Tan Kin Lian's Blog: A new way to recruit employees

Tuesday, August 02, 2005

A new way to recruit employees

NTUC Income has adopted an innovative way to recruit new employees. It is producing encouraging results.

Earlier this year, we advertised in the major newspapers about the various types of jobs that will be available in 2005. They include insurance officers, marketing officers, customer service officers and professionals, such as accountants, actuaries, lawyers and others.

Interested applicants were invited to register in our recruitment portal. About 3,500 candidates responded and registered in the portal at www.income.coop/careers.

During the past 6 months, we have sent out the specifications of 50 jobs to suitable candidates, based on their area of interest and expected salary. These candidates are selected based on the details recorded in the database. On average, we invite about 50 candidates for each job.

The invited candidates are able to study the specification of the advertised job, and to respond, if they are interested. Based on their replies and preliminary assessment, we are usually able to shortlist about five candidates for an interview.

We have recruited 250 employees duirng the past 6 months, using this new approach. The quality of the candidate is as usually better than the traditional method.

7 comments:

Lim Der Shing said...: Erm... Mr Tan, this is not a new way to recruit. Collection of an online database of applicants and later notifying them via a database search engine and job alert emails or SMS is nothing new and is basic eRecruitment strategy used by most large firms. Most large firms already have such an infrastructure in place. However, whether the HR uses it to its fullest capability is the question.; August 02, 2005 2:30 PM
Anonymous said...: This comment has been removed by a blog administrator.; August 02, 2005 3:47 PM
Anonymous said...: Mr Tan,

By the way, I want to thank you for your time taken to read this comment in your blog. Thanks and really appreciate that. I also hope to get your response in your blog.

Zenus; August 02, 2005 3:49 PM
Tan Kin Lian said...: Dear Wonderdoggy88

I am glad to learn from you that a few other organisations are using this method of recruitment, and quite successfully.

I hope that more organisations will try this method, as it takes less time, and leads to better outcome.

I suspect that many HR managers are still recruiting in the "old way".; August 03, 2005 9:16 PM
Tan Kin Lian said...: Dear Kelvin Seow,

If you write a request to my e-mail, I will ask my HR manager to talk to you. I think that they can cover the topic for your research.; August 11, 2005 6:48 AM
Prakhar Lunawat said...: Mr. Tan,
I would like to receive the same answers for the questions asked by Kelvin. My research includes similar topics.
Please e-mail me at: prakhar_lunawat@yahoo.co.in

Thank You.

Yours,
Prakhar Lunawat.; August 07, 2008 1:26 PM
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