At the beginning of last month I ran a short survey to find out how job referrals where being used within Australia. The results are now available for download. So what did the survey say? Well in summary it confirmed several facts. First, referrals are big business with 87% of respondents being referred a jobContinue reading “Job referral survey”
Category Archives: Recruitment
Yet another jobs site
I do wonder when enough is enough in the niche/regional job boards arena but I guess we are not there yet as Jobsreel seems to have completed a very soft launch. I say soft as I’m not really sure they have launched, they only have 1 job listed, and it’s one of their own. TheyContinue reading “Yet another jobs site”
New job site for startups
Over the weekend I saw on Techcrunch that a new job site for startups in the US was launched, Startuply. There are a few of interesting things here. Firstly it is not really a new site more a re-launch of Jowba, secondly they have taken funding and support from Y Combinator, finally they have aContinue reading “New job site for startups”
Social media and Generation Y
A recent report from Microsoft and Insurity in the US found that 71% used IM and 77% used social networking sites on a daily or frequent basis, with over 2/3rds of them belonging to 2 or more social networking sites. But surprisingly 15% said they did not belong to a social network site. While thisContinue reading “Social media and Generation Y”
Traffic to job sites
I am in the process of preparing some research on the internet traffic for the top job boards in Australia, from a general, niche and aggregation sense. While I am still preparing the details and looking at some comparison information the top sites are:- General – Seek Niche – Defence Jobs Aggregation – Recruit.Net (althoughContinue reading “Traffic to job sites”
Do I want a job or a date?
Newish recruitment site in Australia JobX who promote their site is “all about giving you control and enabling you to promote yourself and network with others” is having a bit of an identity crisis. It seems they are not sure if they want to be a job board or a dating site! How do IContinue reading “Do I want a job or a date?”
CMyPeople follow up
About 3 weeks ago I posted about a new service from Chandler Macleod called CMyPeople, following the post Roger Christie from Sefiani Communications Group called saying that he had read the blog post and arranged for me to go into Chandler Macleod to complete the full survey before the official release. Not only did heContinue reading “CMyPeople follow up”
Job referral survey – Take it now!
An area that has always been of interest for HR is how to keep the cost per hire down while still getting high quality candidates. One common method to do this is through a referral program either formal or informal. As part of my consulting I am doing research into the referral habits of AustralianContinue reading “Job referral survey – Take it now!”
Social recruitment in the investment community
A small post and badly written, ie copy and paste from a press release, but I wanted to document this somewhere. Jobvite a new’ish recruitment software vendor has been selected by Advent Software as their new recruitment solution. Jobvite is a collaborative approach to recruitment that has all employees in the organisation get involved inContinue reading “Social recruitment in the investment community”
Video resumes in the Australian marketplace
I am still busy reviewing what HR and recruitment progress I missed in the last 2 years while I worked in pure IT roles. One area that still seems to be bubbling along slowly is the video resume, with opinions on if they are good or bad, we now even have our own player inContinue reading “Video resumes in the Australian marketplace”
Michael Specht 