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Is video helping employers get an edge over recruiters?
Posted by admin in candidate attraction, candidate sourcing, disruptive technology, online branding, online recruitment, recruitment 2.0, video, web 2.0, web ad on 08 7th, 2008 | No Comments
A quick scan on the web will show you some great integration of video content to recruitment sites.
Have a click to see some examples for the likes of 3, PwC and of course Google. There’s a big difference between visiting a site like this and a visit to a text only site. Employer brands, differentiation...
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...
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...
Hays Fight Their Corner Over Departed Consultant’s LI Network
Posted by admin in career builder viral, disruptive technology, hays, information age, law, legal, linkedin, monster, online, recruitment, recruitment consultant, social media on 06 24th, 2008 | 2 Comments
Hays vs Mark Ions. Doesn’t quite have the same ring to it as Kramer vs Kramer does it?
I suspect many of you will have noticed this in the press or on the web over the last few days. I don’t want to go over old ground, but very briefly for anyone who’s missed it, here’s what’s...
Barack Obama’s LinkedIn Question - An Update… And A Question!
Posted by admin in barack obama, disruptive technology, drudge report, information age, internet, linkedin, social media, web 2.0, wikinomics on 06 21st, 2008 | No Comments
The Senator now has over 1300 responses.
As per previous posts, I’m very impressed at how Mr Obama has integrated Web 2.0 into his campaign (have you read the post last month on his campaign? Worth a click)
What Obama has done is not only give himself an edge in the Democratic race with Hillary...
Will Web 2.0 Power Obama to the White House?
Posted by admin in barack obama, candidate attraction, disruptive technology, drudge report, internet, online recruitment, recruitment 2.0, recruitment consultant, the west wing, web 2.0 on 06 20th, 2008 | No Comments
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Not content with raising stacks of campaign cash from Facebook, Barack Obama is now pushing his plans for keeping the US competitive in the future. So far 590 responses in 12 hours. Bearing in mind that a big portion of that 12 hours has been overnight in the...
When Virals Are Bad, They’re Very Very Bad - But When They’re Good Its The Simpsons!
Posted by admin in career builder, career builder viral, disruptive technology, internet, iron man, job board, recruitment, recruitment consultant, social media, staffing, the simpsons, viral on 06 7th, 2008 | No Comments
We all love a good viral don’t we?
Cutting edge? Topical… And sometimes pretty close to the bone!
Sometimes it can all go a bit too far… You may have heard of the viral that was withdrawn by CareerBuilder recently. Interesting topic… Its been taken off youtube and suffice to say...
Online Recruitment - Full of New Ideas? Not This Time…
Posted by admin in crm, cv, disruptive technology, facebook, internet, job alert, job board, recruitment, recruitment 2.0, recruitment consultant, staffing on 06 5th, 2008 | No Comments
Right, this is really annoying me, so bear with me if this turns into a rant…
For all the cool stuff out there - all the video ads being streamed, all the social media, the networking sites et al - why do firms, and I’m talking all firms big and small, job boards and agencies, persist in...
