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• 07Jun

  Searching for Jobs on Twitter

  Applicant Attraction, Social Networking 1 Comment
  Finding jobs on the internet can be a job in it’s self.  There are a few respected authors in the field and Josh Waldman has a done a quick and simple video that shows job seekers how to create a real time list of relevant jobs for them.  Thanks Josh!

  Tags: job seekers, jobs, social media, twitter

• 04Sep

  Online Recruitment Digest Sept 4th

  News Links, Online Recruitment 1 Comment
  Seams to be a quiet week this week, probably due to the millions of people fleeing the country for their last chance of a summer holiday.  Not much happening on the web either, so just a few snippets…

  More than 150 employers are said to be backing the government’s youth job scheme

  Job Board, Only Marketing Jobs is auctioning its premium advertising space on twitter

  The Business Secretary, Lord Mandelson, has today launched a new report entitled ‘Jobs of the Future’.

  For some inspiration on what recruiters could tweet about, visit this blog post

  Tags: job boards, twitter, unemployment, youth schemes

• 28Aug

  Online Recruitment Digest Friday 28th August

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  Online Recruitment news and snippets from this week on the web….

  5 top tips for making sure your online recruitment advertising strategy works and great advise on how to get your advert noticed from Hire Strategies too

  6% decline in applications from migrant workers

  Career Builder identify top 10 Job tweeters who you should be following

  Personnel Today report on swine flu call centres to close within the next few days, despite expected increase in demand once the schools go back.

  Andy Headworth has found a great recruitment video this week, an excellent example of what can be done.

  Tags: Job Adverts, Online Recruitment, swine flu, twitter, video

• 07Aug

  Weekly Online Recruitment Digest 7th August 2009

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  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

• 31Jul

  Online Recruitment Weekly Digest 31st July 2009

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  Happy Yorkshire Day to all those Yorkshire readers!   We all know that Yorkshire people have deep pockets and short arms, but even if you are not from Yorkshire; if you want to keep your costs as low as possible and still recruit the best staff don’t forget your online recruitment strategy!   Some of the best bits from this weeks web to help you on the way…

  Peter Gold has condensed some of the highlights from The Aberdeen Group Report: HR Exec’s Guide to Web 2.0. on Hire strategies.  The full report is a 28 page document and worth a read as it demonstrates the usage and success of web 2.0 for recruitment & talent management.  (Recruitment has seen a 105% growth of web 2.0 tools).  

  Hire Strategies has also set up an affiliates scheme to help drive traffic to their workshops.  This could be useful to all those in the industry who are helping employers to reduce the cost of recruitment!

  Job Board News:  JobServe have introduced a P4P (Pay for Performance) service and Total Jobs are gearing up for the largest piece of international labour research ever.

  People Management report on how HR Departments are preparing for swine flu and the CIPD have updated their free fact sheet for employers  there are some great tips to help employers prepare & contingency plan from home working to video conferencing & communications.   

  Sadly we missed the Summer Recruitment Tweetup, but if you want to know more about what this is and what happened on the night, check out the video on Digital Recruiting  Looks like we missed a good one!

  Tags: job boards, Social Networking, swine flu, twitter, web 2.0

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