Twitter seems to be the flavour of the month. Every day I hear Twitter this and Twitter that, many times from mainstream press outlets. It has taken the recruiting community a while to come to terms with Twitter. This is not a bad thing as the business value needed to be understood. I first bloggedContinue reading “Top Recruiting/Recruiters on Twitter”
Category Archives: Recruitment
Talking with the Recruiting Animal
Yesterday I was lucky (or unlucky depending on your point of view) to be invited onto the Recruiting Animal Show. The Recruiting Animal is Michael Kelemen from Canada. Michael holds a weekly live show for people to call in to talk recruiting. I was on the show with Australian recruiters Dan Naroo, and Ross Clennett. ThereContinue reading “Talking with the Recruiting Animal”
Twitter for Jobs a follow up
A short follow up on my post about using Twitter to find a job and find candidates. As a recap, Brandon Mendelson (@BJMendelson) created two hastags, Have A Job? (#HAJ) and Need a job (#NAJ), the details can be found on his blog. I said the real power was you did not need to use Twitter to access the jobsContinue reading “Twitter for Jobs a follow up”
Looking for a job or looking for candidates? Look on Twitter.
A little experiment in recruitment has been kicked off by @BJMendelson on Twitter. Using Twitter to connect job seekers with employers through the use of hastags. Hashtags are a community driven tagging process for adding additional context and metadata to your Twitter. You create a hashtag by prefixing a word with a hash symbol: #hashtag. Brandon has createdContinue reading “Looking for a job or looking for candidates? Look on Twitter.”
Hoojano in partnership with MYOB
Today Australian job referral tool, Hoojano, announced a partnership with MYOB under the banner of StaffSearcher. An interesting move by both organisations, release here. MYOB is moving more and more into SaaS offerings to small and medium business, they even own a web hosting business! Providng these businesses a cost effective method of recruiting candidatesContinue reading “Hoojano in partnership with MYOB”
HR Futures Conference
Just a short post to let you all know that early bird pricing for the Inspecht HR Futures Conference finishes in 3 days, 15th January. After this you will need to spend an extra A$50 to attend. Remember you can register online, or download the offline order form. REGISTRATION TYPE DATES PRICE Early BirdContinue reading “HR Futures Conference”
Microsoft Tag a not so new tool for marketing
Last week Microsoft launched a new service/tool/technology called Microsoft Tag. In simple terms it allows you to take a photo of an image with your internet-enabled phone and the related content is displayed on your phone. Very similar technology to the QR Code. But implemented very differently. The QR Code stores all of the dataContinue reading “Microsoft Tag a not so new tool for marketing”
Are you adapting your services to stay relevant?
An old saying by Heraclitus a Greek philosopher that “Nothing endures but change”. If this was true in 500 BC, then today if you are not preparing for change you are dead in the water. Period! Today I was reading a Gartner research report by Thomas Otter, aka Vendorprisey, The Effects of Social Software on YourContinue reading “Are you adapting your services to stay relevant?”
Recruitment eBook available
About a month ago I decided to create an eBook based on some themes from my blog. After looking over the posts I decided to focus on the new trends and practices in recruitment. The eBook is finished and available for purchase at A$15. Why am I charging if it is based on my blog that isContinue reading “Recruitment eBook available”
Looking for a job? Meet Steve Jobs from JobFeedr
I ran across YAJS (yet another job site) today which is in very early stages of development, they started building it roughly 15 days ago! The site is jobfeedr.com built by two Sydney guys Mike Nicholls & Dale Hurley. From their about page: Jobfeedr.com aggregates Job Postings from major job boards in numbers of major citiesContinue reading “Looking for a job? Meet Steve Jobs from JobFeedr”
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