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Data Collection
Keeping good records makes sound business sense. It's an opportunity to monitor your performance to see how you're doing, to highlight any trends and to analyse the strengths and weaknesses of your business.
It's important to get a proper and robust system in place from the beginning and to update the information regularly. Most of the brokerages provide figures on a quarterly basis using Excel spreadsheets.
Pre-employment data about candidates will allow for good matching to jobs and will highlight areas where candidates need support.
Capturing data after candidates have been placed into jobs will allow you to:
- Understand what job roles have been filled.
- Analyse the demographic implications.
- Review the savings in recruitment costs.
- Demonstrate tangible success to your employer.
- Develop your brokerage so that you can secure further funding.
What should I record?
You should aim to collect data on the following:
- The number of people employed each quarter.
- Ethnicity – does the ethnic background of those employed reflect the ethnicity of the local community as a whole?
- Postcodes – this will allow you to analyse proximity to job and to see what percentage of 'local' people are being employed.
- Employment status – how many people were unemployed when they applied for a position, how many were long-term unemployed, how many were receiving benefits and what kind?
- Age – are you recruiting across a spread of age groups?
- Gender – are you encouraging male and female jobseekers to consider jobs that have typically been viewed as a male or female preserve?