Hire Strategies Blog

HirePad: a new beginning #in #itsajobslife

After almost 10 years of advising on, integrating with and criticising recruitment technologies I have come back into the game myself. In 2002 I sold my ATS business. It was a complete disaster but I learnt a lot; hell of a lot! So I'm back but this time it's even more serious. I'm now putting my money in front of my mouth but will be just as critical about my own product as anyone else ever will be.

The mobile job application vs. the non mobile job application

Just under a month ago I started a poll on Linkedin posing the question:

"As a candidate do you really want to apply for a job using your mobile phone?"

I am running a track on this subject at TRU London next Thursday but thought I'd share the results from the poll now that there are only 4 days left. If you want to vote you still have a bit of time: linkd.in/zUrxzT

TRU London 2012: Should the online job application be mobile?

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I didn't attend the first TRU London but have attended them ever since and this year will be my third. TRU events have been memorable for me and I am hoping this year will be even better again; two years on there has been a lot of change! I also intend to turn up this time to run my track on the second day! So if you have some views on mobile job applications be there on Thursday 23rd February 2012. In usual TRU style no one knows what time the track will be!

Why job SEO is not enough

So we are starting to see various vendors claim their stake in the career site SEO (search engine optimisation) game. But just because you optimise your jobs, it does not mean you have found the golden nugget.