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Talent management company Taleo summarized the results of a 2006 study in the white paper Careers Site Recruiting in the FTSE 100 Companies:\u00a0 A Missed Opportunity<\/a>. \u00a0The key finding:\u00a0 “While almost all FTSE 100 companies (94%) have a careers section on their corporate website, only half (51%) allow candidates to apply online through a structured application form that can support a fully automated end to end recruitment process.”<\/p>\n


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Most of the other companies (43%) reviewed at that time accepted CVs via email, but six did not even have a careers section on their corporate site.\u00a0 So how much has changed in the past three years?<\/p>\n

I reviewed a number of current FTSE sites recently, and noticed several that still seem behind the curve in online recruiting–but it’s hard to assess, because many of the FTSE 100 companies are made up of smaller entities, and those may have a range of different approaches and capabilities in online recruiting.\u00a0 Here’s an example scenario:<\/p>\n

Associated British Foods (ABF) has more than two dozen components (from AB Agri to Westmill Foods), and the ABF corporate site does not provide an overview of careers or links to the individual company career sites.\u00a0 On the ABF Our Companies page<\/a>, I followed the link for Twinings<\/a>-which took me to a map page.\u00a0 Selecting the US I went to a consumer site, where there is nothing about jobs.\u00a0 All the other map links lead to consumer sites, and as far as I can tell from the ones I can either read or roughly translate, still no jobs.\u00a0 So I did a separate search and found a dedicated UK jobs site<\/a> for Twinings, which I think can be reached from the map only if you select the UK.\u00a0 The Twinings jobs site does accept CVs by email but does not have an application form.\u00a0 There is no job search, but all the jobs listed are in the UK, so I’m still not sure how or if it would be possible to seek a job with Twinings in, say, China.<\/p>\n

At two other ABF companies (British Sugar and ACH) it was easier to reach the jobs page, but in both companies, the application process is limited to emailing a resume.\u00a0 GTG did not appear to have a jobs section at all.<\/p>\n

That’s not a complete review–but in terms of a quick look, it seems likely that ABF (taking its constituent companies together) may still be in the “missed opportunity” zone as defined by Taleo.\u00a0 On the other hand, BAE Systems, which is also composed of multiple businesses with worldwide locations, has a well-equipped Careers area<\/a> on the corporate website and does have an online application system.\u00a0 The only confusion is that some business components (e.g., Detica<\/a>) seem to have their own websites with separate Careers sections.<\/p>\n

I’ll be drilling down further on this topic over the next few weeks, to provide additional views. \u00a0Since Taleo did not specify which companies had which gaps, there can’t be an apples-to-apples update.\u00a0 But it should be possible to spot some current best practices, as well as some remaining problem areas.<\/p>\n

(Thanks to Jenny Downing<\/a> for the bear’s-eye view of one day in the life of the FTSE 100.)<\/p>\n


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