FY026: Preparing for Success - Evaluating Employment Resources

This report discusses various employment resources available to university students to aid in their job search after graduation. It evaluates online recruitment sites, recruitment agencies, and job fairs, highlighting their respective advantages and disadvantages. The report emphasizes the importance of these resources in helping job seekers identify suitable job profiles based on their skills and knowledge. It also addresses identifying an ideal job, understanding the job description and person specifications, and leveraging available resources to facilitate the job-finding process. The report concludes that employment resources play a vital role in assisting individuals in finding their ideal job profiles.

Preparing for Success at University –
Knowledge & Creativity

Table of Content
 Introduction
 Resources for employment
 Conclusion
 References

Introduction
Employment resources are considered as methods or techniques which are adopted
by a person in order to identify informations about the job. These resources can be
used by a fresher or a experienced person who are generally a job seeker in order to
identify employment opportunities according to their specific skills, abilities and
knowledge. There are several employment resources which an individual can adopt
for identify job vacancy such as company career website, personal contacts, career
centres, libraries, counsellors, social media, training and educational centre, job fair
and many more.

Resources for employment
If a firm want to hire a candidate on a specific job role they will conduct
advertisement on different places so that they able to invite huge numbers of
job seekers. From which company management can select most appropriate
candidates for a particular job profile as well as it will also help an
individual in identify most appropriate job according to their skills,
knowledge and abilities.

Cont.…
From which some most common sources are given below along with their advantages
and disadvantages:-
Online recruitment site/ Job Boards
Job boards are also known as job sites, job website, job portals, employment
website and many more. These specially deal in employment as well as career
development options. Online recruitment site or job boards generally enable
employer to publish job opportunities or offer for a specific position so that they can
select most appropriate candidates.

Cont.…
Advantages
 Cost effective
 Immediate respond
 Identify ideal job
 Direct contact with company
 Cost effective
Disadvantages
 Scam
 Increase competition

Cont.…
Recruitment agencies
Recruitment agencies are considered as outside companies or firm who go as well
as find most appropriate candidates for employer or organization Recruitment
agencies are different from employment agencies. Respective agencies are
generally act as a intermediary among a company who are looking to hire specific
type of job seeker who are looking for employment.

Cont.…
Advantages
 Experts in field
 Fill temporary position
 A professional face
 Use contacts
Disadvantages
 Lack of Trust
 Sometime lack of good
communication
 Selling career their employer
want to hire

Cont.…
Job fair
Job fair is one of the most common resource which used by a job seeker in order to
identify jobs according to their skills, abilities and knowledge. It is conducted at
almost every part around the world as well as it is organised by the group of
organisation so that they firm most suitable candidates. This is generally conducted
by companies in order to hire job seekers bulk or for few candidates in order to fill
specific position that is empty for long time.

Cont.…
Advantages
 Meet multiple employers
 Immediate response
 No partiality
 Cost effective
Disadvantages
 High competition
 Increase in stress
 No proper structure of
interview

Conclusion
By above mentioned points it can be determined that there for job seeking
employment resources plays an essential role because through that they able to find
their ideal job profile according to their skills, abilities and knowledge. There are
numbers of employment identification resources such as social media, company
career website, conferences, libraries, training and educational center, career
center, personal contacts, recruitment agencies, job fair and many more.

References
 Le Breton‐Miller, I. and Miller, D., 2015. The paradox of resource vulnerability:
Considerations for organizational curatorship. Strategic management journal.
36(3). pp.397-415.
 Morgeson, F. P., Brannick, M. T. and Levine, E. L., 2019. Job and work
analysis: Methods, research, and applications for human resource management.
Sage Publications.