“Shall I Compare Thee” . . . Market Statistics
It’s not to the proverbial ”summer’s day” that the region’s employers are comparing candidates this season (although the skies are cloudless and these abound), but to other candidates with very similar experience, skills and credentials from across the globe, and the comparisons are being made ever easier with the ever-increasing popularity of internet job sites with their rich global databases and cutting edge searching, screening, and sorting technologies.Employers can today from the comfort and confines of their desk run a confidential search and screening of candidates in any given position in their industry and determine what the landscape looks like at that level and how competitive their own staff (or prospective staff) are positioned. They can compare salaries, training, skills, employment records, education and a number of other parameters to set, sanity check or update their own internal benchmarks and adjust their human resources decisions accordingly. With a leading recruitment site like bayt.com, the Middle East’s #1 job site, sporting a database with upwards of 1.2 million candidates, growing daily, all from the region or interested in migrating to the region, the depth, breadth and quality of the data at employers’ disposal as they make their hiring, firing or promoting decisions has never been greater.
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Age Discrimination Outlawed in UK
On 1 October the new age discrimination law, the Employment Equality (Age) Regulations 2006, will come into force in the UK. Under new legislation, it will be illegal to discriminate against workers based on age and all ageist recruitment and age discriminatory employee training policies will be outlawed. Terminating workers because of age will be illegal before the age of 65 and employers will have to give their staff six months notice of when they expect them to retire as they approach the age of 65. Workers will have the right to request that they work beyond the age of 65. The new laws are designed to protect workers of any age from age discrimination.In the USA, legislation against age discrimination has been in place for years. The Age Discrimination in Employment Act of 1967 (ADEA) protects individuals who are 40 years of age or older and broadly bans age discrimination, specifically prohibiting:-
“Statements or specifications in job notices or advertisements of age preference and limitations. An age limit may only be specified in the rare circumstance where age has been proven to be a bona fide occupational qualification (BFOQ) discrimination on the basis of age by apprenticeship programs, including joint labor-management apprenticeship programs; and denial of benefits to older employees. An employer may reduce benefits based on age only if the cost of providing the reduced benefits to older workers is the same as the cost of providing benefits to younger workers”.
Mirror Mirror On the Wall
Who is the fairest of them all? Or at least who is the best positioned to fit into the company culture, positively impact the company’s bottom line and contribute to the company’s growth, welfare and competitiveness? A question many a hopeful jobseeker has on their minds as they diligently piece together what they hope is a competitive CV and many a flustered employer has on his mind as he logs onto a leading job site and searches for the next star candidate. One thing is for sure, with the vast databases, state-of-the-art filtering tools and regional industry experts employers have at their disposal through multi-platform recruitment companies such as www.bayt.com, they are better equipped than ever before to make informed decisions and to make these decisions quickly, accurately and cost-effectively.
Snooze or Lose
Does your company allow for an afternoon siesta? Do you break at midday or follow a straight shift? Are your employees regularly burning the midnight oil working on urgent projects with tight deadlines without breaks?
According to an online survey conducted in July by www.bayt.com, the Middle East’s largest recruitment and career planning company, 84 per cent of 1305 respondents said that a post-lunch nap could boost their performance and concentration. The survey randomly polled people of different cultures, lifestyles and work environments across the Gulf.
Health experts worldwide are united in the belief that sleep deprivation affects both productivity and family life, leading to depression and mental illness.
Around 80 per cent of patients in an informal study conducted by Jebel Ali Hospital in Dubai admitted to encountering stress and depression as a result of sleep deprivation. More than 60 per cent said they did not get enough sleep due to their lifestyle, which included regular socialising, surfing the Internet, improper diet, and excessive nicotine and caffeine intake.
Read more about the survey findings and the medical professional’s recommendations here
Reduce the Guesswork
Are you an employer inundated with CVs? Do you find it increasingly baffling and time-consuming to sort the wheat from the chaff? Do you need a system to consolidate your CV databases and manage your communications with jobseekers?
Let www.bayt.com do the work for you. www.bayt.com offers 3 levels of support for our employers:-
1. Online searches, the bread and butter of our business, remain the fastest and most cost-effective method to access top talent while retaining full control over the search process. The advanced screening and filtering tools are the best in the industry and allow you to sort and screen by 19 criteria including nationality, age, education and career level.
2. Assisted on-line is for employers who prefer some basic top-level professional screening to be conducted by consultants prior to their short-listing activities
3. A premium Executive Search product delivers on retainer based recruiting for senior executives.
So whatever level of involvement you require or prefer of your recruitment services provider, whether it be controlling the entire hiring cycle from the comfort and confines of your desk via our sophisticated tools and databases, or delegating all selection activities to seasoned industry veterans, bayt.com can deliver in a timely, effective and cost-efficient manner.
So Why E-recruitment?
So why e-recruitment?
Believe it or not, in this ripened age of the ever-sacred, platinum moment and in a region where the pace of growth has lately been second only to the height of the mid-day sun, we still get asked why on-line recruitment versus traditional methods. Sometimes the question comes from a seasoned HR veteran who is simply quite bewildered by the new technologies and at other times it is directed by a cynical HR neonate who is quite happy with the traditional methods, thank you very much, and has no time for time-saving (or money-saving) alternatives. And often it’s the candidates themselves who fret getting their hands mired in new technologies and worry about issues ranging from confidentiality to effectiveness, all of which we at www.bayt.com (by listening to you every step of the way) have entirely anticipated and addressed.
So why e-recruitment?
We’ll tell you why and hold your hand every step of the way if you are a newcomer to the e-cruitment arena and are about to post your CV, search jobs, search candidates or advertise a position for the first time.
Simply put, the merits of e-cruitment using a leader in the field such as www.bayt.com are that it is the fastest, easiest, most cost-efficient and most effective way available for employers to find top talent and for jobseekers to find jobs. On top of that, if you are a jobseeker or employer in the current market, it is a medium you cannot afford to live without given the sheer sizes, depth and breadth of reach, growth rates and successes of the giant players whether they be www.bayt.com in the Middle East, or other global players such as www.careerbuilder.com in the USA, www.jobstreet.com in Asia or www.workopolis.com in Canada.
Curtains Up on Bayt Blog
Yes, its finally here and just in the nick of time to announce several important initiatives we will be unrolling in the next few weeks. Welcome to the Bayt.com blog!
Why a blog? Because you asked for it and because we remain ever committed to providing our users with all the tools they need to build a better job and a better life! We hope and anticipate that this will become a forum for us to communicate with you, both jobseekers and employers, on issues that directly pertain to you and for you to communicate with each other on all matters job-related.
To kick-start our dialogue with you, we would like to ask you, our valuable candidates and employers, what you would like to see in this space and how we can make this the most useful interactive forum for employers and jobseekers across the region.
