PharmiMike

Thanks to Cruiter Talk here are 5 Free Job Posting Boards and a brief overview with the text taken directly from their websties without modification.

Here are 5 Free job posting and Spidering sites in no particular order of preference.

Resumark.com (Text is from the Resumark.com website)

Unlike most other job websites on the Internet, we will list your jobs for free. That’s right – you can post as many jobs as you want – completely free.  We are the first website to come up with this idea and here is how it works:

ZipRecruiter.com (Text is from theZipRecruiter.com website)

ZipRecruiter offers a do it yourself web based hiring solution as an alternative to recruiters. Founded in 2010, Ziprecruiter enables companies to post to multiple free job boards with a single submission and vet all applicants through simple-to-setup online interviews. Hiring personnel can toggle between applicants answers and resumes online as they collaborate to rate and select the best candidate.

Jobvertise.com (Text is from the Jobvertise.com website)

Jobvertise basic services are FREE to employers and jobseekers because we generate our revenue through premium services and advertising on the site. As an employer using the basic services you never have to pay a fee to post jobs or search over 800,000 resumes in our database!*

JobZoom.com (Text is from the JobZoom.com website)

To make posting easier, we want to go beyond the norm. You have the option of posting INSTANTANEOUSLY, without lengthy processes, boring signups, or hassle, in under a minute your job is up and running, it activates simply through email. BUT… if you want to easily manage jobs on your very own DASHBOARD where you can edit and delete jobs right there on one screen… we recommend a free member account. click here for the dashboard area We have many more features coming and job posting will only get smoother.

JobSpider.com (Text is from the JobSpider.com website)

JobSpider.com is a free employment information exchange job board actually modeled fromhttp://www.craigslist.org. My name is Chris McGarry and I designed it because I was looking for a network administrator and it was frustrating to not see an intuitive and nicely organized free job board. The response has obviously been overwhelming and my ”small project” has blossomed into a very popular job board that, in many ways, rivals the big boys (i.e. Monster, HotJobs, etc.).

JobSpider.com is FREE to employers and jobseekers. There is no charge to post a resume, post job(s), search through the resumes, search through the jobs, or create a job alert. JobSpider.com is FREE to employers and jobseekers because I generate revenue through advertising on the site. The only fee that I will charge is to bulk import jobs for employers.

A new multi-posting tool has arrived on the block…

Vacancy Poster is a full featured web application that enables recruiters to post their vacancy simultaneously to multiple job boards. It provides similar functionality to established solutions such as Broadbean and Idibu, but free of charge.

Is this a Broadbean killer? – I’ll certainly be looking into it further.  I will also ensure that PharmiWeb.com is on their list of Job Boards.

http://www.vacancyposter.com/

When I said last week about Twitter going down., I was joking, but it seems that they’ve been suffering outages over the weekend.. oops.

With the popularity of Twitter, comes the demand for URL shorteners.  Long URLs simply don’t fit into Twitter, so a number of free URL shorteners appeared. However there has been  concern raised by some about the risks associated with using a free service to link to your valuable online content.

Well, the inevitable has happened… TR.IM is closing down, meaning that unless someone else buys their database, then millions of links will simply stop working after Jan 1st 2010.  they claim that they couldn’t monetise the service and they couldn’t compete against Bit.ly.

It is expected that someone will step in and buy the service to “rescue”  the links,  which will save the day – as long as they don’t re-direct all links to  porn or malware sites!

This situation raises the debate about putting your (shortURL) eggs into someone else’s basket. Maybe we should all build shortURL functionality into our website pages, at least then we are in control.

In case you haven’t heard the geeks talking about it, Google launched an important new baby in private in May (09), released it to a select few for testing – Its called Wave, and in essence its a completly new way of communicating in real-time, that has potential to replace email, IM (instant messenger) and more – there, I told you it was important. The concensus seems to be that it will either change the world or fail completely.

There’s a good overview on Mashable here. Suffice to say, I’m trying to get myself onto the beta testing list, to see how the whole thing might impact pharma recruitment.

I also think that Google Wave has thw potential to be a twitter beater, as it provides real time interactive chat. According to the wave website:

A wave is equal parts conversation and document.People can communicate and work together with richly formatted text, photos, videos, maps, and more.

A wave is shared. Any participant can reply anywhere in the message, edit the content and add participants at any point in the process. Then playback lets anyone rewind the wave to see who said what and when.

A wave is live. With live transmission as you type, participants on a wave can have faster conversations, see edits and interact with extensions in real-time.

Its also fully accessible to programmers as it uses an open protocol, so anyone can build their own wave system. 

Its not available to the public yet and wont be for a few months yet, but watch this space.

Google has anounced they are to be launching their own operating system.  This is significant stuff, as, although its only aimed at netbooks to start with, it will start to eat away at Microsoft’s core business. Its the first real face to face challenge that microsoft has had in this area. Google already has online versions of the most popular “office type” products which personally I’m using increasingly. Desktop versions are planned too.

Read more on the BBC News.

OK,  I posted 5 jobs on TweetMyjobs.com, selected at random from my current top jobs. According to their stats, I recieved the following clicks…

• Senior Manager of Health Economics (50 view, 59 clickthroughs)
• GLOBAL Regulatory Affairs Director (2/3)
• Associate Medical Director (56/59)
• Marketing Project Manager (58/56)
• CRA – Scotland (6/0)

Posting the jobs in the first place, was a manual process, and I found no way of automatically posting them through an API, so long term its not particularly viable.

When you post your job (through the very clunky interface), you  select a preferred channel. They then push the  job out to an appropriate twitter account. They have  ”5000″ channels.  However., many of these “channels” have  only a handful of followers, and you know as well as I do that a good proportion of these will be “twitiots” who are spam or will follow anything in the hope they get their own followers up. You can re-weet too (for a cost), but its not automatic, so you’d need to log back in and re-weet (as I did) .

Overall I’m not that impressed with the experience. I certainly won’t be paying for it. Having said that, I think it’s early days for Twitter recruitment, and I think that it has some way to go before people look at it as a useful way of finding jobs. I dont think any of the people that clicked on the twitter posts actually applied for a job, so  quite franky I have better ways to be spending my day.

Unless you’ve had a better experience….

PharmiMike Rating 2/10

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..???

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

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”

• http://tweetboard.com/alpha/

Possible use for customer support?