Hire Strategies Blog

New broom sweeps clean: are you a talent technology fixer or fitter?

Do you see 2012 as the time to get rid of that ageing HR system or are you going to fix it instead?

The cloudy world of recruitment software.....

So everything will soon be in the cloud? But is that good news or plain old scary and how does it help you recruit more successfully?

Should you split test job adverts?

I am lucky to know some great technical people which allows me to do some clever split testing of copy to see what works for me.  But should recruiters be getting into this level of detail for job adverts?  I think they should.

Cost-per-hire <£100 anyone?

What if your boss said you had to get your cost-per-hire to less than £100?  Assuming you are smart enough to already have it to £500 then that is an 80% reduction!  That's pretty much what Intel have had to work out for their new Atom chip.

Do you have a mobile recruiting strategy?

I do smile when I read about "Big Brand" marketers so often quoting protection of their brand being oh so critical.  This week I read in New Media Age about how Google mobile ads are in some cases linking people to web sites that do not render well in mobile browsers and therefore giving a "poor brand experience".

It is however a valid point so how mobile friendly is your career site?  You can either try and search/apply for a job on your own site via your phone or download a mobile phone browser simulator that you can run on your PC.

Opera have a great little simulator at www.opera.com/mini/demo where you can see how your site will look on a mobile with this browser.  Zoom in to read the text!

You may not think it matters today but as the mobile phones become so much more powerful the phone really is no longer just a phone.

How will the Kindle DX change job advertising?

I remember when Peoplebank positioned their ability to display online job adverts that looked like a print advert as a real USP (which it was at the time).  Was it of any value?  Some liked it but as online has moved on fewer (but not all) people expect an online job advert to look/behave like a print advert.

But if the Kindle DX is going to change this then maybe the advertising agencies need to beef up their creative skills once again.

Who needs to go to work for meetings

If Cisco's Telepresence takes off like they plan (which means it will), should cut out a lot of travelling.  Amazing stuff!

Software as a Service (SaaS)

I was quoted this week that SaaS will represent 75% of all software by 2012, or something like that.  Of course the likes of Oracle and SAP may not agree but Workday, an enterprise level HRIS has just won a 200,000 people global deal. 

Read about it.....

Fibre in the sewers

According to a news release I read on the BBC site (highlighted in Twitter!) Ofcom are 'pondering' super-fast broadband delivered via the underground pipes of the UK's water and electricity companies!

In France, for example, there are already three operators providing superfast broadband to homes at speeds of between 50 and 100 megabits per second.  So there is hope for us yet?

If however we get a summer like last year I will not need to worry about the Ofcom pondering; I'll be off to live in France where I can surf in the sun at real warp speed!

The end is nigh Danny boy!

Just over a year ago I raised the issue of RSS being used instead of job posting in my post 'RSS - the death of eQuest and Broadbean' not to antagonise(!) but to forewarn them of their impending doom so they could plan ahead!

And now the first job board has accepted this method of job consumption; how dare they.