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Tapping into the Hidden Job Market - Essential Online/Offline Networking Strategies3:05pm Thursday 21 May 2009
Tags: job seekers strategies annemarie cross webinar keith keller career advice networking hidden job market online vs offline Sending out numerous applications but never seem to get any responses? Still waiting for that perfect job opportunity, which never seems to be advertised? Limited job opportunities presenting themselves? Studies have shown that between 70% to 80% of job opportunities are never advertised - termed the 'hidden job market'.
read more...Upcoming Webinar - Using Facebook for Recruitment12:14pm Thursday 21 May 2009
Tags: facebook using facebook for recruitment facebook applications webinar thomas shaw Have you tried recruiting on Facebook? Do you manually click through profiles and post messages on group profiles? Guess what, you have already created your first mistake! If you are like most online recruiters, then more than likely you are concerned about how to grow traffic to your website and increase sales and placements.
read more...Surviving a Redundancy - 10 strategies to get yourself and your career back on track3:34pm Tuesday 19 May 2009
Tags: keith keller webinar annemarie cross redundancy strategies job seekers retrenchment career advice Below is a live recording of today’s webinar with Keith Keller and Annemarie Cross on “Surviving a Redundancy: 10 strategies to get yourself and your career back on track” You can register for other upcoming webinars here
read more...Search Engine Marketing (SEM)12:10am Tuesday 19 May 2009
Tags: search engine marketing search engine optimisation seo sem google adwords yahoo search marketing recruitment marketing search engines pay per click ppc Search Engine Marketing (SEM) is term that describes marketing a website using various techniques to make it more visible on search engines. Search Engine Marketing techniques include search engine optimization (SEO), buying Pay Per Click (PPC) ads or using a combination of both of these options.
read more...Upcoming Webinar - Advanced Twitter use for Recruitment11:03pm Monday 18 May 2009
Tags: webinar thomas shaw advanced twitter twitter recruitment advanced twitter use in recruitment online recruitment tips social recruiting xray search Following up from our previous webinar "Using Twitter for Recruitment", Recruitment Directory is proud to present an advanced training session presented by leading Online Recruitment Specialist, Thomas Shaw. Nearly 800 people have listened to Thomas teach Recruiters the basic principles and techniques on how to use Twitter.
read more...Recruitment Genome Report 20099:47pm Sunday 17 May 2009
Tags: survey report arbita recruitment genome report 2009 blogs social networking talent sources smo seo recruitment strategy candidates marketing strategy technology job boards The first installment of the Recruitment Genome Report 2009 titled "Act While Others Wait: Savvy Recruitment Marketing Strategies Now Ensure Success While Others Wait for Better Times" was released yesterday by Arbita. The reports authors are leading US industry figures who compiled the survey data between Jan 23 - Mar 16 2009.
read more...SEEK increases job advert expiry to 45 days5:34pm Sunday 17 May 2009
Tags: seek job ads job board expiry date error strategy analyst geoff jennings seek.com.au Great news for all SEEK advertisers. They have changed the default job advert expiry length from 30 days to 45 days! Oh no, hang on... on second look, this only applies for jobs posted under the SEEK Ltd advertiser account.
read more...HTML Special Character #39 - The Apostrophe11:23am Friday 15 May 2009
Tags: testing search form online recruitment recruitment agency job board html special characters apostrophe talent2 scott recruitment ross human directions linkme legal jobs centre jobspeed jobs.co.nz jobsjobsjobs greythorn dfp recruitment clements archijobs absolute security hacking If you do not encode special characters in web forms, you run the risk of breaking the search query or the ability to insert malicious code into the database. Hackers can infiltrate your website, potentially stealing confidential data or deleting the database. I am not going to go into the technical reasons why this happens, but in most cases it is a very easy fix.
read more...Is your username available?9:33pm Thursday 14 May 2009
Tags: username social networks username availability namechk social networking sites brand identity brand management It is becoming more difficult to maintain the same username across a growing list of social networking sites. In such a situation where you are unable to obtain the desired username, you will have to settle for your 2nd preference which may hurt your identity and social network presence.By entering only a username, NameChk can instantly show you if your desired/branded username is available at various social networking sites.
read more...URL Shortening9:08pm Thursday 14 May 2009
Tags: tr.im tinyurl url shortening twitter bit.ly url url redirection Popular URL shortening service http://tr.im was offline for a number of hours today. Millions of URL links were broken and users were redirected to a error page (image below). It begs the question - should you host/manage your own URL shortening service or rely on a 3rd party?
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