Employment and its Types

An increasing number of companies throughout the world are using staffing and recruitment services because it is getting progressively more challenging to locate workers with the right qualifications when they are needed. Predicting how many employees and specific skills you need to increase or improve production or sustain supply is also a difficult task. The decision to employ a new person can impact on productivity, morale, costs, and the service quality of your company.

There are many myths, misconceptions, and laws surrounding the different types of hired workers. Adding to the confusion, the employee’s responsibility varies with each type. Following is a brief overview of the different types of employment so that both the employee and the employer can get an idea of what to expect from each other:

Full-time employment is the typical employment situation scenario which involves working for a specific company or person, and the following things usually characterize the work:

-          Specific hours, usually eight hours per day (give or take) or a specific shift

-          A specific location

-          A specific title with a job description or assigned responsibilities

-          Payment on a weekly, bi-weekly, or monthly basis

-          Paid vacation time

-          In some cases, benefits such as health and dental care are provided

-          Other benefits such as training, education support, pension, etc. may be provided

-          Reimbursement for business-related expenses.

-          The employer makes deductions for income tax, employment insurance, etc.

With an employee, you can determine when, where, and how you want something done. Also, intellectual property that employees create belongs to your company. Because you hire employees for the long term, they have time to get to know your business and your customers very well. Committed, dependable employees can often be relied upon to manage the business during the owner’s absence.

Part-time work is a lot like full-time employment with of course, reductions in everything from hours worked to pay and benefits. Anything less than a full-time schedule falls in the part-time category, even, for example, working 36 hours instead of a full 40. Hiring a staff member on part-time basis is a great way to find out about an employee’s performance before making a long-term commitment.

Contract work involves a specific term of work, often on a project basis. Contractors will agree to a fixed term (two months, six months, a year, etc.) and generally work at the client’s location and with the client’s equipment. Contractors set their own rate, which is then agreed upon (or negotiated) by the company who hires them. Contractors are generally responsible for:

-          Finding their own contract work

-          Choosing what to work on

-          Providing the required expertise (training not provided)

-          Fulfilling the terms of their signed contracts

-          Paying their own taxes

Using a contractor allows for flexibility in expanding and shrinking your work force based on work load. Hiring a contractor for a specific time period or project makes it easier to accommodate fluctuating or periodic bursts of activity. Contractors offer extensive specialist skills to meet specific needs of a project or role within the organization. By using a contractor, you avoid the costs associated with having a permanent employee.

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Recruiting the Online Way

Online recruitment offers recruiters one of the most powerful and cost-effective ways to recruit staff for an organization. Success in online recruitment depends very little on the vagaries of the internet and very much on careful planning and a clear recruitment strategy. Online recruitment, e-recruitment, or web-based recruitment is the use of online technology to attract and source candidates and aid the recruitment process. What this usually means is the use of a company’s own website, a third-party job site or job board, a CV database, search engine marketing or social media platforms to fill vacancies. The emergence of Information, communication and technology has necessitated the need for professionally qualified and talented people in the Information technology (IT) sector. The astounding sector growth in recent years has created a demanded for personnel at various operational levels, from the tech geniuses to the routine maintenance staff. As the reach of IT is not confined to any particular industry, the sector overlaps with all other sectors including banking, finance, accounting, insurance, legal, etc. The industry also encompasses various fields including voice processing units, telephone technology, wireless technology, cellular technology, satellite communication systems etc. 

The careers area of a corporate website is one of the most-visited areas of a website. With this in mind, the use of a careers area in a company’s own website as an online recruitment resource is now a common practice for many. In its most basic form, the careers area is often simply a listing of vacancies in your company with details of how to apply etc. However, many companies invest in more extensive careers areas where in addition to their job vacancies they can also promote their company as a place to work, outline the company ethos and culture, detail employee benefits, feature “day in the life” articles about typical employees, have recruitment videos and even online recruitment fairs.

