As a business you may decide to use an agency to fill any positions you may have available, or you may decide to advertise and manage the recruitment process yourself. It is often a good idea to allow people to send their CV’s to you even when you are not advertising a position. This allows you to build up a CV database which you can have a look through prior to advertising for posts.

Every six months or so you may want to contact the people to ask if they are happy to stay on your CV database as situations do change and you may find they are no longer interested in a position within your company.

Having a place on your website where CV’s can be uploaded or application forms completed will make the whole process easier. You can then have these emailed to a dedicated email address so you have them all in one place.

Make sure that when storing CV’s you adhere to the recent GDPR changes and that you have consent to keep them on file.

If you do decide to advertise jobs in the local paper etc, then you could use the email address that you have set up for any recruitment purposes to make the process easier to manage.