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SimplyHired.co.uk has released it’s first annual Today’s Job Seeker report for the UK market. Based on the results of more than 60 user polls conducted on the site since October 2009, the report provides the industry’s most comprehensive picture of job seekers and their interests, behaviours and motivations. To download the full report visit http://scr.bi/ukjobseekerreport. [...]

I have spent most of the last week with Facebook and Google in their fancy Dublin offices. One word I have been hearing over and over: Maximize. They used the word Maximize in every second sentence. It is absolutely unbelievable on how many places you can put that word and almost not lose the meaning [...]

The social media is leaving scars on the traditional advertising models. How your brand is represented on Facebook is far more important than the article in Irish Times. Why? Simply because of it far greater reach. Far more people read Facebook than Irish Times. Far, far more, and the gap is getting bigger each day. [...]

A company is hiring a blogger / social media person. Senior management have spent a lot of time defining the position. They couldn’t really make up their mind if that is a web (hence IT) position or a marketing position. Number of different people contributed to the job specification. The required skills list had 50 [...]

Creating your personal and or company brand is a delicate act on the social networking sites. You really need to be genuine, positive, honest, and stand behind anything you say. And that is something in the contradiction with the main task – being Active. What do you say on a web 2.0 sites – if [...]

Since the economy bottomed out and took scores of Irish jobs with it, purveyors of job boards have seen corporate customers curb or cut contracts at the same time they’ve dealt with an influx of résumé postings from the newly unemployed. More companies also are adding job postings and career centers to their Web sites, [...]

Do you or your company use social media networking or social media to support recruitment efforts? 76% plan to invest in employee referrals 72% plan to increase their use of social networks 66% have successfully hired a candidate identified or introduced through an online social network Jobvite also asked employers to list the social networks [...]

I just love analyzing the statistical data. Where is a LinkedIN poll: What is the most important new platform for brands to master: Digg, Facebook, iPhone, LinkedIn, Twitter ? Twitter 36% Facebook 29% iPhone 17% LinkedIN 15% Digg 1% Great! Now let’s put this into the perspective. This is a poll on the LinkedIN page. [...]

Don’t be too technical or industry specific in your profile Don’t jump on a social networking site and give the perception that you’re desperately looking for a job — just “taking” and not “giving” Don’t wait until you’re laid off before building out your social networks and staying active Don’t forget to check out your [...]

Social Networking, Blogging, Recruitment 2.0, an all the other buzz words do not mean anything until all those technologies are utilised, and utilised properly. It is actually quite easy to embrace it all, or any part of it, and make absolutely nothing. How many web sites, job sites, blogs social networks or internet projects in [...]

Is it a dawn ow the job boards with all the Facebook, LinkedIN and the rest of them popping up? Or is there a space for both to coexist, perhaps in an semi integrated / partnership way? Would it not be nice if you would get an Job Applicatin with a CV and a link [...]