Archive for the ‘recruitment’ Category
I recently attended a meeting of the GATEWAY SHRM Chapter in Jersey City, NJ. As the organization’s Social Media Chair, it is my duty to develop and execute on our social media strategy for the chapter. I say this because it ties into the presentation given by Steve Levy at the meeting– ”Social Media Isn’t [...]
Lorne Epstein, CEO/Founder at Inside Job, demonstrates the Inside Job Facebook app. InSide Job connects jobseeekers to helpful people who have interviewed, worked, or are currently employed at the places the jobseeker wants to work at next. Employers can post jobs and leverage their work force as ambassadors of their organization. This presentation was done at a NYC Recruiting Meetup. [...]
Jack Wagner, @jackwagner54, is a mobile app strategist at DefinedLogic, shares insight on developing a mobile app strategy and some of the key questions prior to employers recruiting via the cell phone. This presentation was done at a NYC Recruiting Meetup. (With cameo from me on what is a widget and gadget) About The NY Recruiting Meetup Network: http://www.meetup.com/NYCRecruiting [...]
Rachel Book (@RachelBook), Senior Manager, Talent Attraction at AT&T, demo’ing the AT&T iPhone recruitment app at the NYC Recruiting Meetup. The video is a little raw, but the content provides a overview of the app. For instance, it was interesting to learn that only two employers have iPhone app, AT&T was the first. The AT&T app is also [...]
A New JA/ING Teen Poll on Kids and Careers finds that 90% of teens believe they will have ideal job. The JA/ING Poll on kids and careers finds that a majority of teens are confident they will find their ideal career. The JA credits “job shadowing” to be a way to introduce kids to careers and [...]
The 2009 edition of the annual job satisfaction survey conducted by The Conference Board, showed that 22 percent of respondents said they don’t expect to be in their current job in a year. In Addition, only 45 percent of Americans said they were satisfied with their jobs, which is a major drop from the 61 percent [...]
I recently read John Zappe‘s feature on the $33M for an Army recruitment video game. GameSpot reported that $33M was spent over 10 years (year-by-year budget summary is below in Chart 1). Taking a deeper dive into the story, I learned that the military combined spent about $700 million on recruitment advertising during the President Bush years. $33M amounts to [...]
Candidates make mistakes all the time – being too aggressive, unprofessional email addresses, ring tone rings, funky voice mails, bad mouthing previous employers, and the list goes on, right? Well, I did a search for ”GEICO hiring” on twitter to see what tweets have been posted this morning. I did the search not because I’m searching for a [...]
Here’s an example of a new business and green jobs being created. The US needs innovation and new businesses. Solar power when the sun goes down? A Santa Monica, Calif., company called SolarReserve has taken a step toward making that a reality, filing an application with California regulators to build a 150-megawatt solar farm that [...]
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