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Articles posted on August 2010

Stand out from the crowd - Using Embedded Objects in Job Ads
2:30pm Tuesday 17 August 2010
Tags: oembed.com oembed embedly embed.ly api using video in recruitment video job ads job board online recruitment youtube media objects rich media regular expressions slideshare

Have you ever wanted to add a video, slideshare presentation, a chat room or some other 3rd party media objects into your job ads? Nearly all job board software restricts the advertiser from placing HTML embedded code into job ads. So, wouldn't it be cool if you can just paste a URL and it automatically creates the embedded object without having the user copy and paste the code? read more...


IT Video Resume - Killa Appz
4:33pm Monday 09 August 2010
Tags: using video in recruitment video cv youtube daveberzack.com dave berzack web development rap song candidate video resume

Dave Berzack, a freelance web developer, created this music video about web development. He raps along to the paper planes track about his skills to pay the bills. Certainly stands out amongst a pile of CV’s. There’s not much else I can add to this... Just watch the video! read more...


OWASP Top 10 and your Recruitment Website - Part 1
8:30am Monday 09 August 2010
Tags: dmitry kulshitsky security recruitment website job board owasp sql injection xss cross-site scripting broken authentication session management login form design hacking website security user authentication

OWASP has recently updated their list of the top 10 most prevalent security vulnerabilities. Since this list covers all major aspects of computer security it is interesting to check what are the issues that are relevant to a typical recruitment website or job board and (exercising the 80/20 rule) what are the key questions we should ask ourselves (or our IT/security staff) to be sure that we don't miss anything critical. read more...


Data Applications and Infrastructure at LinkedIn
8:30am Friday 06 August 2010
Tags: linkedin linkedin infrastructure data management database hadoop zoie bobo decomposer norbert voldermort kamikaze sensei azkaban apache data warehousing open source software

At a recent presentation by Jay Kreps of LinkedIn at the Hadoop Sumit 2010. Jay describes how LinkedIn crunches 120 billion relationships per day and blends large scale data computation with high volume, low latency site serving. read more...


How to confuse a job seeker - Part 2
2:25pm Monday 02 August 2010
Tags: classification structure job board online recruitment form design

Following on from our previous article on How to confuse a job seeker... Step 1. Create a complex and "unique" classification list Step 2. Expect the job seeker to select the correct item from the list 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...


Australian Job Board Statistics - August 2010
9:00am Sunday 01 August 2010
Tags: job board mycareer careerone august 2010 job board report job board statistics seek nielsen netratings

Australian Job Board Statistics measuring the total unique browsers during August 2010. Data source - Nielsen NetRatings. SEEK 4.165m, CareerOne 1.652m, MyCareer 1.371m read more...