Though not one of the required core segments, the company profile of the recruiting company should be included where available. Many vacancies come from the source without much information or with too little information about the recruiting company.
Where possible, you are expected to visit the company’s website if they have one and look for the company profile among its links. Here’s how this can be done:
Sometimes an email address for online application or enquiries is provided in the vacancy. The editor can tell if this email is for the company’s official website or if it’s a free public email address. The free addresses include those that are @yahoo.com, @hotmail.com, @gmail.com, @rocketmail.com, @ymail.com, @aol.com etc.
For company email addresses, the part after the “@” sign may be the same or similar to the company name e.g. @gabrosventures.com, @mtnonline.com, @gloworld.com, @kennethcole.com, @truemedia.tv etc
Examples of free email addresses:
threecrownslimited@mycompany.com, jobs40@yahoo.com, humanresource2232@gmail.com, omegaventures@live.com
Examples of company email addresses:
Taiye.owolabi@trueimagesplc.com, hr@gloworld.com, careers@surftechltd.cc
If the email address is that of the company, then to get the website of the company, open a new browser and add www to the name that is written after the @ in the email address. For example in the above examples, the websites would be:
www.trueimagesplc.com, www.gloworld.com, www.surftechltd.cc
When you have thus gotten the website of the company, you should then look around the site for the company profile information. Some websites usually have a profile or description of the company profile on their first page while many others have a link called “About Us” or “About the Company” under which one can usually find things like Company profile, Company history, Mission, Vision etc.
You should copy between 8 to 15 lines of this description or just enough information that can provide a reasonable description of the company and what they do.
Having copied the company profile, you can now go back to the FrontPage editor and paste this information, adding it to the vacancy text before proceeding to the next step. If the vacancy already contains a short description of the company, you should replace it with the new and longer profile info that you have just obtained.
