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Swedish Armed Forces: Who Cares?

Do you really care about other people? Would you give up your freedom to help others? Would you enter a room not knowing when you might get out? Tough questions to answers. Who cares? is a controversial, almost creepy, ambient interactive project that challenged the Swedish to prove if they are ready to help people in need.

Swedish Armed Forces: Who Cares?

12 Mobile Recruitment Applications (part 4)

In the past three articles I’ve described the latest 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 reviewed. The implications of mobile devices and the required actions for HR / Recruitment Managers were described in part 2. In part 3 a short checklist was provided to see if your career site is ‘future proof’ for candidates visiting via a mobile device.

I will conclude here with some mobile solutions that show what already is technically possible to support your recruitment and selection process:

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12 Mobile Recruitment Applications (part 4)

80% of all companies use Social Media to recruit

Is recruiting via social media effective? And how do you determine wether those efforts are succesful? That’s the question being asked as more and more businesses are investing in increasing amounts of social media recruiting.  With no standard means of measurement, there’s a wide variety of goals and metrics used to define the ROI of social strategies. Currently 64% of companies said they have succesfully hired via social media. Already 80.2% of companies are using Social Media to recruit and another 8.7% of companies are planning to begin this year (results of Jobvite survey, July 2011).

80% of all companies use Social Media to recruit

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)

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)