Ok, so you are getting 25,000 new applicants each month and your jobs are still open. Well that must suck. You would think gobs of applicants means you are doing great at Talent Acquisition, right? The reality is that most Recruitment departments detrimentally rely on Applicant Tracking Systems and multi-post job board tools, thinking they have [...]
Big ATS Syndrome: 25,000 New Applicants & My Jobs are Still Open!
by Felipe Villasenor on November 17, 2010 in Article
4 Reasons Why SEO is Important to Your Job Site
by Heather R. Huhman on November 15, 2010 in Article
Search engine optimization, or SEO, has become an important buzzword in today’s tech-driven world. When it comes to your careers page or job listings, SEO is vital to reaching your target audience. Did you know that 80 percent of job seekers start their job hunt on a search engine, not a job board? Proper search [...]
Scratch that, Job Boards will die
by Felipe Villasenor on July 22, 2010 in Article, Career Networking
Ok, maybe not so fast, but they are on their way out considering they are not innovating quick enough. Monster invested over $100m on their Power Resume Search which includes the acquisition of Trovix, that is a lot of dough just to search resumes! Now there are thousands of job boards powered by [...]
Referral Recruitment – The current Paradigm Shift
by Felipe Villasenor on July 16, 2010 in Article, Career Networking
Hans Gieskes wrote a good article on ERE.net on why referral recruitment hasn’t really gained a foothold. Many of you may have met or heard of him before, he certainly has a breadth of experience (you can check out his profile here). We are at the cusp of a paradigm shift in the [...]
SEO for Job Sites, Still not Enough – Right On Microsoft!
by Felipe Villasenor on July 12, 2010 in Article, Career Networking
Ok, so I was reading an OLD article but it is still relevant. Marvin Smith at Microsoft knows what he is talking about. Microsoft has a SEO job site by one of our competitors Jobs2Web and as far as SEO goes Marvin says they are getting good results. What it comes down [...]
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