For anyone looking for a job within a dental surgery, dental recruitment agencies represent the most obvious route to achieving success. For dental surgeries looking for dental professionals the most obvious and traditional route is also to advertise through dental recruitment agencies. But there are two main problems with this solution. Effectively the two real issues are time and money.
For those looking for dental vacancies in the UK the usual route is to enrol with a dental recruitment agency, provide your details and CV, and then sit back and wait. Depending upon the networking ability of the agency you could hear something back in a few days, or many weeks or months could go by. The trouble is that agencies have little motivation for working for you specifically, and they may well find themselves filling vacancies the easiest way, with less regard for individual needs.
With an agency you have no idea of what's happening, and you have little or no control over your success. Once you have enrolled and submitted your documentation then there's little you can do to expedite the process. But compared to posting copies of your CV to all local dental surgeries in the hope of a job being available, it's the easiest and best choice people have had, until now.
It's much the same picture from the point of view of the surgeries themselves. Because if they have a vacancy to fill it will be important for them to fill it quickly, and with the best person for the job. This necessarily means approaching dental recruitment agencies, but this can be an expensive process, costing hundreds or even thousands of pounds a year in recruitment agency fees. This expense can eventually limit the number of agencies surgeries approach, and the length of time adverts are placed with them. It also often means that dental surgeries will request details of a much lower number of potential candidates, in order to save both time and further fees.
Recruitment agencies themselves are often swamped with dental vacancies across the UK, as well as reams of applications from potential candidates. The process of doing background checks, qualification verifications and entering data into the computer as well as cross referencing candidates with available jobs and sending out letters of communication to both parties is time consuming. Time and money have been the real problems for all parties. But today a new solution is available which instantly solves both problems, removing the issue of time and removing the problem of money.
The internet has introduced a great many excellent ways for businesses to communicate both with each other and with clients, and many of the technologies have become popular with the general public too. With networking sites such as Facebook and Twitter more and more people are realising just how easy it can be to reach tie right people quickly. This concept has now resulted in the UK's first, and currently the only, dental network for dental professionals. This new facility has already had quite an impact on the way in which dental professionals and dental surgeries go about finding each other.
The new dental network is a simple concept, but it's through this simplicity that its strength lies. Dental professionals need only create a free profile and upload their CV, creating a profile page which is then publicly available. No personal identifying information is displayed, so information such as name, address, current employer and photographs are all hidden.
Dental surgeries can also register for free, and can either publish dental vacancies in the UK, or browse the profile pages of dental professionals, searching for specific skills or qualifications. Dental professionals can then either browse available dental vacancies, or wait to be approached by a surgery. In either case, if the dental professional is happy to, they can allow the surgery access to their identifying information, and proceed with an interview. With no fees and with a more direct approach allowing surgeries and professionals to reach each other directly rather than through a third party, dental recruitment agencies may well become a thing of the past.
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