Green Recruiting

GREEN RECRUITIN

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Hiring candidates in an environment- friendly manner.

Aiming to protect the globe. Maximum use of renewable energy. Environment sustainability.

GREEN RECRUITING

Why should a company go green?

1• Increasing employee satisfaction, retention and

productivity.

2• Improving operational efficiency and

effectiveness.

3• Saving energy, water and raw materials.

4• Sheilding yourself from escalating energy and

water prices.

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•Branding the business and differentiating it from the competition.

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•Developing a positive, proactive relationship with local compliance inspectors

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•Reducing pollution, waste and greenhouse gas emissions.

Source : Internet

FACTS..The paper industry

ranks fourth in contributing to green house gas emissions.

Paper accounts for about 70% of a typical official

waste.

Recycling 1 ton of paper saves 17 trees ,enough oil to run the

average car for 1260 miles, enough power for average home for 6 months and 60

pound pollution.

Source : Internet

Green Recruiting Practices

A multitude of computer programs provide ways to reduce the use of paper.

Emailed offer letters, Electronic on boarding documents, Direct-deposit pay checks.

Instead of Wading through stacks of

paper,

Time consuming phone calls,

Recruiters use Online Collaboration

techniques like Instant messenger,

email,social media and online

meetings.

Online Collaboration Techniques

Leveraging social media for new era

Employment

Branding

Virtual Interview

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Leveraging social media for new era Social media makes the recruitment process easier and

environment friendly.

Recruiter can simply sit at their desks, reducing costs both monetarily and environmentally of airplane and car travel etc.,

Hiring a candidate becomes viral the moment the recruiter post an ad in these social networking sites.

Bull Horn’s Survey -almost all of them (98%) are using social recruiting.

LinkedIn97 %

Facebook51 %

Twitter49 %

Google+19.1%

Virtual Interviews Live virtual interviews can cut candidate

travel costs by up to 75%.

Over 74% of the recruiters recruit through virtual Interviews via conference calls or tablet device.

Another 67% believe video screening should replace phone interviews all together, because it works.

Virtual interviews can be done through Skype and

greenjobinterview.com. Greenjobinteview.com is the leader in

conducting live virtual interviews.A re

duction

in carbon

footprint o

f

an

estimated

628 kg of

CO 2 per

interview.

With an average of 226 virtual interviews per month, the carbon footprint reduction is the equivalent of 456 cars being taken off

the road.

Source : Internet

In just a few short years,

organizations and candidates will never again travel to

meet each other without first conducting a face-to-face live

virtual interview.

Employment Branding

Companies leverage the stickiness of

content marketing and reach of social

media to circulate powerful corporate

messaging.

Employment Branding campaign can

be used to find and filter talent in a

way that will have only the most ideal

candidates.

The earlier and more frequently a company

engages in Employment Branding best

practices, the sooner they’ll find themselves

saving money on recruiting, while

increasing their talent pool in the process!

Best Practice• Cost savings related to

expatriate hiring including air

travel, accommodation and

time.

Economy

• Low employee turnover rate-

helps in cross cultural

adjustment that improves

employee's motivation, self

esteem and productivity.

Society• In 3 recruitment campaigns ,

approx 112.5 metric tons of

CO2 that equals to 10 people's

carbon footprint for the whole

year was stopped from being

released.

• Less use of paperEnvironment

If consumption levels continue to go unchecked, by 2050

we will need

8.5 planets to absorb our carbon dioxide emissions,

6 planets for steel.

3.4 planets to sustain the cement supply.

3.5 planets to meet timber demand.

Source: Emirates Environment Group published in the Gulf News April 01, 2010.

Conclusion

In forth coming years there would be

a situation where the organization

those who do not implement green

policies or change the way they are

going to lose their employees to the

companies that offer incentives for

buying hybrid cars, onsite

farming ,green fuel and solar power.

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