Digg DiggWill you advertise on Facebook or in the traditional proven media like newspapers or radio? I was talking to some postgraduate business and IT students (Overeducated and under experienced for Jobs of tomorrow) and asked them who has the Facebook account. I wanted to show how deep the Facebook penetration actually is. I got [...]
Social Networks are here! Recruitment and sourcing in particular is changing. Job Boards that the recruitment agencies have been relying for as their main source of candidates are getting smaller role to play today. The future for the job boards is not extremely bright either. Their dominance is being replaced by the social networks. There [...]
… when all the personal branding channels are combined. In no particular order: 1. Social networks presence – descriptive public profile combined with the active participation in discussions. 2. Personal Blog 3. Presence on the Corporate Blog 4. Any online publication (indexed by Google) The real power of all your online presence is in the [...]
Here are just two facts first: 1. Revenues of online job boards are falling 2. Social networks are (still!) gaining popularity Why are job boards in trouble all of the sudden after being profitable for more than 10 years? The troubled world economy that hit the recession in the second half of the 2008 and [...]
Silicon Republic, Ireland’s leading technology news web site published a nice review of Jobs Blog: Ivan Stojanovic works in the recruitment industry and operates EmployIreland.ie. JobsBlog.ie is where he waxes lyrical on the topic. He keeps us up to date on the latest seminars, talks, new sites and companies, and tackles issues like ’10 don’ts [...]
Irish Recruiters LinkedIN Group got together in the a form of a Recruitment Conference. It was great to see so many friends together, thank you all for coming! We all need to say a BIG: Thank You to Declan Fitzgerald who organised it all again so well! Pictures? Well this time around I decided I [...]
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 [...]
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