PharmiMike

Are some recruiters pretending to be candidates just to get the inside information on a job or client?

We think they are!

http://www.pharmiweb.com/features/feature.asp?ROW_ID=1249

“American’s pursuit of health takes place within a widening network of both online and offline sources”

This report from PEW Internet looks interesting..

61% of Americans look online for health information.

I’ve not read it all yet, but that will be this evening’s task

http://www.pewinternet.org/~/media/Files/Reports/2009/PIP_Health_2009.pdf (PDF)

yes I’m off to Milton Keynes tomorrow to go snowboarding at the SnowZone. OK, its not the real thing but at least its snow, and I haven’t been on my board since Canada last year (oh  hang on it was April this year!)

Anyway – if you guys can please make sure nothing exciting happens until I get back!

Novartis Oncology have launched a great recruitment campaign using employee video testimonials as the focus.

Its called the Open Employee Generation campaign:

Year after year, companies try to attract top talent with want ads and job descriptions that show off the company, but don’t explain why talent should want the job.  Which is why, with hundreds of positions to fill in 2009, Novartis Oncology is overhauling its strategy for attracting and hiring top talent by letting its employees tell job applicants exactly why they enjoy coming to work for the leading oncology company every day.

This innovative approach is based on the simple concept that employees are the best and most authentic channel for communicating the value of a work environment.  Job seekers are invited to view video testimonials, available on Novartis Oncology’s global careers site, which were created as part of a global campaign that asked Novartis Oncology employees to share and celebrate the unique stories taking shape at Oncology locations around the world.

The Open Employee Generation campaign succeeds not only in providing valuable stories for the external community.  It also unites Novartis Oncology’s global community around one common goal: helping cancer patients live longer, better lives.

Nice work Novartis – I wonder if they are on YouTube too?

Here are the basics:

• It’s a gadget that comes with the latest release of Google toolbar
• It allows people (who have a Google account) to post a comment in a browser window alongside a (any) page on your website that you cannot moderate or delete.  The comments appear instantly (you can ‘report abuse’ to Google)
• Other people with sidewiki gadget enabled can view and make their own contribution to the wiki entry
• Unless you have the gadget active on your toolbar then you cannot even see these entries

http://www.google.com/sidewiki/entry/aurorahealthpr/id/_olSYAlpcIdly_BcozSDLkkspqw

I’ll have a play and report back! – In the meantime I’m off to play bass in a Caribbean / Reggae band!

woo I received a Google wave invitation this morning – looks nice !- all I need is someone to talk to. Any takers? I can invite 8 people (need Google accounts)

In many ways this could be turning recruitment on its head and is probably not that popular with recruiters, but http://www.resumerabbit.com/ will (for a fee of $59.95) push your CV out to 88 Job sites, and expose you to the wider world (in a nice way I hope)..

One-Stop Resume Posting Service Just one simple form makes your resume and job requirements instantly available to employers and recruiters on all of the very best career web sites. This resume posting service gives you massive exposure while saving you over 60 hours of research and data entry.

Multiple Job Category SelectionsOur Resume Posting service offers multiple categories of career sites where we can post your resume. We’ve identified all the best sites in each category to choose amongst: General Purpose, Information Technology, Sales & Marketing, Diversity, and Accounting.

Sites include:

4Jobs.com 
American Preferred 
AmericasJobSource.com 
Best Jobs USA 
Career Center 
Career File 
Career Mart 
Career Shop 
CareerBuilder 
CareerJournal.com 
Employ.com 
EmployerIndex.com 
eRecruitingWorld.com 
Fortune1000Jobs.com 
Help-Wanted.net 
HelpWantedSite.com 
HireNet 
HotResumes.com 
I Want Work 
Job Bank USA 
Job.com 
JobAdsUSA 
JobAnimal.com 
JobIsland
JobPostingsOnline.com 
JobSearchLink.com 
JobSearchSite.com 
JobSearchWarehouse 
JobsExcite 
JobToaster.com 
Jobvertise 
JobWarehouse 
MegaJobSites.com 
Monster.com 
Net-Temps 
PostingsOnline.com 
PostingWildcard.com 
Prohire.com 
QuintCareers.com 
RecruiterDirect 
RecruitUSA 
Resumes2Work 
SearchEase.com 
The Talent Bank 
Thingamajob.com 
TrueCareers 
USJobNetwork.com 
VCRJobs

.. plus  a load of other speciality and diversity job boards.

It also sets up job agents for you based on your profile and will email you (presumably a lot!) with matching jobs.

However, it’s USA based and doesn’t currently allow you to create an account if you can’t add a valid zip code, state and phone number. Perhaps we should do a similar thing in the UK / EU on PharmiWeb.com ??

Facebook Groups are increasingly popular, and rightly so. With nearly 300 million Facebook users, there’s no reason why you shoudn’t have one for your organisation / company / brand.

Alison Driscol has put together a nice step by step guide of how to create and manage your own group here: http://mashable.com/2009/10/07/facebook-groups/