Phillips Consulting Ltd, an African leading, Business Management and Human Resources consulting practice has conquered another milestone with the formal launch of a new associate company, Shortlist Nigeria.
With over 20 years combined experience, this online start-up company, Shortlist Nigeria, in partnership with Phillips Consulting, offers recruiters and job seekers simpler and easier ways to recruit.
Speaking at the platform’s launch, Mr. Foluso Williams, chairman, Phillips Consulting Limited, said, “Shortlist is structured to connect candidates and employees directly with each other through this online ‘Talent Pool’ that is created directly by job seekers. Simplicity and ease of use was the guiding principle in designing the powerful the powerful shortlisting tools incorporated into the process. This is a fundamental features that will appeal to users who are currently frustrated by the job-hunting process.”
He further explained, “To be on a global platform where anyone can discover you is wonderful opportunity for jobseekers. To find the very people you need to fill your vacancies on this platform is even better. This is a major shift today’s job hunting and recruitment paradigm”.
According to Williams, candidates can enroll with Shortlist Nigeria free of charge and create a unique, online Shortlist-designed resume that can be shared with anyone outside the website.
An upgraded, paid subscription service, accessible to employers who can search the database is also available.
Mrs. Tayo Leigh, managing director of Shortlist Nigeria, stated, “In our economy today, there are unfortunately more job seekers than there are job positions and we had to remove any impediment to employers in accessing our platform to self-search for great candidates. Another way to look at it is that candidates are really subscribing to recruitment ‘Yellow Pages’, which is now made available to employers free of charge”.
Reflecting the perceived value of service, the promoters added that an initial survey conducted shows that candidates were prepared to pay for more than the current annual subscription fee of N3,000.
“This will cost less than N250 per month, which is a very small investment to make for a life-time of opportunity,” the MD added.
Mr. Richard Leigh, Shortlist’s chief technical officer, explained that one major feature candidates will appreciate, is the avoidance of the need to upload their curriculum vitae.
He said that the Shortlist would generate resume created during the initial sign up, contains; through extensive surveys and research of major global corporate, all the information employers need to make their initial first level selection.
“Shortlist, thus, offers a platform to get headhunted, it avoids the need for job boards as it makes it possible for companies to identify, through this self-service offering, those with suitable profits.
He added that there is no doubt that Shortlist is in for the long haul, especially with the implied focus on all variety of SMEs through to large corporate.
“Recruitment firm, recruitment and HR managers, CEO’s of SMEs and many more recruiters are going to find Shortlist a most welcome initiative to the Nigerian economy, where unemployment is further compounded is further compounded by inequality by opportunities,” the CTO.