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Monthly Archives: October 2011
Put your Klout to Work for the Unemployed
You’ve heard about this disturbing trend of discrimination against the unemployed, where people without a job basically don’t even get invited for interview because they’re perceived as not good enough.
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Weekly Release: Need Some Yelp for Recruiting
This week, we released a new capability to share reviews for Job Boards.
As announced last week, when you post a job, we bring forward the Best Performing Job Boards. Now you will notice that we also surface Ratings and Reviews
How to Build Effective Recruitment “Talent Pools”
The recruiting industry’s abuzz with social recruiting, but what about Talent Pools? A talent pool is exactly like it sounds. It is a still puddle of job seekers and potential candidates who are eager, interested, and open to hear about your company’s job openings and career opportunities. The problem is that a talent pool, of any substantial size and lifespan, simply doesn’t exist. Pools in themselves are small yet separate pockets of standing water and with the internet, these talent pools and pockets of isolated candidates do not effectively exist.
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Weekly Release: Easy Job Posting and Smart Sourcing
Easy job posting
We’ve improved the job posting functionality so you can quickly create a job, preview it, and post it with one click to job boards, your company website, corporate Facebook page, free sites and social networks.
Is Discrimination Against the Unemployed a Reality?
On Oct. 20 at the Announcement of Facebook’s Social Jobs (their partnership with nonprofits and the government to improve the American Labor Markets), the US Department of Labor Secretary, Hilda Solis, said, “I am very disturbed when I hear that employers don’t want to even look at resumes of people that have been out of work for 6 months or just (are) unemployed. It’s as though people have created this problem themselves, and that’s just not true.”
3 Ways to Nurture Your Employee Alumni
When an employee tenders their resignation and makes their announcement to the world that they are leaving your organization, companies don’t often see this as an Opportunity presented. What I mean is that when your employee gives their notice, the trollers, the shit stirrers, and the negative Nancy’s come out of the woodwork directing their time, energy, and effort to the soon to be ex-employee. Because when most people resign from a company, there’s a reason, and these nay sayers can commiserate, share stories, and share the love or hate of said organization with one another.
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Weekly Release: WordPress Plugin
Job Manager, the WordPress Plugin
This week, we bring the power of SmartRecruiters to the 25 million plus users of WordPress.
Nowadays, almost every company website has a “careers” page. However, building great Careers pages from scratch is challenging and often ends up with a manual process to publish jobs and collect applicants.
SmartRecruiters’ Job Manager plugin solves that problem by letting you:
- Build great careers page in your WordPress environment with full CSS flexibility
- Automate Job Posting straight from your SmartRecruiters software
- Candidate apply online and are consolidated in SmartRecruiters for easy tracking
Weekly release: Boring (but necessary) Stuff
This week we have released some security improvements and fixed some bugs. We also prepared for a cool feature coming up next week…
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Job Ads That Work
The importance of a well written job ad cannot be underestimated. The job ad is your direct medium of communication with a candidate. In reading, a potential candidate quickly forms a lasting impression of your company culture and how that potential candidate envisions daily life at your workplace.
Writing an good job ad optimizes your sourcing investments. I cannot emphasis enough that time spent on writing a good job ad is money saved in your short and long term recruiting budget. A good job ad will reduce time to hire and increase duration of employment. In writing your job ad, I have four broad strokes of advice (followed by a guide on how to optimize each section of a job ad):