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How much would you pay to increase your Linkedin connections, recommendations as well as search ranking? Guess what? It's worth $5
But what else can you get for $5 ? Reference checking, fake references, resume services, job ad writing, professional services and even shortlisting services.
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I have to give credit to new players entering the market. But basing success on a questionable metric is not a smartest move.
Are job aggregators, job boards?
One of the main problems of aggregating (or scraping) job ads is understanding when the job ad is unique, changed, or has been expired. You have to constantly scrape, compare and update your main database with the changes to ensure the users of the site are not redirected to expired job ads!
I had a quick look at a new site called
uWorkin (jobs are pulled from MyCareer, Gumtree, Careerone, direct employers, etc). But they might want to check other job aggregation providers like Indeed, Recruit.net or Jobseeker.com.au to work out where they sit in the marketplace.
When you compare aggregators, you have to consider the number of duplicate job ads from multiple sources and weigh up the % of expired job ads.
Aggregators are not the primary source of the job, they can be the 2nd, 3rd, 4th or even 5th copy of the original job ad. But
the credit for the application is always given to the primary source where the job application has been submitted.If I look at this obscure job title, it is the same job ad from multiple sources.
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Product Manager - Circuit Breakers And Lv Switchgear" sourced from AussieRecruitment (JobG8), Reinvent Your Career (JobG8) and CareerOne.
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Hey recruitment industry.... Time to change your passwords. Here are 2 of the 100 or so message I have had over the past week.
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It's great to showcase an innovative job ad from Kenya formatted in code.
If you are having trouble reading the job ad, Frontline SMS (a non-profit organisation in Kenya) is looking for a Software Developer to join their team
http://dev.frontlinesms.com/jobs/
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I nearly wet myself seeing this innovative way of applying for a job. For those IT professionals, this will interest you. Well done
Parse.
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I love all the hype around mobile recruitment. Apparently, QR codes are all the rage at the moment. Hands up those who have a QR code reader on their phone. Most likely the answer is QR what?
QR codes have been around for a number of years. I wrote about
using QR codes in the recruitment process a while back and have used them for a number of client campaigns - but even with the best execution, the %CTR is very low.
One of the best things about QR codes is that you can embed nearly any type of content into the design. But there is a downside to this. You can maliciously disrupt others recruitment campaigns, download malware onto the users device, or send them to other malicious websites/applications!
This threat has been labeled "attaging" or "attack tagging". You might be interested to read a while paper on the subject called
Using QR Tags to Attack Smart Phones
The user has little or no idea about what they are scanning with their phone by just looking at it. It's not until your phone reader software has processed the code and converted it into text/image that you realise what you are about to click through to.
For more information this up threat, check out these links.
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Victoria Police is currently recruiting for over 900 Protective Service Officers to be stationed across our public transport network.
The recruitment campaign started last month and is currently using a number of mediums to advertise these jobs.
Part of the recruitment campaign involves 2 way SMS function where interested job seekers can SMS "Apply" or "Ready" to 132001 (for those in Australia) and then receive a SMS reply with the application details.
This 2 way SMS process is something we have talked about before....
Users can SMS shortcodes to a phone number (which can be tracked against particular campaigns) and receive more information.
In this example, the response from the system allows us to interact a second time by replying with our email address for an application pack.
But remember, 2 way SMS is not cheap. It may cost an intial setup fee for the shortcode/software and then a cost for each message sent and received.
For more ideas on using SMS in the recruitment process you can read my other posts
SMS in Recruitment,
SMS Job Alerts, and
SMS referral programs.
What could you do with 20GB of your competitors sensitive email correspondence without anyone even noticing? A
report released by security researchers analysing the effect of doppelganger domain traffic belonging to Fortune 500 companies was able to collect 20GB of misaddressed email over a 6 month period.
