An interesting infographic about social media recruitment.
http://mashable.com/2011/08/28/social-media-recruiting-infographic/
Enjoy!
I’m not sure if I’d had my head in the sand for the last few years, but I only just found out that you can post jobs onto facebook’s MarketPlace. You can also post classifieds for cars and houses too. The whole thing is run by Ooodle (Oodle.com) which is similar to Google’s “Base”.
http://apps.facebook.com/marketplace/
You can load jobs in singly direct into the listings here using the link above and clicking on “Post”. Select “Jobs” from the category and whatever appropriate sub category you wish (eg: Science, Pharma & Biotech). Fill in the appropriate fields, and also click on “Options” to get 3 additional fields for Company, Job Title and Job Type. You can even upload an image. (or logo).
Jobs posted are live for 30 days once they are approved. For some reason my first post was disapproved, but on posting a second time it went through. The only difference was I included a “real” PharmiWeb link to the job on the second ad, but a bit.ly shortened link on the the first.
If you want to get clever, you can upload multiple jobs to Oodle using XML, CSV or Tab delimited files, but it seems you have to pay for this privilege. (http://www.oodle.com/submitfeed/) .
I’ll wait to see what the result of my first post is, and will try posting a few more too.
This is a very useful toolbar to help search for candidates using a bunch of predefined searches:
Thanks to recruitingtools for this!
I am curious to know what people think about CV / resume file names.
Should you just call your document cv1.doc ? If you are you are probably missing out a chance to stand out from the crown, or at least be found in a large directory full of CVs. By being slightly smarter, a CV called Mike_Wood_CV.doc is far easier for a recruiter to find and although most CVs are imported into the recruiter’s own system, why make it difficult for them?
On another note, what about file types? I would normally recommend saving your CV as a PDF file or a .DOC. Try and avoid using Office 2007′s .DOCX, as not everyone can open them, and again, why make it difficult.
However, these are my thoughts and I’d be interested to know what you think! Let me know.
Mike
Monster announced last week that it has completed its acquisition of Yahoo! HotJobs, a leading online recruitment website, from Yahoo! for $225 million in cash. Concurrent with the closing of the acquisition, Monster and Yahoo! have also entered into a three year commercial traffic agreement whereby Monster will become Yahoo!’s exclusive provider of career and job content on the Yahoo! homepage in the United States and Canada.
The acquisition of Yahoo! HotJobs further strengthens Monster’s position as the market leader in online job opportunities and global recruitment resources. Monster’s expanded customer base will have access to even more talent, with the brand reaching roughly 62 percent of the US internet population (130 million unique visitors.) Monster will also expand its newspaper partnerships from 400 to 1000 with the addition of 600 HotJobs daily and weekly newspapers providing local reach in all 50 states.
At the same time, job seekers will have access to more opportunities, since Monster is now the foremost source of job postings for employers in 19 of the top 20 industries and in 45 out of the top 50 cities as compared to any leading online career site.1
“We are delivering on our strategy with the acquisition of HotJobs and the clear winners are our customers, job seekers and shareholders,” said Sal Iannuzzi, chairman, chief executive officer and president of Monster Worldwide. “We now have a powerful one-two punch of scale and precision – the largest pool of seekers and jobs, coupled with our 6Sense semantic search technology(TM) that allows unrivaled ability to match talent and opportunities.”
“The completion of the acquisition of HotJobs by Monster is great news for users, customers, employees and partners,” said Jeff Kinder SVP, Media Products and Solutions at Yahoo!. “The combination of Monster and HotJobs offers a stronger service for all parties, with more employers, job seekers and opportunities. The traffic agreement also enables Yahoo! to continue to provide users with valued online career and recruiting services.”
Effective today, Monster enters a transition period while the company builds an integrated site and product offering that will deliver the industry’s most complete recruitment and career seeking solutions – and the tools to derive the most relevant results from the most possibilities.
Full Press release. http://about-monster.com/content/monster-completes-acquisition-hotjobs-and-enters-multi-year-traffic-agreement-yahoo
It looks like LinkedIn have removed the ability to post links into the Job Posting within groups. This to me seems very silly, because the whole point of posting a job on a LinkedIn group is to get users to click on the ones they are interested in and bring them to your website. Putting the cut-and-past-a-link hurdle in their way is not a good idea. That’s not to say that people won’t be doing that, but it doesn’t make it easy. I’ll be monitoring the traffic from LinkedIn to see if this makes any difference.
Interesting WSJ article about large companies who contine to invest in their Job Sites…
Beyond.com, Inc., the world’s largest network of niche career communities, released a survey showing graduating college students rely heavily on their university career centers and prefer to use niche job sites over general job boards and social networking sites. I found their results almost perplexing because nearly every student I speak with has never been to their career center nor heard of niche job boards in their industries.
This is quite an old report, but I came across it and thought it was worth sharing
New research published today (October09) by the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP), shows that racial discrimination in recruitment still exists towards ethnic minority people.
The study showed discrimination occurred for those applying for jobs with a name suggesting they were from an ethnic minority, rather than white British. For every nine applications sent by a white applicant, an equally good applicant with an ethnic minority name had to send sixteen to obtain a positive response.
Three applications were sent to 987 advertised job vacancies giving a total of 2,961 applications. Applications were made to private, public and voluntary sector employers of varying sizes.
The public sector vacancies included in this study – which usually required standard application forms, did not discriminate at this initial stage of recruitment. This suggests that discrimination might be reduced by the use of standard application forms.
http://www.dwp.gov.uk/newsroom/press-releases/2009/october-2009/dwp047-09-191009.shtml
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