There has been a lot of talk about Google’s new Sidewiki…a tool which allows anyone to comment about a web page, virtually ON the web page itself in a sidebar. This application holds great potential to enable slander, cyber vandalism and spamming — it directly contradicts Google’s own motto “Don’t Be Evil.”
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How do I continuously increase my following on Twitter?
August 20, 2009 – 1:37 pm
I was skimming through the Q&A section of LinkedIn when I found the following question which cuts right to the heart of the ‘Twitter dilemma’ for many users. It was titled: ‘How do I continuously increase my following on Twitter?’
Are Mobile Job Alerts Turning Job Seekers into Pavlov’s Poodle?
August 19, 2009 – 8:59 pm
Still not sold on the need to use twitter, email or mobile job alerts to engage candidates? What if a simple mobile TXT campaign could make a potential candidate get excited, fill them with anticipation and even, pleasure? Would you use it then?
I’d leave my job to work at this place.
July 24, 2009 – 5:56 pm
If you’re bored of recruitment videos that remind you of a PSA spot on ‘local cable,’ or something out of a show on The Learning Channel or Discovery, I have an example of the recruitment video cure.
What you need to know about job seekers’ search engine habits. Part II
July 8, 2009 – 10:28 pm
To put it plainly: they [Job Boards] are large, they target job family and location hybrid search phrases and they attract lots of valuable links. So how do you get your career messaging and opportunities seen by job seekers using search engines? How do you compete with the job board juggernauts?
Do You Have The Best Job In The World?
July 2, 2009 – 6:13 am
Do you have the best job in the world at your organization? Are you hiring for the best job in the world? Wouldn’t it be great if you could reach out to job seekers and say: “Here’s a job you’re going to love.
What you need to know about job seekers’ search engine habits. Part I
June 23, 2009 – 10:18 pm
There is a lot of discussion about using Search Engine Optimization (SEO) to attract job seekers to your career site and even directly to viewing your available positions. What isn’t very clear from these discussions is exactly what you need to focus on optimizing in your pursuit of candidates through organic search engine results. What are the actual words and terms which job seekers are most likely to use when searching? Is there a relationship between certain search phrases and the number of searches performed? To get some perspective on this lets consider…
