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A quick piece of advice for Advertisers!

October 14, 2008 17:03 by vicki


This is the first post dedicated to advertiser advice and its something I constantly advise my clients on an ongoing basis (drive them mad basically!!)

We introduced a new section to the site about 6 months ago now where candidates can let us know why they didnt choose to apply for a job, now to be honest a lot of candidates think its another way to apply and a lot click on it but leave it blank.

By far though of the candidates who do complete it the reason they choose not to apply for the role is because there is no salary listed - I'm talking of maybe 100 comments everyday about 80% of the reasons relate to salary.

Now I know sometimes you can't include the salary for whatever reason but to be fair its not really such a big thing to include one when you can now is it? And the difference in the quality of response you will get from the site really will make it worth it. Feel free to disagree below!


Comments (2) -

October 15. 2008 19:24

Vicki, you are 100% right. Perhaps those messages that people fill in ‘Why I do not want to apply...’ should also be sent to the advertisers. That would make tehm aware of the ‘scale of the problem’ of the job advertised with no salary specified.

Ivan

October 16. 2008 08:55

Hi Ivan

To be honest I'm not sure how worthwhile it would be to send them onto advertisers. If its a specific issue with a role miscategorised we always forward onto the advertiser but the comments literally are - "No Salary" - I think I will just keep hassling advertisers to post it where possible!!

v

vicki

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