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xing offline advertising targets tube passengers
Anyone read Metro yesterday?
http://www.xing.com/ the professional networking site had a fairly big ad in there yesterday morning. Anyone who’s ever looked into advertising in Metro will know these ads ain’t cheap. Also noticed poster advertising at one of the tube stations I was at. This...
Papers - Appointments section dead? Is the entire paper too far behind?
Posted by admin in business networking, candidate sourcing, career builder, disruptive technology, job board, newspapers, online, recruitment consultant, web 2.0, web ad on 07 22nd, 2008 | No Comments
A couple of clicks around planet blog (not to mention The Economist….) you’ll find just about everybody saying that the newspaper industry is on its last legs. You can find this on digital recruiting, Cheezhead and many other online recruitment sites (these are two of my favourites mind...
More disruptive technology for the recruitment market. Will this be the one that changes the game?
Posted by admin in business networking, candidate attraction, candidate sourcing, internet, online recruitment, recruitment consultant, social media, web 2.0, wikinomics on 07 21st, 2008 | No Comments
Yet another new business with their eye on disrupting the recruitment market.
Have a click here to have a look at the Alliance Q website.
Here’s the crux of their pitch:
1. Fortune 500 businesses have most of the US jobs (lets take that one as read, really don’t want to go into detail on...
Some Saturday nonsense - or is it? Heat Magazine has new competitor
Posted by admin in business networking, disruptive technology, facebook, google, information age, internet, online, social media, twitter, web 2.0 on 07 19th, 2008 | No Comments
Twitter to take on Heat Mag?
Sounds ridiculous doesn’t it? How could something like Twitter threaten a gossip mag like Heat?Those of you who have already caught the Twitter bug will know that this is a rapid fire communications platform. Users are asked to answer the question “What are you doing?”...
Twitter – useful for business or just a bit of fun?
Posted by admin in business networking, candidate attraction, candidate sourcing, disruptive technology, internet, linkedin, personal brand, recruitment, staffing, twitter on 07 15th, 2008 | 2 Comments
ALL - WORTH CHECKING THE COMMENTS TO THIS POST FOR MORE TWITTER SOURCING TRICKS - THANKS KELLY!
So picture the scene. You walk into your office – having just come off the phone to your Chief Exec (or worse still the Bank Manager) discussing the impact of the latest economic woes and the potential impact...
Ouch! Google bashes Hays and Adecco?
Posted by admin in beaker.com, business networking, carve consulting, disruptive technology, internet, job board, online recruitment, recruitment, recruitment 2.0, recruitment consultant, web 2.0, yellojobs.com, zubka on 07 9th, 2008 | 1 Comment
The industry head of careers and classifieds at Google is quoted in this month’s Recruiter magazine as saying:
“The Hays and the Adeccos of the world haven’t got it right. Where are they online? They are feeding the jobs boards.”
Click here for the article.
Lovely. I’m sure...
So what’s most important – who you know or what they know about you?
Posted by admin in business networking, internet, jimmy carr, naomi campbell, personal brand, social media on 07 2nd, 2008 | No Comments
Anyone watch 8 out of 10 cats on Channel 4 last weekend? While not quite ready to declare myself an avid Jimmy Carr fan I would confess to thinking this show is pretty funny, especially when watched with a glass of wine.
One question posed to the audience this week was “Would you be interested in working...
