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When it comes to dental vacancies, UK dental professionals may well have an easy time of it you may think. That is, unless you happen to either be a dental professional or you happen to run a dental surgery.
Because whilst the number of dental vacancies in the UK is rising at the moment, and remains at a pretty healthy figure, and the number of dental professionals is more than sufficient to offer surgeries the pick of the bunch, the reality is that even today surgeries are having to wait weeks to fill a position, and dental professionals have sometimes found themselves waiting weeks or months. So what is the holdup?
With all of the jobs and vacancies, and the number of keen professionals looking for a new position or to further their career, what is holding the whole process up? Surely in today's world of internet technology and computerised systems it should be easy to coordinate the surgeries and the professionals. The truth is, however, that although the world of dentistry has seen a massive increase in the use of technology, offering patients an unrivalled range of new treatments, more comfortable treatments, more effective procedures and more natural looking results in less time than ever, technology has been severely overlooked as far as filling the number of dental vacancies in the UK.
Dental recruitment agencies have not entirely been to blame for this oversight, because they have been working hard to try to coordinate the number of surgeries looking for new professionals, and those professionals looking for specific openings. But often it can be a case of not seeing the wood for the trees, excuse the clich. But with agencies spending so much time trying to coordinate the vacancy filling, there has been a distinct oversight as far as technology is concerned.
Today hardly a day goes by when we don't all hear at least one person mention a social networking site such as Twitter, Facebook or LinkedIn. These are internet sites which allow people with similar goals, business experiences, qualifications, likes, dislikes or localities to meet up in the virtual world. Social networking is not new, but the fact that it has become so naturally and completely integrated into daily life is, yet this opportunity has been overlooked by dental recruitment agencies.
Until, that is, now. Because finally there is a new social networking site, specifically for dental surgeries and dental professionals. The new site offers for the first time an opportunity for dental surgeries to both advertise positions, without having to pay the exorbitant and sometimes prohibitive costs charged by the dental recruitment agencies, as well as actively searching for likely candidates with the right qualifications, skills and experience.
Just being able to actively search suitable dental professionals helps speed the whole process up, but from the point of view of the surgeries, being able to advertise dental vacancies in the UK without having to pay thousands in fees is a real advantage. For dental professionals there is an advantage too, as for the first time they are able to publish an online profile which can be accessed by dental surgeries anywhere in the UK, as well as offering them the chance to actively browse thousands of available positions, applying for them immediately if they sound suitable.
This opportunity is a clear example of how modern technology and trends in communication are helping to change the traditional way in which vacancies are filled and careers furthered. If this new dental networking site can show how successful it is at filling dental vacancies in the UK and improving the service offered by traditional dental recruitment agencies then perhaps we will start to see more industries follow this example, helping to make a real difference in recruitment.
