Category Archives: Recruitment

Quoted in the AFR

A couple of weeks ago I spoke to Beverley Head a freelance journalist about recruitment and web 2.0. Today the Australian Financial Review launched their IT Innovations special report with Beverley’s article quoting me. While the article is primarily about KPMG’s virtual career fair that kicks off later this month, I do end up withContinue reading “Quoted in the AFR”

eRecruitment systems and your employer brand

Today while conducting some research I found what looks on the surface as a bug within PageUp’s PageUp People application, but turns out is not. (For international readers PageUp is the leading eRecruitment vendor in Australia.) I was reviewing the Optus careers web site and went to review a listing of jobs and I openedContinue reading “eRecruitment systems and your employer brand”

2Vouch for your friends and get paid

Launching their public beta today, September 1, is Australia’s newest social recruiting service called 2Vouch. (Disclosure: I have done some work for 2Vouch.) Having been in private alpha testing over the last month or so the Melbourne based company is for the first time allowing the public access to their service. The best way toContinue reading “2Vouch for your friends and get paid”

Basic community manager role

The role below floated across my desk on Friday, specifically targeted at students as it was advertised on the Swinburne University employment site for students. A few interesting points. Firstly there are more and more of these roles requesting skills within social media, and secondly they are targeted to university students. I suspect employers haveContinue reading “Basic community manager role”

Is the IT Sector softening?

I have been interested over the last few weeks to see the varying discussions that Australia is or is not in a recession at the moment. While the jobless figures overall are not too bad at 4.3% for July 2008 (according to the ABS), there are reports of the RBA easing interest rates due toContinue reading “Is the IT Sector softening?”

Recruiting or Branding failure?

I read a article (thanks Plugger) about how the Victorian Department of Sustainability and Environment need to recruit over 500 firefighters for the coming season. So I clicked on the link to read to full story and read a good story about their recruiting needs. Mr Rash said the love of the bush and theContinue reading “Recruiting or Branding failure?”

Jobs on the go

Over the last couple of weeks I have been pondering the impact of the mobile web on recruitment. As such I have been thinking through several possible use cases but at this stage I have not found the killer app. We have already seen several companies trying to use SMS notifications for job adverts andContinue reading “Jobs on the go”