Another job board powered by Twitter and recycling content that already exists. Nice to see we are in there, but so far I’ve had a single click through!
Another Twitter Job Board
It does make me think more about my Twitter strategy for PharmiWeb. Currently I’m pushing out selections of jobs on various categories (client, region, job) to a number of different twitter accounts, but its getting more and more complicated as I add more, and harder to keep track. I’m actually not that convinced about the responses or the quality of the candidates we get from it, bu it does constitute “noise” so I guess its a form of marketing!
This one looks reasonably organised, and has a reasonable interface. Largely US based, but currently free to post, but only manually and limited to 5 ads per hour or 12 ads in a 24 hour period.
They have an API (geekspeak for you can get a computer to talk to it) to allow you to query their jobs, but not one for posting jobs. I’ve requested that thet pick up feeds from PharmiWeb.com – we’ll see.
Job Shouts - Twitter Job board
I’ve signed up for some sponsored adverts on the Aggregator Board, Indeed.com. They already pick up our feeds and we get a fair amount of traffic from them that converts reasonably well. Their sign up process was relatively painless and it all goes onto a credit card. Interestingly they request that we put a piece of Javascript code on the “Thankyou for applying for the job” page so that they can track conversions (in the same way that Google Analytics does. Not a bad idea.
I’ll run it for 1 month and see how we get on.
This is an interesting tool along the lines of what I’ve been thinking about for some time. Give the candidates a tool that allows THEM to track their job applications.
http://www.careerunleashed.com. Apparently it provides:
- Calendar that automatically populates
- To-Do List with alerts/reminders based on progress of each lead
- Contact database with history of your interactions on each job lead
- Ability to store multiple resumes and other job related documents
- Ability to measure effectiveness of resumes
- Ability to track each lead in your pipeline over time
Sounds useful, but would candidates pay $10/month for it? I’m not sure. Also I guess its only as good as the information you put in, and we all know how unreliable we all are!
Overall though, I was discussing a very similar concept at PharmiWeb recently. Perhaps we should investigate further..???
Just came across this site / service which I will check out and review.
Apparently : The world’s largest Twitter Job Board! Currently tweeting over 300,000 jobs!
Over 65,000 followers on our 5,000+ Job Channel network. 6,000+ companies represented.
Push your Jobs to Twitter?
Personally I’m not that impressed. Its clunky and doesn’t do a vast amount that cant be done with a couple of hours of time.
Simple to install and use. At last a real application for Twitter! It presents twitter chat in a kind of micro-forum style. I’ve installed in on PharmiMike.com and will look to test it out on PharmiWeb.com too.
Tweetboard - Micro Forum
A new “Medical and healthcare industry social media community ” created using the Ning tool
Just registered, so I’ll let you know what its like once I’ve had a chance to check it out.
Medical and Healthcare Social Community
This looks interesting… essentially a “micro-forum”
“Tweetboard is a fun and engaging micro-forum type application for your website. It pulls your Twitter stream in near real-time (max 1 min delay), reformatting tweets into threaded conversations with unlimited nesting. Conversations that spun off the original conversation are also threaded in-line, giving your site visitors full perspective of what’s being discussed”
Possible use for customer support?
One aspect of Bing that seems to have been overlooked by many is the RSS (yes I’m still obsessed). You can create an RSS feed for ANY search, simply by putting “&format=RSS” on the end of the search string. Thats pretty damn powerful.
So if you want to keep tabs on a particular topic then you can run a query and create an RSS for your feedreader. You can so a similar thing too with GoogleAlerts too.
Lets assume for example I want to keep track of “Pfizer”.
http://www.bing.com:80/news/search?q=pfizer&go=&form=QBNR&format=rss
Simple. You can of course also use that as a news feed on your site. You do of course get a lot of rubbish returned, but hey, its free.
Its a pretty obvious question, but assuming that you know what words or phrases you are hoping to be found under, its a very important one. Where are you in the Great Google. (other search engines are useful too). Because without knowing, you don’t know if you are getting better or worse in the search engine rankings
I use a great plugin tool from SEOBOOKS called Rankchecker. Its a plugin for Firefox and allows you to run a query against search terms on 4 or the main search engines. Personally I normally focus on Google.co.uk, but it will search google.com, yahoo and MSLive too.
How to Check your ranking on Google (and Others)
Its a free plugin and only takes a few moments to run and stores its results in a cumulative spreadsheet so you can see changes over time for your chosen keywords. You can also schedule it to run on set time intervals. Not very sophisticated, but a very useful (and free) tool!
