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E-recruitment in Retail
From humble beginnings, lots of tweets and a last minute girly weekend gatecrash #socreccamp was upon us.The online community were coming together to as one. But how would they manage to communicate without a signal? Would they all fit into one tent? Would Devon survive such a technophone incoming? Would anyone die? As Chief Unorganiser of #socrecamp I need to share my experience amongst the rest of the world of the secret weekend. What started off as a self-invite (by me) to the girls weekend in Exeter of @sarknight @lisascales @wendyjacob and @saraheadworthended up as a real surf adventure of...
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E-recruitment in Retail
I wrote a post earlier this week Corporate Recruiters help Agencies thrive and survive. Well, in the business world of marketing it seems life is not much different when it comes to automation and tracking! Read this post over at Infusionsoft Interesting Stats on B2B Marketing & Sales for some views. The table below is from the Marketing Sherpa report which is what the Infusionsoft report was based on. The terms in the table from a recruiting persepctive convert as below: CRM = ATS. Lead = Candidate. Revenue = Hire. The real point though is that recruitment is sales and...
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E-recruitment in Retail
According to a recent survey by Intercall students in the US are attending their courses "virtually" rather than in person. This may not be that new i.e. students lie in bed rather than attend lectures (not true of course!) but now, they can lie in bed and watch the lecture online or a recorded version etc. You can read more about this www.intercall.com. What is interesting though is how this could impact graduate recruitment. We are about to enter the graduate recruiting season and let's be honest, it is must be a full time activity applying for graduate vacancies with...
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E-recruitment in Retail
It seems everything social wants to add your location these days.Some people seem to be fine with this whereas others don't. But, I think it could have quite a significant impact on recruitment. Or will it? Oh no it won't! Of course people who use the various social sites know all about the locational aspects and have their privacy settings fully locked down. They are hardly going to publicise they have gone for an interview are they now? So, recruitment will not be impacted at all. Any opportunities of using these sites/apps as part of your social recruiting strategy is...
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E-recruitment in Retail
An interesting post on Stephen O'Donnell's blog Aye Right called The end of the CV database started me thinking about how the whole issue of "who owns the candidate". The person who really "owns" the candidate is of course the candidate but they go where they choose to get a job; be it direct or indirect. But don't for one second think that direct is always the best route. Retailers continually fight off the manufacturers in the same way that Agencies will continually fight off corporate recruiters. Take the example of Amazon and eBay. Both have thrived yet the major...
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E-recruitment in Retail
I have been running my Corporate Recruiters Survey for the last few weeks and one particular question was around their ATS and how well their Vendor looked after them. This amongst many of the other questions has thrown up some interesting data as you will see below just on the beloved ATS. For anyone who would like a copy of the final report please take the survey. So here's the first question. Not everyone is using an ATS still. Not of course a big surprise but is it saying that up to 74 of the respondents do NOT have an...
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E-recruitment in Retail
As you may know I am a BIG fan of Starbucks and have been waiting with anticipation to see their new UK career site. It is now of course as to be expected - in my opinion very nice aesthetically and engaging. But, already there have been comments on the ATS (Taleo) integration and how "ugly" it is. But, does it actually matter? I agree that it is hardly a seamless, nicely branded transition but to be honest very few if any ATS integrations are. Of course some will bleat on about how THEIR integration is seamless but that is...
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E-recruitment in Retail
I am still asked "Who has the best career site?" There are many great looking sites but that means nothing if the owner has no idea about measurement and performance. Using a swimming analogy, the training needs to be specific for the race. Times show performance and levels of improvement. Training is tweaked accordingly based on results. And on it goes. Clear goals in mind, specific activities to improve performance, measures to show improvements/losses. Over the years I have worked with many clients who have a goal(!) i.e. recruit enough people but do not have the "training" in place or...
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E-recruitment in Retail
I blogged about the concept of integrating a career site with a Facebook Page in February but this takes it a step further. A lot of people (job seekers and recruiters) feel Facebook is for Friends and Linkedin is for Business Contacts which I do accept. However, most of my friends have jobs and it is useful to know when they have moved. But also for an employer brand, if they could connect their career site with their new employees Facebook profiles they could do some clever communication activities such as: Your Friend Fred has just started a new job...
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E-recruitment in Retail
The Talent Pool. The holy grail of recruiting. Many recruiters claim to have one yet in reality very few do. But the technology has been out there a long time and the concept is not new. So what should you be doing? You have to think like a marketing department rather than a recruitment business. There are so many stats about the percentage of active job seekers versus passive job seekers but either way, people are at different stages of their job hunting and the passive candidate is going to be less inclined to go through an entire registration process...
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