For job seekers, job sites make searching for jobs much easier. Rather than having to trawl hundreds of employer websites, job seekers can find lots of vacancies in one place. Job sites and job boards will usually provide daily emails of new jobs, Twitter updates, RSS feeds of new opportunities, or SMS’s of new vacancies. Most job sites and job boards allow job seekers to create online profiles and/or upload their CVs so that recruitment agencies and employers can view them. Job sites also provide other services to job seekers such as careers advice, web forums, salary surveys etc.

For recruiters, job boards offer an easy and cost-effective way to reach active candidates. Recruiters simply upload their vacancies and publish them on the job board for candidates to find. Many job boards now also offer simple candidate management tools and resources to help make a success of job posting. Online recruitment offers clear advantages over traditional recruitments methods. At the same time, however, one must remember that it is still recruitment. The fact that it is cheaper and quicker than other forms of recruitment does not change anything. No matter what size your company, make sure that you have the best possible recruitment process in place before you begin. If you do, you will have a much better chance of online recruitment success.

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Vertex IT Solutions Reports a Long Awaited Jump in Hiring

Vertex IT Solutions, the leading recruitment, training and placement firm for skilled professionals in the Information technology industry, recently announced that according to its research, the IT industry may finally be starting its recovery from the economic downturn. Results of their most recent Industry Insight survey show a positive outlook and an increased willingness to hire. The survey report identifies increases in hiring which may be a sign that the economy as a whole may be turning. Optimism regarding sales is on the rise which further fuels the willingness to hire.

According to Keith Jeffcoat, one of the Directors at Vertex IT Solutions, “It is a very good sign that companies have started to hire talented individuals once again. Essentially this signifies that more people that are working, and the more goods and services they purchase then wheels of the economy start to rotate once again at high speed. Then the more people start to purchase goods and services (and pay mortgages), the more positive the feedback loop and a faster sustained growth. We are also constantly keeping an eye out and monitoring any possible negative news about the slowdown again; currently this is predicted to happen at the end of 2012 because of the recent GDP contractions in the UK, USA and Japan. But positive news is critical at this time to help build economic momentum.”

He further added, that the most recent survey indicates more positive business trends such as:

·         70% of companies surveyed reported a profitable year so far. This represents an increase of nearly 23% increase over last year.

·         The number of companies reporting a decrease in sales or no change remained approximately the same as compared to last year.

·         The vast majority of respondents indicated that hiring levels will remain the same or increase.

About Vertex

http://www.vertex-it-solutions.com/  has been at the forefront of I.T. Recruitment for over 10 years. Our consultant’s knowledge has been developed along with our database since the late 1990’s. Over the past decade we have made it our goal to build up a huge amount of knowledge from customers and consultants around the business issues and development requirements involved when enhancing I.T. systems. Whether this is Microsoft, Oracle, Java, or related B.I. technologies or enhancing business processes.

This enables us to pass to you our consultative approach to resourcing aimed at your organisational needs. We believe this is what separates Vertex from the majority of self-claimed I.T. recruitment specialists. We are corporate members of REC and individual members of the Institute of Recruitment Professionals. We provide Contract and Permanent resources across the EMEA region for the full lifecycle of any project and maintenance thereafter.

Simplifying IT Recruitment and Training

IT has come a long way from the initial days and continues to evolve with new innovations with every passing day. Since IT is continuously going through numerous phases of technological innovations,  recruitment in IT too has evolved and recruitment in IT now requires the presence and support of specialist people to help in recruiting candidates with a specific talent.  For example, SAP, Oracle, Business Intelligence, Development, Designing and Analysis etc. This is because of the fact that Information Technology has now been divided and sub divided into many specialized categories and every person is now required to specialize in one or two specific areas. The specialized people are required to work on specific technology verticals to produce optimum results and applications that support the growth of the organization and business.

