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(2000), "PCIF launches low-cost recruitment service on www.pcif.org.uk", Circuit World, Vol. 26 No. 3. https://doi.org/10.1108/cw.2000.21726cab.004
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:Emerald Group Publishing Limited
Copyright © 2000, MCB UP Limited
PCIF launches low-cost recruitment service on www.pcif.org.uk
PCIF launches low-cost recruitment service on www.pcif.org.uk
Keywords: PCIF, Internet, Recruitment, Printed circuit boards
Known as Recruitment 2000, a new service launched by the PCIF aims to help those individuals in the unfortunate position of having been made redundant find appropriate positions within the UK's printed circuit board (PCB), electronic manufacturing services (EMS) and respective supply and design industries. The service is offered free of charge to redundant individuals, while the cost to recruiting companies is substantially lower than that charged by conventional recruitment agencies.
Operation of the service is straightforward. The company making redundancies sends details of the individuals involved to the PCIF which, in turn, contacts these people to discover their precise job requirements/expectations. Other than agreeing to inform the PCIF if and when they are engaged by a company introduced by the PCIF, they are under no obligation to the Federation. The service is entirely free.
The job seekers' details (anonymous at this stage) are posted on the PCIF Web site and published in the Federation's quarterly Circuit Review. Recruiting companies interested in interviewing, or obtaining further details of, candidates, are asked to enter into a contract with the PCIF agreeing to pay the Federation a fee for each person they engage. Charges are just £800 per individual engaged for PCIF member companies; £1,600 for non-member companies.
Commenting on the introduction of Recruitment 2000, PCIF Director Brian Haken said: "This new initiative is intended to help companies that are having to make staff redundant, the individuals involved, and companies in the PCB and EMS sectors looking to recruit appropriately experienced people. Only the recruiting companies pay fees, and these are extremely modest when compared with the '10 per cent of salary' charged by recruitment agencies."