Things are looking up for Graduate Recruitment in 2014

“2014 signals a boom in UK Graduate employment opportunities” claims Jason Staniforth – Digital Marketing Specialist for Vacancy Filler Recruitment Software.

“It has previously been understood that you go to university, graduate, and then enter the working world to become exactly what you studied for – the harsh reality is that  this has not been the case for a number of years, and many graduates are finding  out the  hard way. 

Many of the opportunities available will be offered to those who have previously worked for the company, meaning graduates who took advantage of paid internships, industrial placements or vacation work will have the upper hand in the grad-race for paid work in a related sector. 

Technology advances and the rapid uptake of social media vehicles hasn’t gone unnoticed by employers, with an increase in advertising spend being dedicated to social media such as Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn and even YouTube to reach prospect graduate employees, this has resulted in less spend on traditional methods such as graduate directories and sector/ local guides. 

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Skills Testing & Screening - What's new?

Recruiters now have at their disposal a wide variety of screening and skills testing solutions, ranging from competency based testing, aptitude testing and various types of psychometric testing, comments Tony Brookes, Sales Director at Vacancy Filler Recruitment Software. 


Brookes continues: “In addition to that, there is a variety of background screening solutions to verify that the candidate is who they say they are and that they have the experience and qualifications to match...

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Microsoft axes jobs in shift to cater for "mobile-first, cloud-first" world

I read with interest the cull of jobs at Microsoft. The giant has stirred and woken up to the fact that, according to their statistics, Microsoft's operating systems are now only used on 14% of devices, if you take into account smartphones and tablets.  Their new CEO goes on to say that they need to be “mobile-first, cloud-first".

Adopting cloud-based business applications are massively more efficient than using in-house maintained software or taking a halfway house approach of outsourcing the business application to the supplier’s own datacentre. 

At Vacancy Filler we took a fundamental approach to using Amazon Web Services, allowing us to take control of the design, build and installation of our infrastructure hosted by Amazon.  The scale of computing power on tap for us, and our customers, is simply staggering.  We simply do not need the overheads and complexity of building and maintaining our own datacentre. Instead we use Amazon’s resources to build and configure an infrastructure significantly more scalable and robust than any datacentre that we could design.  This gives us the elasticity to flex the service depending on user demand.  

Cloud computing makes our software ubiquitous.  Recruiters, Hiring Managers and Candidates can login and use our system wherever they are, and on any device they choose, without the need to buy or install a Microsoft product.  I guess the recent news at Microsoft is not altogether surprising. 

Tony Brookes