"This is the second consecutive year that we have run this survey," commented Rhett Davies, partner at MCI. "The results of the survey clearly indicate that HR departments and professionals of corporate South Africa have become extremely proactive and are managing the bulk of their recruitment internally. Interestingly though, there was an increase of 6% in the number of corporates utilising agencies as their first port of call. This year's results also showed a remarkable increase of 5% in the number of organisations utilising Social Media to recruit staff, a statistic that is in line with the international trend."
Some of the highlights from the 2013 survey were as follows:
Overall, recruitment agencies and internal referrals gave the best quality candidates; whilst print media gave the worst, observations that were identical to those made last year.
The full results of the 2013 survey can be found at http://bit.ly/hrsurveyresults2013.
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