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45% of employers are using social media to check the background of potential employees. Cheezhead has all the stats on who is likely to search and why they decide not to hire.
Graduates Yorkshire has secured funding from Yorkshire Forward to offer paid internships with employers in the region. Press Release at Onrec.com
Personnel Today warns that job saving tactics may only have delayed job cuts
Noras claim that only 32% of job seekers visit job boards just to look for jobs
Survey results from changeworknow reveal that nine out of ten applicants would prefer to complete an online application form rather than attach their CV. Sorry Lesley, but we are not convinced by this statistic, so we have set up a poll on LinkedIn to see what the audience think.
Although the deal was struck between Jobsite and Johnson press on the 20th July 2009, the partnership has gone live this week. This is a fantastic improvement on the newspaper job board which powers JobsToday, Scotsman.com/Jobs and JobsToday.ie across its 300 plus regional websites. HR Connexions have advertised on JobsToday since it was launched, this site really has helped our customers attract local talent and the new partnership can only mean improved statistics for our clients.
CW Jobs are running their fantasy football league again for 2009/2010 and its exclusive to to IT recruitment industry.
Executivesontheweb.com have launched their mobile site. Designed to allow executive job seekers access to vacancies through their mobile devise.
Other News:
76% of UK bosses would not chose a candidate based on their clothes. The Ladders have done a survey of 500 Senior Execs. Read more at Sirona Says
Stepstone have launched Talent Strategy Assessment .com which is supposed to help organisation benchmark their current talent management processes against best practices. It’s an online process made up of 19 multiple choice questions. It could probably help and prompt some useful thoughts into current Talent Management processes for HR Managers. There is a useful guide to download once you have completed the assessment.
The CIPD have updated their free quarterly survey report on job seeking in a recession. The overall Job seeker satisfaction score remains high at +48
Finally, Twitter has suffered a denial-of-service attack. As part of their defense against the attack, they have blocked a large number of IP addresses. This means that many of the applications that broadcast to twitter have been blocked and subsequently are unable to offer their key services. Normal service for some applications may not resume until after the weekend.
