The results of the MCI Direct Hire 2014 SA HR Recruitment trend survey are in. This survey ran for just over 30 days and received a massive 1263 responses from HR professionals across the country. Once again making this survey the largest of it’s kind to ever be conducted in South Africa.
60% of organisations do not primarily make use of recruitment agencies to fill their requirements
46% of respondents have between 1 & 5 recruitment agencies on their preferred suppliers list
66% of organisations use social media to recruit candidates
69% of organisations use LinkedIn, 23% Facebook, 5% GooglePlus and 4% Twitter
59% of organisations use Print Media to advertise vacancies
70% of organisations use job portals to advertise vacancies
53% of organisations use a recruitment management system
88% of organisations attempt to source and place candidates internally before approaching recruitment companies
53% of organisations rely on internal staff to refer candidates to HR for hiring consideration
46% of organisations have an employee candidate referral rewards program in place
74% of organisations have a careers section on their website
64% of organisations had an annual staff turnover rate of less than 10%