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It's becoming harder to find appropriate candidates
9:00am Tuesday 28 September 2010
Tags: recruitment statistics recruitment industry statistics rcsa.com.au rcsa rcsa quarterly business manager survey statistics

The latest RCSA Quarterly Business Manager Survey (Apr - Jun 2010) focused on a number of on-hire and contract employment questions. The survey notes that both business confidence and expectations of growth have eased since April. Growth has dropped from its historic high 1 point to 72.5 while members expect next quarter’s business volumes to drop to 7.9% compared with last round's level of 8.9%. read more...


2010 Email Marketing Benchmark Report - HR/Recruitment Sector
1:46pm Monday 02 August 2010
Tags: email marketing sign-up.to uk email marketing benchmark report statistics email metrics email open rates

The latest Sign-Up.to 2010 UK Email Marketing Benchmark Report (Q1 & 2) analysed over 200 million email marketing messages sent through their online marketing platform in the 6 months from 1st January - 30th June 2010. The breakdown of statistics by sector did not paint a very flattering picture for the HR/Recruitment industry. read more...


NZ Public Service Workforce Data
12:44pm Monday 24 May 2010
Tags: data.govt.nz nz public service workforce data statistics dataset human resource capability public service employment public service staff numbers state services commission gov2.0

Governments across the world are starting to make public sector information available to increase their openness and transparency by publishing raw data online. By having publicly available data sets, it stimulates innovation and leads to economic benefits by allowing researchers to perform their own analysis and developers to create useful applications. read more...


Recruiting Analytics that Matter
1:43pm Wednesday 17 March 2010
Tags: analytics online recruitment job board applicant tracking system recruitment analytics statistics newton software newtonsoftware.com recruitment software

Newton Software has put together a simple guide to getting started with recruiting analytics. The recruiting analytics that you decide to capture should answer the most common questions that arise in recruiting. read more...


Mobile Device Statistics & Mobile Application behaviour. AdMob Mobile Metrics report
10:13pm Tuesday 02 March 2010
Tags: admob mobile device statistics mobile statistics iphone applications admob mobile metrics admob.com mobile recruitment mobile recruiting native mobile applications iphone job search android iphone webos itouch ipod australian mobile statistics product development mobile operating system statistics

Lately, I have been working on new product development ideas around the use of mobile devices for a number of recruitment clients. Our discussions always seem to come back to this one question... Should we build a specific mobile application for the platform or optimise our existing website? read more...


Could social media soon replace email?
8:40pm Thursday 10 December 2009
Tags: facebook email address email marketing facebook developers communication channels social media email people from cossette 2010 marketing trends statistics strongmail

A recent study by Canadian company PEOPLE FROM COSSETTE, made the observation that social media could soon replace email as a means of sharing information. Could it be true? Facebook doesn’t think so and is planning a number of platform upgrades to share the users email addresses. But, could both of these marketing channels together destroy other forms of communication? read more...


Job Ad Click Through Destination Statistics & Posting Methods Recruiters use on Twitter & Facebook
2:00pm Friday 20 November 2009
Tags: facebook job boards api ats rss feed statistics twitter recruiters recruitment agency using facebook for recruitment using twitter for recruitment social recruiting

I have just finished collating statistics studying the job ad "click through destination" and "posting methods" Recruiters are using on Twitter and Facebook. I looked at 100 different Australian Recruitment Agency/Recruiters who post job ads to Twitter or Facebook. read more...


96% of Recruiters source Candidates through mainstream Job Boards
10:30pm Wednesday 04 November 2009
Tags: rcsa rcsa.com.au candidate sources sources of talent survey talentsource.com.au job boards social networking niche job boards networking events referrals statistics ih-house job board refer a friend business networking sites trade magazines virtual communication channels rcsa quarterly business manager survey

The RCSA has just released the latest Quarterly Business Manager Survey results for the 3rd Quarter 2009. Contained within the past 2 surveys, is a question regarding the "media used to source candidates". Although the survey is only a small sample of Recruitment Agencies across Australia & New Zealand, I have grouped together the past 2 survey results, to better represent any trends over the past 6 months. read more...


It's all about the numbers
11:09am Wednesday 23 September 2009
Tags: statistics analytics statistical manipulation hit counter search results misleading and deceptive conduct number of jobs number of job applications number of registered candidates number of registered employers number of candidates database statistics

Have you ever been to a job site where you looked at the hit counter and just scratched your head? read more...


Recruitment Marketing Analytics
12:00pm Wednesday 02 September 2009
Tags: recruitment marketing online marketing job boards advertising job adverts recruitment marketing analytics data analytics ctr click through rate statistics ad views apply clicks application form application rate cpv cost per view cpc cost per click cpa cost per applicant recruitment metrics ratios sources of hire sources of talent

It puzzles me how recruiters are not making informed and calculated decisions on their recruitment marketing spend. Are you measuring the performance of each job advert via each source? Which sources are the best performing, provide the largest volume and have the lowest candidate acquisition cost? read more...


Complicated Application Form Processes
2:10pm Tuesday 01 September 2009
Tags: application form online recruitment statistics churn rate ats crm candidate registration form recruitment agency

I am not a fan of long and complicated job application forms. Do you really need a candidate to register for an account before they can apply for a job? No. Registration details can be automatically generated after a form is submitted by using the candidates email address (as the primary id) and a randomly generated password. read more...


Sharing Jobs on Social Networks using JobGenie
9:00pm Sunday 30 August 2009
Tags: jobgenie jobgenie.com.au facebook facebook.com linkedin linkedin.com twitter twitter.com social referrals social networking social media referrals api riges younan statistics reporting social network integration referral recruitment facebook connect

Last week, I decided to test drive a new referral system called JobGenie, brainchild of Riges Younan. JobGenie is a candidate referral platform which takes the hassle out of managing a referral program. The platform can manage, track and monitor candidates that are referred for a job. read more...


When will Print die? Online vs Print
7:00am Thursday 27 August 2009
Tags: online recruitment job boards print media job adverts anz job advertisements series job seeker preference statistics revenue model online vs print

79% of jobs advertised in Australia are online, 73% of job seekers prefer online compared with print. But that only equates to 39% of the overall $$ advertising spend in the marketplace. Clearly, the structural shift in how people look for work proves that using print media is a waste. read more...


Where did you hear about this job? Tracking Candidate Sources
1:07am Friday 03 July 2009
Tags: ats applicant tracking system application tracking system atsreportcard.com sources of hire tracking statistics allretailjobs.com jake firth sourcing data job boards recruitment marketing metrics sources of hire sources of talent

Do you track where your candidates have come from? If you are using some sort of application tracking system (ATS) in your recruitment process; more than likely you have the ability to automatically track where the candidate has come from. read more...