Something I get asked a lot is “How does social media impact the HR department?” There are lots of ways, including areas that crosses into the recruiting; attraction, branding, onboarding and closing the deal. Do your offer letters engage future employees like this? All kidding aside, any company that can give this much attention toContinue reading “Are your offer letters keepsakes?”
Category Archives: Recruitment
Jobvite Source: Social Recruiting for All
Late last week Jobvite, who 3 weeks ago secured another $8.25 million in series B funding, launched their latest product Jobvite Source. A product that allows any company to source candidates through a combination of social networks without the need of their larger ATS. Jobvite Source also allows employees to refer jobs on to theirContinue reading “Jobvite Source: Social Recruiting for All”
RecruitTech Presentation
Today I gave a short presentation at RecruitTech in Canberra on Social Media in the workplace. The official bio was: Many big organisations continue to block the use of social networking tools in the workplace, whilst others encourage their use. But how much Facebook surfing and Twittering is too much? This presentation weighs up theContinue reading “RecruitTech Presentation”
Is blogging over?
Two interesting things have happened in the last 3 days. I woke on Saturday morning to the news that Joel Cheesman, the Cheezhead site and from what I can tell brand had been purchased by Jobing. Part of this change is the blog will be no more. This news struck me as very strange, givenContinue reading “Is blogging over?”
Follow up on the sources of talent report
It has been an interesting week or so since Phillip and I released the sources of talent report for Australia. We have had both positive and negative feedback, which is to be expected. Some of the commentary available online: Gerry Crispin Alice Snell Ross Clennett Six Figures Peerlo I would like to review some ofContinue reading “Follow up on the sources of talent report”
Sources of Talent in Australia
Back in April I had one of my many wild ideas, undertake a sources of hire survey for Australia, I mean how hard can it be? The idea was triggered by a post from Phillip Tusing from Destination Talent so after chatting over a few days we decided to join forces and get a surveyContinue reading “Sources of Talent in Australia”
Social media strategy webinar
The folks at Recruiter Daily have asked me to do a short webinar for their readers about social media and recruitment called “Plan your social media strategy – connect, attract and recruit“. The event will be 11am September 17 and you can register online now, even if you can’t make the live event the presentationContinue reading “Social media strategy webinar”
Social Media: A Recruitment Revolution?
Back in June I shipped myself off to the first Social Recruiting Summit at Google HQ in San Francisco. On my return I was approached by the team from Australasian Talent Conference (Trevor Vas, Horace Chai, and Kevin Wheeler) to see if we could pull off a similar event here in Australia. So on 3rdContinue reading “Social Media: A Recruitment Revolution?”
Are careers website critical to success??
I was beaten to the punch by Kelly Magowan with her post yesterday as to why you need to upgrade your corporate careers site to be successful with social media. This was my flow on post from the Corporate Careers Website Report I released on Wednesday night. However Kelly only scratched the surface of the issue.Continue reading “Are careers website critical to success??”
State of Australian Corporate Career Websites
In late 2008 I spent some time reviewing the career websites of the BRW Top 200 organisations within Australia, based on the work by CareerXRoads in the US. The process included a physical review of each of the BRW Top 200 web sites during September to December 2008. I sat on the report for a longContinue reading “State of Australian Corporate Career Websites”
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