RECRUITMENT\\\ More than just a CV-pusher


Your next career move is on the Internet


Since the downturn there has been a growing realisation by recruitment companies that clients expect them to show added value in their services with emphasis on building relationships, says industry recruitment specialist, Fowarding Jobs. They are looking for more than


Over the course of the last ten years the internet has taken over as the main source for jobseekers looking for the latest career opportuni- ties. Over 90% percent of UK Freight Industry placements are from candidates sourced from the leading internet job boards. We are seeing more and more TV advertising campaigns from the generic sites in order to attract more candidates. The way organisations re- cruit is changing and if you want to attract the best candidates you need keep up with times.


just a CV pusher - someone who throws CVs at them and hopes to get an interview out of it. There is a move for recruiters to become almost a business partner. The successful agency is always


looking for innovative ways to differentiate themselves from the crowd – just as Forwarding Jobs is doing. We have taken on the challenge


been the signing up of the world’s second largest freight forwarder – Kuehne and Nagel - who saw the value and savings that would be made using this revolutionary industry product. We offer them agency consultancy services, with Account Management dedication – for job board prices. The challenge facing many of


of our clients, especially in human resources, is how to streamline


The biggest problem is that as most sites are generic that they only deliver on average 10% of the time. This is why most leading agencies use all of the top ten generic job boards in order to guarantee client delivery.


forwardingjobs.com – has seen a massive uptake since it launched a few weeks ago and in the space of a few weeks has at- tracted over 1,000 candidates. Four major freight operators have now placed their vacancies on the site – Expeditors, WTA, UPS and WFS - and there are now over 300 jobs advertised on the site, prob- ably more than double the number of freight-specific jobs on any of the general sites. The number of job applications doubled in August compared with July, even though August is traditionally a very slack month.


I Sncdustry-specific sites are the most likely way way forward. Our own site -


Skills for Logistics (SfL) and The Logistics Guild formally launched the Military Work Placement heme on 8 November. The pilot scheme offers 1,000 people eaving the military fully-funded, wo-week work placements with quality


civilian logistics


organisations. Skills for Logistics has received £1.14 million of government funding to deliver the pilot programme. The launch, at The Imperial


War Museum in London, was


As one leading employer told us, the advantage of industry-specific sites is that the applicants they get are much better aligned to their needs – there is no need to spend time and money filtering out the perhaps five out of six jobseekers with no experience of the indus- try whatsoever.


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all types of freight forwarding, warehousing driving and operative work, from the shop floor to all levels of management.


In time, we expect that the site will become a gauge of the health of the freight industry job market, and candidates would even be able to use it to check whether their salary levels are keeping pace with the average in their area or sector. It would also give a degree of trans- parency to the jobs market; unlike agencies, we have no interest in hiding the names of potential employers – or inflating salary levels.


The state of the UK economy, environmental challenges and a looming skills gap are among the cIhallenges facing the UK logistics


believ that, increasingly, most jobs in the industry will be filled through websites like this – leaving perhaps the 20% most specialist and supply chain sector according o a monograph by Hull University usiness School’s Professor David


positions to be filled through headhunting s rvices. I also see internet recruitment in the industry going global in the next few years. t We are planning to launch forwardingjobs.com in the Netherlands next year but we have already had a massive response from Dutch B and belgian job-seekers applying for UK jobs, and they are going a long way towards bridging the sales skills gap that has existed in this country, despite the recession. Professor


management professionals with over 9,000 members. Professor Grant recognises that once a world manufacturing powerhouse,


Grant. Grant, authored who the is


director of the school’s Logistics Institute,


paper


for the Council of Supply Chain Management Professionals for the Global Perspectives Series that now includes monographs on 17 countries, including the UK. CSCMP, based in Lombard


Illinois, is a professional association of supply chain


the UK, despite


being the third largest economy in Europe, has since come to rely heavily on its service industries - including the £67.5 billion logistics industry - to contribute to its £1,435 billion Gross Domestic Product. The logistics sector grew by


almost 10% during 2009/10, and currently employs 2.3 million people in 196,000 companies, but according to Professor Grant, while continued growth in the sector is predicted for the next two years, the main issue is the unknown


David Grant


length of the economic recovery. While the UK’s domestic


logistics and supply chain networks


and systems rank amongst the world’s top ten for


Key Personnel: Simon Neale


Chris Tissier Kelly Hatton


Underpaid, undervalued and under trained – the UK logistics industry in 2012


efficiency and effectiveness, an ageing workforce, reduced training by smaller firms and a lack of appreciation by government and general population of the importance of the sector are a challenge. Professor Grant concluded:


“Such an impactful industry on the UK economy should be viewed as making the valuable contribution that it does to society. There is a real need for the public to gain a better understanding of the vital role logistics play in UK business. Road freight is not just something that ‘has to be tolerated’ by an impatient motorist driving behind a heavy goods vehicle.”


Secretary Stephen Hammond. Mr Hammond described the logistics industry as “the backbone of businesses up and down our country and it needed talented, hard workers. “The military have exactly the


sort of transferable skills that can drive this crucial sector forward,” he said. Current vacancies include


– embraced the wind of change and created a product which genuinely offers added-value services with emphasis on building relationships with our clients and assisting them throughout the recruitment process. One of our success stories has


greatly reduce costs – which can fluctuate significantly at local level, from branch to branch having separate agreements with different agencies. Larger companies are looking implement strategies


to in


which to change the culture of recruitment of branches acting independently – to that of a more central, cohesive administration, whereby the HR department is able to better control the recruitment process in cost and time terms. Forwarding Jobs has


understood the needs of the Clients and the additional work placed on the department (usually


Logistics gains military might the recruitment process and


HR) tasked with controlling the recruitment process. They require not only a recruitment service that understands the freight and supply chain industry, but who will take control of much of the recruitment process – assisting with marketing the roles, personally vetting candidates and only putting forward the most suitable ones each time. Recruitment issues faced


are not just based in the UK – but internationally, which is why Forwarding Jobs plans to open up offices abroad with the Netherlands being the first, in 2013.


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