A doppelganger domain name is one that is spelled the same as the original, but missing the "." between the subdomain name, the qualified domain and/or the extension;
For example, you could setup a doppelganger domain name called "audrakeint.com" as opposed to the real email country prefix of "au.drakeint.com"
Off the top of my head, I can think of at least 5 other large brands with email subdomains you could attempt this passive attack against including
au.nestle.com
au.pwc.com
au.ey.com
au.unisys.com
au.westfield.com
But, let's get back to how this could affect online recruitment.
If you read the research findings, you will notice that some of the most popular keywords contained in these emails are - secret, private, userid, password, login, confidentiality, invoice, and yes.. RESUME
Who in your organisation is responsible for sending resumes to clients?
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PayCheck Plus
Posted By: Thomas Shaw, 1:29pm Monday 05 September 2011   |
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The Fair Work Ombudsman has released an online web application which helps you automatically calculate pay and penalty rate entitlements under modern awards.
PayCheck Plus enables you to calculate base pay rates, allowances, overtime, and penalty rates of pay per hour. You can also calculate pay rates for entire shifts worked over a seven day period. You can print, export or save your selections.
There are two different sections of PayCheck Plus - "check my pay" and "check my payroll"
Check my payThe ‘Check my pay’ option in the tool has been designed for you to search by job title. It calculates rates of pay for an individual classification. ‘Check my pay’ is the default screen when you open the tool. You do not have to know your exact award, but you will be asked a series of questions about the job you are enquiring about.
Check my payrollThe ‘Check my payroll’ option in the tool is more advanced and has been designed to provide you with the ability to match and calculate pay rates for multiple employees. This option can be accessed by selecting it in the tab at the top of the tool. You will be asked for your modern award or industry as well as some other information about yourself.
Try the site out for yourself
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At last! SEEK's new application export function (or as I like to call it "job application webservice") is live and ready to go. Kudos to Jobadder for being the first to implement this new function for their clients.
It's quite interesting to find out, that a large percentage of jobs listed on SEEK (NZ ~39% and AU ~49%) link out to 3rd party application forms. This form could be your recruitment website, multi-posting system or directly back into your ATS/recruitment database.
SEEK's linkout % figure was higher than I first expected. It must be increasingly hard for them to explain to clients WHY there is such a discrepancy in metrics from
application form views > linkout clicks and THEN provided with some unverified application metrics through the clients own system.
"You said I had 40 linkouts to my providers application form, but I only received 14 applications! Where did the other 26 go?"If it was my job board, I would want the advertiser to know the exact metrics my site was achieving:
ad views > application form views > successful applications!But there has also always been a number of technical problem linking out to 3rd party forms. Not to mention 20 page application forms are so 2005 (yes, talking about you PageUp, Taleo, NGA, etc.).
It's not the first job board to recognise this problem. JobG8 and a number of other job boards and solution providers have had this function available for a number of years.
The question you should be asking yourself is... Can you put a $ figure on the number of candidates you may be loosing through a 3rd party application form?
5 reasons why you should reconsider 3rd party application forms
- If you have a popup blocker installed on your browser, there is a very small chance the application form may be blocked, unable to load, or unable to render for your device.
- Duty of care. You could be referring users to insecure, unresponsive websites (ie TurboRecruit's DDoS attack in 2009) or expired forms. Perhaps even redirecting users to identity thieves.
- Candidates are unable to use stored candidate profile/resumes on an existing job board to apply for jobs using the 3rd party form.
- Pop up forms don't work on mobile devices.
- But most of all, this slight change in process will improve the candidates application experience!
On the flip side, the solution provider that needs to receive the candidates application is still receiving the application, but through a different medium. ie, the webservice.
Solution providers should embrace this move. In the end the candidate will have a better experience and the client will see an improved job application process!
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- all job ads are on SEEK (except for Jigsaw's apparently)
- a subset of those will also generally appear on CareerOne and/or MyCareer
- SEEK do not allow their site to be scraped so their ads are never (legally) aggregated
- the job aggregation model is fundamentally broken and is an unsatisfactory user experience
- the "next big thing" in job boards is nothing of the sort