 in the morning who can get to work in all kinds of weather.”
Despite their career site not being the most user friendly and I would personally make many changes, I’d have to say hats off to them for looking to secure their new personnel through direct routes.
Sarah says “There are a lot of people out of work at the moment and it is important that we have a real core base of people from the local community for our key positions. At breakfast, you need people ready for 5.30 in the morning who can get to work in all kinds of weather.”
Despite their career site not being the most user friendly and I would personally make many changes, I’d have to say hats off to them for looking to secure their new personnel through direct routes.
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