(This is a series of evaluations of St Louis Technical Staffing Websites. Editorial policy is here. Comments are the responsbility of their owners, but will be edited or deleted if they use profanity or are anonymous. We're attempting to provide a spot for open, honest dialog and suggest improvements to the local sites).
Today's Website will be Teksystems.
1) Design and Configuration: The website has the look and feel of something from the 90's, but it has all of the correct information on it. Made from a template, but an effective one, this has the look of a functional site. The map is a nice touch, and the contact information is prevalent everywhere. The jobs are available on the front page without going to another page, which is a nice touch, and the corporate information on the left side is enough to let you know this is a national company with national resources.
2) Negatives: This site looks like it was designed by web developers with limited access to recruiters in the field. This clearly is a catch-all site not intended to drive significant numbers of the high-quality talent to the local recruiting team.
3) Resume Submittal: There is a line at the bottom of the jobs that allows you to submit resumes to thingamajob.com. What this means is you enter information blindly into a national database and hope someone calls you in the search.
4) Jobs: Job orders for St Louis are located at the bottom of the page, which allows for contraction and expansion based on volume and is probably an automated function from their ATS. The recruiter enters a job, and the job pops up on the site. Convenient to enter, but it's dependent on job descriptions that can easily be found at Monster, Careerbuilder and other sites. What's the benefit of applying to the web system instead of applying through a job board? None.
5) Client Information: There is a contact form and plenty of marketing speak, but no thought was put into why the local St Louis office should be contacted.
6) Personal Touch: There is an online chat function, which is curious, because it doesn't connect to a local recruiter. This actually isn't a bad idea - and if it gave you live access to a real recruiter it would be a real boon. The problem is there is no personal information or a sense that the local office is involved in the local community.
7) Other services: No information is provided to help a candidate. No user groups, no news, no website links - just another place to send a resume if you're not particular about who you send it to. A salary calculator and a labor cost calculator are linked under services, but both calculator require you to forward a lot of personal information to Teksystems. It's actually a form, not a calculator. That's not driving business
Grade: D.
The site does what it is supposed to do, which is provide a local website that announces the presence of Teksystems in St Louis and lets candidates submit resumes. Nothing is provided in the way of alternate information or a reason to use this site as opposed to another.
