Category Archives: Recruitment

Johanna Rothman pointed me to this nice item on turning your recruitment program into viral marketing. Another interesting idea I have come across in the last weeks is using Google/Yahoo/any search engine to find applicants. I have been thinking further about this and the potential impact on applicant tracking systems. Why should I have toContinue reading “Forward thinking recruitment ideas”

Arnotts the biscuit people (I know they are now Campbell Arnotts but I am a slow learner) have just rolled out their new jobs site to Asia Pacific over the weekend. Had a look and while they don’t have my dream job it is an cool example of a jobs site, if you are lookingContinue reading “Would you like a biscuit?”

Just having a peek around recruiting.com and found some further comments on, take a look.

Lou Adler has a great article on as he puts it “a story of missed opportunities, lack of vision, not enough courage, and hope for the future.” He talks about the lack of vision in applicant tracking systems, pointing the finger not at the vendors but recruiters instead. He feels that recruiters are not forwardContinue reading “Recruiting & technology the future”

Heather over at “Marketing at Microsoft” blog talks about lots ovf different things ranging from marketing, recruitment and like me follow bright shiny objects. Anyway she has suggested that I you want her to find your resume just link to her blog post and she will follow the referrals (technical term, ). I don’t haveContinue reading “Resume recognition?”

I originally saw this early in the week and dismissed it as just dumb, kind of like an April Fool Joke. Not being a recruiter I did not know that this was once a serious activity. However this morning while I ate my cheese on toast, drank my coffee I saw Johanna Rothman’s comments atContinue reading “More silly (really silly) recruiting ideas”

I got up this morning to pay some bills, however I noticed an email this morning from Jason from the Semiconductor Jobs blog. So now I am writing a blog entry, as my wife would say I have just followed a “shiny object”, she thinks all guys do it. It is very nice to getContinue reading “Moral, ethical or what?”

Ok, there are many ways to determine the skills and fit of a candidate some good and some bad. Adam Barr refers to a very old post from Joel Spolsky on some bad recruiting tricks. Both are very interesting to read, even though Adam slams Joel, Joel does provide some interesting perspectives on things. OnContinue reading “The stupid recruiter”

CNET News.com has just found out about Google’s hiring practice. They might soon find out about how blogs are being used to attract people? Ok so I am cynical. Thanks to BostonWorks.

Found an interesting item on stapler testing of all things, ok maybe that is an overstatement. However Mike Kelly provides a really interesting listing of tests he created for a stapler. You might ask why did he do this, well Johanna Rothman “made him do it”. These two posts provide great content for today. Firstly,Continue reading “Stapler Testing?”