07Aug
Jobboard News:
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.
Tags: job boards, job seekers, mobile 2.0, online recruitment news, twitter
06Apr
This morning there has been a whole new set of regulations affecting both employees and employers, Personnel Today have listed them.
Job seekers are not very happy about the Job Centre Plus “Easter hunt” as it is demeaning..
Facebook completes the roll out of Haystack in order to save from losses from massive photo uploads
Interesting ideas from Steve Evans about job boards and their future with careers fairs and face to face marketing. He has also created a new group on Linked In to continue this discussion.
Tags: facebook, job boards, online recruitment news, regulations, unemployment
31Mar
Apologies for the delay in our regular online recruitment update, things have been very busy at HR Connexions as we draw towards the end of the financial year.
A quick overview to some of the best bits:
Redeployment across HR doubles in 12 months as employers seek alternative to redundancy according to National Management Salary Survey 2009
The CIPD advise that G20 must work to avoid “global skills crunch”
11 Tips on using Social Media - great advise from onrec.com
Tim’s blog (the bigger picture) makes some interesting observations on why twitter could be so last year with new social networking sites entering the market
BBC report that Social Networking sites could be monitored by the government…
Tags: human resources, online recruitment news, social media, twitter
13Mar
Bringing you the best bits on the web about Online Recruitment in this weeks weekly digest. Social Networking continues to take centre stage as a recruitment tool and Great News for Flat Fee RPO’s!
James Caan Invests in Webrecruit - Congratulations Webrecruit! This is great news for our industry - The Flat Fee RPO model designed to reduce the cost of recruitment.
Job Magnet launches Tweetcruit - Application for recruiting on twitter. We have just signed up, so lets see how it shapes up. Talent Technology Blog has also written a post on whether you should use twitter for recruiting
Personnel Today report that HR Directors are upbeat about the downturn
Brand Republic’s article on Don’t get Twitterjacked, get involved following the Social Networking World Forum, may instigate the decision to get your company registered on twitter.
Time to start thinking about your recruitment processes and suppliers - Mike Trevor’s article Time for a Rethink on RPO makes alot of sense
Some interesting discussions taking place on the HR Connexions Linked In Group - Please feel free to join in and why not follow us on Twitter
Tags: economy, flat fee recruitment, online recruitment news, rpo, twitter
06Mar
Here are a few links we have found on the Internet this week regarding online recruitment.
IAB report that Hitwise have revealed a growth in the number of people looking for jobs online in January. (No real surprises, but we are interested to see how this relates to the monster index due to be released next week)
Jobsite have expanded its reach in the North West by partnering an additional 21 local job board sites
The Future of Online Recruitment Job Boards - By Matt Burnley
Mjob - Mobile Job offering a free white paper to check out if mobile recruiting is for you
Have a great weekend!
Tags: job boards, online recruitment news