There are numerous service driven recruitment agencies that work towards providing quality recruitment services to the industry. The need for these recruitment agencies was felt and addressed because companies needed to concentrate on the work at hand rather than spending their time on finding the right person for the right role or job. These IT recruitment and training agencies keep a sharp eye out on the changing strategies and changes in the world of technology and adopt their approach accordingly. The agencies keep working towards launching new initiatives to attract talent by combining fresh elements and initiating activities that can benefit both the organization and the candidate.

Typically, recruitment and employment in the Information Technology industry is categorized into two main areas of Development and Support. Development is generally perceived as developing or creating something new from scratch or modifying an existing product to meet new standards of requirements and use. Support on the other hand encompasses providing after sales support, troubleshooting or providing help in installing or maintaining the existing applications, programs or software. The concept of support is usually limited to technical support in one form or another.

IT recruitment and training agencies need to pay attention to changing business trends and ethics to better serve the companies for which they are hiring. This helps them in delivering highest levels of customer satisfaction via hiring top talent. To deliver top talent they need to be highly focused on the requirements communicated by the company and the requirements of the candidates. Typically, IT recruitment and training agencies are required to work on practically every niche of contract recruitment, permanent recruitment, end to end solutions and short term business solutions of recruitment and training.

IT recruitment agencies play a very important role in discovering budding talent and placing people often on an urgent basis. These recruitment agencies have access to a nationwide database and references of top performing IT professionals and that makes them a hub for talent and existing vacancies. Usually the recruitment agencies first have a meeting with the IT project management or Project Directors to understand their exact staffing requirements and then they match the requirements with their database of IT professionals.

There are many different IT recruitment and training agencies that claim to have the best talent but it is very important to first verify the credentials and claims by them before handing them the sensitive responsibility of hiring competent individuals for the company. It is therefore very important to partner with an agency that understands technology and technological recruitments.

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Vertex Takes Over Web Development Recruitment

Vertex IT Solutions, the leading recruitment, training and placement firm for skilled professionals in the Information technology industry, has started to offer an exceptional service to its clients unlike any other generalist IT recruitment agency, in the form of focused web development recruitment. Each of the recruitment consultants at Vertex has worked in this area of the recruitment market for a number of years and understands the ever changing pressure of the industry.

According to Chief Recruitment Officer at Vertex IT Solutions, Tony Cook, “The benefits of working with a specialist web development recruitment agency such as Vertex includes a detailed understanding of the market, up to date information on current salaries relative to technical experience, bespoke technical assessment geared entirely to web development and access to high calibre candidates. As a specialist, Vertex already has spent years creating links with potential candidates through face to face interaction and via our web portal.”

Maintaining his statement, he further added, “Vertex is focused on web development recruitment by having a thorough understanding of recent developments in technology and industry trends. Our consultants are perfectly placed to source candidates with the right skills for their clients’ businesses and will only present appropriately skilled candidates. Using our specialist web design recruitment services, companies will get access to the best possible candidates whilst saving time. Interview schedules can be cut in half. Only the best candidate will be put forward and negotiations will be handled by somebody trained to get the company the appropriate person they need on time and in budget.”  

About Vertex

http://www.vertex-it-solutions.com/  has been at the forefront of I.T Recruitment for over 10 years. Our consultant’s knowledge has been developed along with our database since the late 1990’s. Over the past decade we have made it our goal to build up a huge amount of knowledge from customers and consultants around the business issues and development requirements involved when enhancing I.T systems. Whether this is Microsoft, Oracle, Java, or related B.I technologies or enhancing business processes.

This enables us to pass to you our consultative approach to resourcing aimed at your organisational needs. We believe this is what separates Vertex from the majority of self-claimed I.T recruitment specialists. We are corporate members of REC and individual members of the Institute of Recruitment Professionals. We provide Contract and Permanent resources across the EMEA region for the full lifecycle of any project and maintenance thereafter.