Although there are many research reports on social networking, most of them are commercial. Good unbiased research is hard to find but the survey from PEW is strong. Read this report if you recruit globally… Technology Report: Worldwide usage of Social networking and Cell phones
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When you conduct a People (Advanced) Search it’s often useful to narrow down your search results on a specific industry. For you as a job seeker, it’s useful to search for decision makers in companies… Tip: Refine your LinkedIn search on 147 industries
Most resumes are standard and boring. Yet there are many who are creative and beautiful. For example this horror resume from Joe Kelso, a 29 year old Creative Specialist and Digital Photographer: This series of… Horror Resume 17.0
Newsweek has launched a Career Tree tool, based on LinkedIn API, that traces the branches of your education and work life, and lets you connect with others who share similar paths. Every addition causes your… Build Your Career Tree Today
I’m very proud to launch the World’s First* recruitment related website build 100% in HTML5; www.recruit2.com HTML5 is the next major revision of the HTML standard, currently under development. Like its immediate predecessors, HTML 4.01… Launching World’s First HTML5 Recruitment Website
You may have noticed that there are now Open Groups on LinkedIn. In those groups, you can see and join discussions without first becoming a member.
The rollout of this option to group owners will ramp up over the coming weeks. In open groups anyone on the Web will be able to view and share the group’s new discussions, making it possible for more professionals than ever to discover the group’s valuable conversations and vastly expanding the reach of participants’ contributions.
All existing groups will remain members-only unless the group owner proactively chooses to switch the group to open.New types of groups on LinkedIn
LinkedIn Labs launches the possibility to make a ‘personal’ document based on your LinkedIn profile to use it as a downloadable Resume as you like it and make it visible to who-ever you decide. You… NEW at LinkedIn: The Resume Builder
I never heard of the company Atlassian until I attended the International Conference Employer Branding last week. A 30-minute prezi was given by Sherila Karimov EMEA Director. They are a 225-people Australian-based enterprise software company with offices around the world who take a really great Google-like approach to HR and Recruitment.
One of the things that I found intriguing and certainly worth considering is their set of rules to deal with Recruitment Agencies. Any recruiter that wants to work with Atlassian must follow these 3 rules:
You choose how many candidates your agency wishes to submit. The fees reduce if you wish to refer more candidates. The maximum number of candidate referals we allow is 4.You can’t empty your candidate database into our inbox
A quick and plain English intro the micro-blogging service Twitter: