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.
http://www.beyond.com/i/md459/media/in-the-news/survey-college-graduates-going-niche-not-social-in-their-job-search.htm
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
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
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?
I came across this last night, www.hunting4.co.uk/jobs - its a new jobs aggregator, or sorts. They dont have many jobs there yet (752) and only have 11 pharma jobs but they claim to push your jobs to :
- JobRapido
- Idubu
- Recruitment.com
- Indeed
- Simply Hired
- Myjobsearch
So this might save you a bit of time if you were going to post jobs to those sites anyway. There is no automated way of posting as far as I can see, but it is free! PharmiWeb.com posts to most of those partners anyway, but its not a bad selection, and presumably will grow over time.
I’ll give it a go with a few key jobs. If you do this, dont forget to tag them (see UTM codes) so that you can track the success rates..
http://www.hunting4.co.uk/jobs/index.php
“hunting4.co.uk distributes jobs over multiple job search engines for improved coverage…”
I’ve just started to test a job posting on Xing. Their site (which is much like LinkedIn) requries that you are a “premium” member before you can advertise jobs. Unsurprisingly, there is a cost for this, but its only a few Euros. Once you are registered you can post your job adverts and set up the budgets. You are charged 49 cents (Euro) per click, but you can cap each advert on clicks. A job is live for 90 days (which might mean a lot of clicks!)
It all seems pretty straight forward, but I’ll do a more comprehensive review once I get some responses to the adverts.
Posting a job on Xing
