More and more employers in Dubai will be surveying for potential employees on the Internet this year, an online job in Dubai site has found. Around 16 per cent of Dubai job providers said they are hiring more staff than last year as well. A ‘Using Online Job Site in Dubai’ poll conducted by a renowned firm in June found that more than three quarters of employers who participated in the poll answered that they are going to recruit online.
Around 30 per cent said they aim to recruit between one and five professionals, 12 per cent aim to recruit between six and ten professionals, and seven per cent between 11 and 15, while 29 per cent said they will recruit more than 15 professionals. On an average, an online recruitment site receives 3,000 job seekers with online agencies witnessing a 25 per cent increase in the number of job seekers this year.
“That so many are planning to recruit online this year makes it very clear that organizations trust it as a method for sourcing talent, and that it will likely have an increasingly fundamental role to play in the recruitment strategies of HR departments across the region,” said, spokesperson
of the firm conducted the survey.
At a time when the financial slowdown has made organizations cut their budgets, online recruitment in Dubai is the most cost-effective means of finding the correct candidates for available jobs. A report by US-based Forrester Research states that the average cost to hire an employee via the Internet is nearly ten times less than through newspapers and magazine advertisements.
A total of 16 per cent respondents said they are using the most cost-effective hiring methods.
The speed of response, ability to cater to a bigger and wider audience and user-friendly interface on jobs websites has contributed to the popularity of online recruitment. A recent survey showed that IT jobs in Dubai are the biggest beneficiary of online recruitment because of the excessive use of internet by computer graduates as compare to other discipline’s graduates.
More than 52 per cent of the region’s employers said using jobsites is the preferred method of sourcing talent with 21 per cent considering the method to be fast, according to the poll.
One expert on the subject of human resource management while considering the recent surveys said, “There are more people registering for jobs this year. Employers are looking for a database where they can conveniently search for candidates with the right skills and abilities.”
While recruiters consider newspaper advertisements the next preferred method with 11 per cent sourcing through them, a mere 5 per cent consider career fairs beneficial.
Though the market in Dubai is still not stable and every employer is taking steps with immense caution there are thousands of young aspirants outside who want to make their Careers in Dubai . As the city of buzz is still their dream place with plenty of offerings and online job availability does not only facilitate employers but it is also of great importance to young job seekers in Dubai.
