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The Future Of Mobile Recruitment: Checklist (part 3)

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 were described in part 2.

Here’s a quick checklist to see if your career site is ‘future proof’ for candidates visiting via a mobile device. Because they will do so! And in the near future they will do this more frequent and expect a good user experience. Therefore, be prepared and perform the following checklist.

The Future Of Mobile Recruitment: Checklist (part 3)

LinkedIn member profile widget: pimp your website or blog

Widgets are basic visual building blocks which, combined in an application, hold all the data processed by the application and the available interactions on this data. small software programs or code that can be integrated into websites or blogs (source: Wikipedia]. LinkedIn offers such a plugin, in javascript code, which can be used to display a short personal profile when you click on the IN-logo:

LinkedIn Profile Widget Jacco

LinkedIn member profile widget: pimp your website or blog

Monster launches Recruitment iPad App in Europe

Today Monster will officially launch their new iPad Recruitment App in most European countries. They promise to “Find great jobs when you’re on the go“:

  • Simple: Search and apply for jobs with the touch of a finger.
  • Convenient: Access your Monster account anywhere, anytime.
  • Innovative: Find jobs in a whole new way with the Monster app designed specifically for iPad.

Starting the app takes a few seconds and in the first screen it will ask you to log in to your Monster account. You can skip this step but the possibilities within the App are very limited. You can only search for jobs, and not apply, without an account. So keep your login information at hand as you need it!Monster launches Recruitment iPad App in Europe

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

New iPhone App available for Recruitment Consultants with news and tips from around the world

At Global Recruiting Roundtable we have collected a large number of interesting blogs related to Recruitment, Employer Branding and Human Resource Management. News and advice comes from many blogs and sites around the globe. This large collection of expert articles and international news is now available at your fingertips with our free Global Recruiting Roundtable iPhone app!

This great mobile application makes it easier and faster to read articles from leading HRM and Recruitment blogs on your iPhone, iPod Touch and iPad. The messages are categorized into 5 tabs for easy browsing:

  1. Roundtable: all articles from this blog, the Global Recruiting Roundtable
  2. Global: the most interesting recruitment related articles and news from around the world
  3. Careertip: great collection of job seeking and career tips from (career) coaches worldwide
  4. ERE.net: full version of the latest ERE.net articles
  5. Karriere: HR and Recruitment news specially for German speakers

ThisĀ  app is FREE to use and download from the iTunes App Store via this link, Global Recruiting Roundtable iPhone app, or search by keywords ‘Recruiting Roundtable’.

New iPhone App available for Recruitment Consultants with news and tips from around the world