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Comment on Recruitment 101 – Communicate with candidates by admin

admin — Wed, 22 Jun 2011 04:40:29 +0000

A quick postscript – the organisation in question has contacted me personally today, which I really appreciated.

An administrative oversight meant that I was not informed of the outcome of the selection process – as I suspected, the organisation chose not to progress to the next step with my application.

The HR rep indicated that the organisation has detailed recruitment process workflows and KPIs in place and that my application slipped the net. Mistakes do happen.

It’s great to see that the organisation has mechanisms for monitoring social media and protecting their online brand – my post was brought to their attention within hours of publishing and they responded perfectly.

All’s well that ends well.

Comment on How to use Twitter and Facebook in recruitment – Thomas Shaw at RecruitTECH 2009 by How to use Twitter and Facebook in recruitment – Capital Jobs « Tech4buziness – Eng

Thu, 26 Nov 2009 15:22:45 +0000

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Comment on How are Canberra's contract recruitment firms faring? by Mark, Recruitment Systems

Mark, Recruitment Systems — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 22:10:54 +0000

Thanks for sharing this Clayton. I didn’t realise that we can access this information through AusTender.

Some of these figures are a bit surprising but it’s good to see some strong figures despite the downtown and Gershon. We are looking forward to seeing our 7 clients on this list post stronger figures over the next half year.

Comment on Local firm Recruitment Systems wins export award by Mark Tayar, Recruitment Systems

Mark Tayar, Recruitment Systems — Mon, 05 Oct 2009 06:08:21 +0000

Thanks for these congratulations Clayton. We will let you know how we go at the nationals.

Comment on Newspaper jobs advertising going the way of the dinosaur by Carey Eaton

Carey Eaton — Sun, 30 Aug 2009 23:50:59 +0000

I might flag a correction in your data source here – these images and graphs are lifted directly from the SEEK FY09 Financial Results powerpoint presentation and include data sources beyond the ANZ Job Ad Series, including Newspoll and internal SEEk Analysis.

Comment on Jobs decline over? Retail figures may suggest otherwise by Veit Schenk

Veit Schenk — Thu, 06 Aug 2009 07:56:38 +0000

it’ll be interesting to see how this affects the number of job applications per opening. Over the last couple of months we’ve seen steady increases of totally untargeted ‘blanked’ applications, sometimes up to 150 per opening — much to the delight of any HR person;-)

Veit

Comment on CV Writing Tips by Erick of CV Builder

Erick of CV Builder — Tue, 04 Aug 2009 10:02:02 +0000

“Include information about your current and previous jobs, including your responsibilities and your achievements.”

I’d like to add emphasis on achievements. These are like gold mines in the eyes of employers/recruiters.

Comment on Great employer brands are winning the talent war by Camilla

Camilla — Mon, 27 Jul 2009 05:17:26 +0000

Another great example of a recruitment video that demonstrates work culture effectively …. Sensis production!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lhVB-GegiOU

Comment on The future of recruitment is at RecruitTECH 2009 by Mike Taylor

Mike Taylor — Fri, 24 Jul 2009 08:15:36 +0000

Hi,

I hope the conference goes well for you.

I have just run the UK’s first Social Media In Recruitment Conference which was held in London last week: http://www.socialmediainrecruitment.com and we had both Facebook and YouTube speaking at the event.

There is definitley a lot of interest from recruiters in social media and how it can be used in recruitment.

Mike Taylor

Comment on Great employer brands are winning the talent war by Sarah Nguyen

Sarah Nguyen — Thu, 23 Jul 2009 14:57:41 +0000

Sarah from Atlassian here. It’s great to hear you list Atlassian as one of the places you’d like to work! It’s definitely an awesome place to be.

I don’t know much about Seek or their culture, but the video you posted above is great – it looks like they’ve got it going on!

Some of the points ‘to consider’ you posted above are hard to get ‘right’, e.g. an easy to articulate and inviting culture, but other aspects like getting back to unsuccessful candidates can easily be taken care of. All of these things tell people something about the company, whether it be the way you get back to unsuccessful candidates (i.e. email: standard run o’ the mill “thanks, but no thanks” rejection emails or something a little more personal/a phone call), to the type of company blogs, videos, etc that you post up.