February 2012 Archives

Monster.co.uk has announced a partnership with Marussia Formula 1, and will recruit for a variety of roles at the team.

Four of these roles will be specialised opportunities, advertised as "Cool Jobs," and will aim to attract the most qualified applicants from all over the wrld.  As part of the partnership, the Marussia F1 Team will also use Monster's Talent Management Suite throughout the recruitment lifecycle, and to help target top talent.
 
The first of the four global "Cool Jobs" is now available, with the team looking for an aerodynamicist to play a vital role in the development of Marussia's next generation F1 race car. The jobs will be based in the Marussia F1 Team's new technology centre located in Banbury, England.

In addition to the globally advertised 'Cool Jobs,' up to 40 other permanent opportunities will be available in the coming months to job seekers throughout the EU.

Katie Allen, Head of HR, Marussia F1 Team, added:  "The partnership with Monster will enable us to significantly increase our talent reach quickly and cost-effectively - which is vital in the F1 recruitment arena. As a small F1 team, we also look forward to using the Talent Management Suite to help us manage our recruitment and resourcing plans in the most professional and efficient way, whilst ensuring that more of our HR focus can be directed at development activities for the business and our people ."

Ted Gilvar, executive vice president, global chief marketing officer, Monster, noted "We're thrilled to be working the Marussia F1 Team. We're confident that our global reach, combined with our unparalleled job matching technology will help the team find the unique talent they need to succeed." 

Monster and the Marussia F1 Team will also offer fans from select countries the opportunity to win the chance to shadow the Marussia F1 Team blogger for a key race and experience all of the action first-hand. Winning entrants will help report back on all of the excitement - both trackside and behind the scenes.  More details will be available soon. 

We've highlighted a few recruitment virals here on the Hire Escape, but this one is probably the best we've seen so far.

It's a recruitment video for Twitter, which apparently grew out of a "hack week" the organisation recently held. One of the week's tasks was to produce the "worst / best recruitment video ever", and we've got to admit, they succeeded.



This is great, and yet as well as being genuinely funny, it works as a recruitment tool. It conveys a culture and an employer brand that people will want to be associated with, and we're sure it'll encourage a lot of people to want to work there.

And even if it doesn't boost their recruitment, it at least proves they've got some very "gifted" people working for them...

The Guardian has reported today that high street retailer Waterstones has withdrawn from the controversial unpaid work placement programme that has seen the Department for Work and Pensions facing a claim that has breached the Human Rights Act.

The scheme involves major high street chains taking on job seekers for unpaid placements which can last for weeks. It hit the headlines recently after Cait Reilly, an unemployed graduate who embarked on a placement with Poundland, brought a case against the DWP claiming that the scheme was illegal since it equated to "forced labour".

Waterstones' move is a bold one, and it will be interesting to see whether any other major chains follow suit. The Guardian claims that brands currently taking part in this sort of scheme include Tesco, Sainsbury's, Argos, Asda, Maplin, TK Maxx, Matalan, Primark, Holland & Barrett, Boots, McDonald's, Burger King and the Arcadia group of clothes stores.

Waterstones' consumer and employer brands will presumably receive a boost thanks to its actions, which could be said to outweigh the benefits of receiving some free labour out of the scheme, and it will be interesting to see whether any of these big chains choose to do the same.