Search.co.uk applauds initiative to improve approach to local government recruitment in Scotland

Search.co.uk has praised local authorities in Scotland for harnessing the benefits of online recruitment through their adoption of a new jobs portal and a partnership trial with commercial job boards in Scotland.

Search.co.uk has welcomed continued moves by UK government bodies to step into the 21st century with the adoption of online recruitment procedures.

Recent months have seen several government agencies switch from traditional newspaper advertising to listing available scottish jobs online, with the Convention of Scottish Local Authorities (COSLA) being at the forefront following the creation of the ‘myjobscotland‘ portal and trial advertising agreements with leading Scottish recruitment websites, including Search.co.uk/Jobs . Praising the Convention for responding to a fundamental shift in recruitment practices, Scotland’s leading jobs site believes that the move will deliver a number of key advantages.

“Recruitment is not a science, it’s an objective and logical process when done properly and is all about matching jobseekers with the right skills to the right jobs. Entering into the digital age can, however, make the process smoother and easier, attracting a wider selection of jobseekers and improving candidate selection processes and timescales,” said Peter Gillespie, Managing Director of Search.co.uk.

“It’s not simply about making savings on advertising budgets. There are greater benefits to be gained; notably changes to working practices which will free up staff and allow them to focus on more value adding work whilst also enabling local government to compete with the private sector for quality staff, particularly in sectors where there are skills shortages.”

The progress made by COSLA’s launch of the myjobscotland portal and the trial deal to post all Cosla member vacancies across 6 leading Scottish job sites, including Search.co.uk/Jobs, means that local governments can measure and implement a more effective use of their resources to deliver improved performance, by reducing advertising costs and competing more effectively for the right candidates. The all-council recruitment website, seeks to maximise the benefits of both online advertising and technology to improve the quality of responsesreceived by the 32 councils offering jobs in Edinburgh, Glasgow, Aberdeen, Inverness and the rest of Scotland.

Improved efficiency is one of the driving forces behind the newly created application and online advertising trial. Cosla’s new online recruitment function will reduce the costly, long-winded process of advertising in print outlets, harnessing the latest innovative online technologies to make it a more painless, speedy and cost efficient exercise.

Jobs in Aberdeen – Are Future Prospects on the Up

Looking for a job in Aberdeen or the Aberdeenshire area – Are the future prospects now on the up?

Aberdeen, ‘the granite city’ offers extensive job and career opportunities across a diverse range of industries and services. The oil and gas capital of Scotland and the country’s third largest city, Aberdeen is also a major administrative centre with job opportunities in oil & gas and related industries; education, sea port and ferry trades etc.

Although Aberdeen has suffered in the recent recession along with the rest of the UK, it’s dependence on the oil and gas sector has protected it from the worst effects of the downturn. Now, local business leaders are predicting a brighter future with a return to greater levels of confidence in employers and businesses in the Aberdeen area in terms of future recruitment and employment prospects, ahead of the rest of Scotland.

The Sunday Herald newspaper, on 6th September 2009, quoted Tom Smith, who heads Aberdeen City and Shire Economic Future (ACSEF) as saying, Aberdeen has “turned the corner” and continued, “I think the picture now is very upbeat, which is not something I would have been able to say even a few months ago. A variety of indicators, from house prices and various general business confidence measures, show that Aberdeen has turned the corner, and things are starting to move forward again”. This can only bode well for prospects for jobs in Aberdeen and the surrounding area.

The wider Aberdeenshire area contains a large number of companies supplying into the oil and gas sector, alongside more traditional agricultural, tourism and food production industries. So, if your looking for jobs in oil and gas, jobs in tourism and leisure or jobs in food production or agriculture, Aberdeenshire has a lot to offer – and not just the job opportunities, but the lifestyle also.

Whatever your job in Aberdeenshire, you’ll have access to a fantastic range of recreational facilities and services in Aberdeen and the surrounding areas or Deeside, Speyside and Morayshire.

Selecting ‘Jobs in Aberdeen’ on Search.co.uk/jobs, covers jobs in the city of Aberdeen and in the surrounding Aberdeenshire towns, including jobs in Peterhead, jobs in Fraserburgh, jobs in Inverurie, jobs in Ellon, jobs in Forres and jobs in Stonehaven.

Although the offshore jobs sector looks like it will continue to decline in future due to greater offshore automation, the smart money is on a return to greater job opportunities in Aberdeen and the surrounding Aberdeenshire area. So, to start looking for your new job in Aberdeen on Search.co.uk/jobs now, just click below!

Jobs.search.co.uk/Aberdeen/