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Articles posted on July 2010

Plan for the worst
6:37pm Wednesday 28 July 2010
Tags: recruitment vendors recruitment database backup plan recruitment website website hosting recruitment technology data storage

It's every business owner�s worst nightmare - What would happen if we lost all our data? Goodbye thousands of candidate records. Goodbye client lists and financial information. Instead of pointing the finger and blaming someone else, do you have plans in place to backup your data in the first place? read more...

Log in with LinkedIn
7:30am Monday 19 July 2010
Tags: social recruiting social recruitment facebook connect login form social networking registration form trusted authentication recruitment agency website job boards oauth user registration login with linkedin linkedin.com linkedin api

We have released "Log in with LinkedIn" functionality across a number of our client job boards and recruitment agency websites. This is a first for the Australian & New Zealand recruitment industry that allows users to use their existing LinkedIn details to Register/Login with another site. read more...

Search Jobs by Salary Range
9:00am Sunday 18 July 2010
Tags: jobsjobsjobs.com.au job search job board hourly pay rate annual salary jobstreet.com jobs.co.nz jobsite.co.uk apsjobs.gov.au mycareer.com.au seek.com.au salary brackets pay scale search jobs by salary range

SEEK has released an updated search box that allows users to specify salary ranges. Although this "search by salary range" function is not new to the online recruitment industry. We wanted to have a look at a number of different ways your job board or recruitment agency can offer this function. read more...

Mobile Recruitment Websites - Keep it simple
1:53pm Tuesday 13 July 2010
Tags: mobile recruiting android application jobs.recruiterdaily.com.au iphone job search application blackberry application iphone application mobile job sites mobile recruitment

Does your Job Board or Recruitment Agency website need a native iPhone, Android or BlackBerry application? More than likely the answer will be no. Save your money. You don't need to spend upwards of $5k+ for a single native application. But what you do need is a mobile enabled website. read more...

Job ad of the month - I'm tired of writing boring adverts for boring Recruitment Consultants
9:26pm Monday 05 July 2010
Tags: engineering people engineeringpeople.net.au funny job ad job ads keyword loading job ad of the month

Did I miss the memo on funny job ad day? Today I came across a number of funny (and a few weird) job ad copies including "This is DOPE" and "If this sounds like your kind of gig, then please send us your CV and an idea of your salary expectations to one of the sexiest men on the planet (WTF)�our Human Resources Manager". read more...

Australian Job Board Statistics - June 2010
4:07pm Friday 02 July 2010
Tags: job board mycareer careerone june 2010 job board report job board statistics seek nielsen netratings

Australian Job Board Statistics measuring the total unique browsers during June 2010. Data source - Nielsen NetRatings. SEEK 3.899m, CareerOne 1.554m, MyCareer 1.264m read more...

Social Recruiting is a dirty word
11:00am Thursday 01 July 2010
Tags: social media privacy recruitment websites linkedin twitter facebook presentation thomas shaw social recruitment social media social recruiting mobile recruiting job boards social recruitment strategy

Today, I gave quite a controversial presentation to a group of Recruitment Agency owners on Social Recruiting. When I was first asked to present to this group a few months ago, I was initially asked to speak about "Social Media and it's use in the Recruitment process". I said no, I wasn't interested. read more...