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In-Game Job Recruitment

Agencies are increasingly fighting for the best digital talent. But these days front-end developers are extremely hard to find. There are not many out there. After trying the traditional recruitment advertising the Danish agency Uncle came up with a more creative way to recruit a front-end developer.

In-Game Job Recruitment

The Future Of Mobile Recruitment: implications (part 2)

In four articles I’ll describe the developments in mobile recruitment. In Part 1 the explosion of mobile internet in the coming years and the evolution of online recruitment to mobile was discussed. The implications of mobile devices and the required actions for HR / Recruitment Managers are being described in this article.

A mobile device such as smartphone or tablet typically has:

1.     Mobile internet

2.     Small Screen

3.     Location determination (GPS)

4.     Camera

What are the opportunities and challenges of recruitment of this? Let’s have a look at the impact and actions that are required. The Future Of Mobile Recruitment: implications (part 2)

Jobs for Technicians are the most difficult to fill

ManpowerGroup’s 2011 Annual Talent Shortage Survey surveyed nearly 40,000 employers in 39 countries and territories to discover that more than one third (34%) of employers globally are reporting difficulty finding the talent they need to fill positions. This is a 3% increase over 2010 and the highest percentage since 2007, just before the global recession hit.

The most difficult jobs to fill in 2011:

Jobs for Technicians are the most difficult to fill

Bad Idea: Companies creating Personal Profiles on LinkedIn

Lately I noticed a fast growing trend that companies are creating personal (user) profiles on LinkedIn and start connecting with people and joining groups. As an owner of a large Recruiter group on LinkedIn, Recruitment Consultants with over 64.000 members, I’ m getting 100+ requests per day to join. More and more of these requests are from companies (like NAME .COM) and not from a natural person. Last year I saw 1 out of 200+ requests like that, today it’s approximately 1 out of 50!

But don’t that. It’s a bad idea. I understand that you are trying to build a network around your company but this is not the way. First of all, LinkedIn is a PERSONAL and SOCIAL network and its members expect to connect with real people. People want to connect with people. For this reason it’s not allowed by LinkedIn to “Create a user profile for anyone other than a natural person” (see 10.B.5 of the User Agreement). So all the effort you are putting into it now is a waste of time.Bad Idea: Companies creating Personal Profiles on LinkedIn

New LinkedIn Jobs dashboard includes more metrics

If you are an user of the professional LinkedIn Recruiter solutions you’ll notice some improvements when posting jobs. I like thefact that it’s now easier to post jobs with a new one-page flow including rich-text formatting. Next step is sharing them to your LinkedIn, Facebook and Twitter networks, LinkedIn Groups, or individuals with just a few clicks. These (paid) jobs get premium placement in LinkedIn Groups.

But the biggest improvement is probably Who’s Viewed This Job. You can now measure how often your job has been viewed, applied to, searched for, and shared with others. Each metric includes an anonymized list of viewers and detailed data to help you understand the companies, job functions and locations of the professionals interacting with your jobs.

New LinkedIn Jobs dashboard includes more metrics

Social Media counts

Popular social media platforms are amongst the most visited sites and, nowadays, one of the most popular activities on mobile phones. You’ve probably heard that before but what this REALLY means is shown in this amazing and hypnotic real time display of 48 user, content and business metrics across social media, games, mobile and traditional or heritage media. The data is based on actual reported numbers, which are listed in the embedded info panel, and this rolling ‘count-up counter’ is a projection forward in time based on these real numbers:

Social Media counts