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Next generation mobile recruitment apps become social

For over one year, we have mobile Apps in the iTunes Store specifically designed for Recruiters, HRM and Employer Branding specialists to follow the latest news on the iPhone (and also on Android Phone and Windows 7). In the latest version we go social! Now you can profile yourself*, like, share and comment on articles. You can also follow the activities of other users in the community!

Check out the new Recruiting Roundtable iPhone app and download it directly from the iTunes Store. Next generation mobile recruitment apps become social

Start your workday with LinkedIn Today

LinkedIn launched another new product last week: LinkedIn Today. LinkedIn Today delivers the day’s top news, tailored to you based on what your connections and industry peers are reading and sharing. According to Liz Reaves Walker from LinkedIn, “Staying on top of industry news is something we think matters for any professional whose success depends on being well informed.  With all the news websites, blogs, tweets and newsletters out there, staying in-the-know can be time consuming and it’s increasingly hard to figure out what matters most when reading news across multiple sources.” LinkedIn promises to deliver this now.

Have a look at the introduction video from LinkedIn:

Start your workday with LinkedIn Today

Career Site and Social Media Recruitment activities go mobile at PepsiCo

Mobile recruiting is becoming increasingly popular to reach a target audience ‘anytime, anywhere’. Moreover, candidates start expecting that the information they are looking for is easily accesible via their mobile devices. With the latest generation of Mobile Apps and, now also iPad Apps, it’s never been easier to stay current on what’s happening around career possibilities or to connect with the talent.

The team at PepsiCo understands this very well and made a new mobile suite of Apps available today. With the new Possibilities… application you’ll now have the latest video, tweets, blog entries, job search tools and alerts all in the palm of your hand. And wow, it looks good!

Connect:
At your fingertips you’ll find the latest video releases from PepsiCo, updates from
the ‘Living the Promise’ employee blog and have the chance to read and respond
to the latest tweets from the recruiting team behind @PepsiCoJOBS

Career Site and Social Media Recruitment activities go mobile at PepsiCo

Twitter and LinkedIn. What’s happening?

I’m finalising my research for a new 2011 edition of my book ‘Recruitment via LinkedIn‘ and noticed a strange thing. The number of Tweets in my growing list of connections has dropped considerably.

Four months ago, on 20 September 2010, I had 425 direct connections out of approximately 1150 who added their Twitter account to their LinkedIn profile. That’s approximately one third of total connections. But yesterday, more than 4 months later, I noticed that only 294 of my, slowly growing number of 1263, connections were on Twitter. Or I should say, 23% have added their Twitter account to their LinkedIn profile. This means a drop of 131 (-10%) !

Twitter and LinkedIn. What’s happening?

Global Employment Trends 2011: The challenge of a jobs recovery

The annual Global Employment Trends (GET) report provides the latest global and regional estimates of employment and unemployment, employment by sector, vulnerable employment, labour productivity and working poverty, while also analysing country-level issues and trends in the labour market. Taking into account macroeconomic trends and forecasts, the GET includes a short-term outlook for labour markets around the world.

Download the full report here [10MB, 107 pages]

This report is the first to take stock of the labour market situation during the recovery from the global economic crisis. It incorporates the most recent labour market information available to explore the state of the labour market globally and regionally. Global Employment Trends 2011: The challenge of a jobs recovery