Posts Tagged ‘job advertising’
The job board wars: more competition please
There’s plenty of fuss, quite rightly, being made of LinkedIn’s massive momentum in the online employment space. All this fuss has perhaps distracted people from what progress has been made in the fight for eyeballs and dollars in the Australian job board marketplace. Seek’s share price has rallied from around $5…
Read MoreDying a slow and dull death: AFR job ad review 2011
Each year, for the past five years, I have reviewed all the job ads appearing in the Australian Financial Review (AFR), on the last Friday in October. I do this with the purpose of categorising each ad into one of four quality ratings (see below) and tracking what progress has been made (if any) in…
Read MoreWhat I learned at the Australasian Talent Conference 2011
I have attended all 5 ATCs held in Sydney. They have all been very interesting in their own way and a valuable source of trends and case studies for my speaking, writing, training and coaching. I am still digesting everything I learned at the event, so before anything escapes my over-flowing brain, here’s a quick…
Read MoreCandidate sourcing and advertising: The sun rises on a new era
There were a number of significant announcements and events over the past four weeks that, from my reading, seem to be compelling evidence that the new era of recruitment advertising and candidate attraction has officially announced itself as serious and here to stay. Here’s the chronological sequence of announcements and events: …
Read MoreRIP: Fairfax Media employment classifieds
On Saturday mornings, it really takes something extraordinary to grab my attention before I have had my first hot, rich espresso of the day. A couple of Saturdays ago something did. It was the ever-shrinking My Career section of The Saturday Age. Although the grand-daddy of Australian job boards, Seek, started up in…
Read MoreAre you still stuck in the recruitment dark ages?
These days it is hard to imagine how little information was available about recruitment practices and competitors back in the early to mid 1990s. There was only one source of industry-specific public recruitment training available in Australia, and that was Rosemary Scott’s business in its original 1992 form as a training business.…
Read MoreTreading Water: AFR job ad review 2010
On the last Friday in October each year, for the past four years, I have reviewed all the job ads appearing in the Australian Financial Review (AFR). I do this with the purpose of categorising each ad into one of four quality ratings (see below). There is no science to this process, just my…
Read More‘Source of Talent 09’ – some thoughts
Last week the first Australian Source of Talent (SOT) report was released (see details in Ross Recommends below) and it contains a host of fascinating information. I haven’t had an opportunity to fully digest its contents but I wanted to bring to your attention some initial highlights and make some comments in time…
Read MoreRaising the bar – what recruiters need to dramatically improve
It’s been an interesting week of reading on the Recruiter Daily website. Job seeker advocate website EvenItUp! has been very public in countering the opening of voting in the SARA awards with their own job seeker survey as well as publishing a 10 point job seeker charter. The RCSA has hit back with a…
Read MoreJob ads – the song remains the same
Each Friday I open the Australian Financial Review and I hope this week will be the week. The week when I turn each page, and have my heart fill with joy as I savour the rich quality of job advertisements, jumping off the pages of Australia’s most expensive real estate for job ads.…
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