Posts Tagged ‘job seekers’
Seek’s Application Export: improved service or, not?
Seek’s latest site changes have caused a bit of a stir in the recruitment sector. In short, previously when a candidate clicked the Apply button on the screen that contained the job advertisement they were taken to an external site to complete an online application form and/or to upload their own resume. This process is…
Read MoreOne Year on from starting ‘The Job’: Interview with Ellison Bloomfield
In October 2010, the lead article in InSight 153 was Adventures of a (linchpin) job seeker. It was the story of Ellison Bloomfield, a frustrated job seeker who decided she was going to try a different approach to finding her dream job. Ellison embarked on a very public campaign to find ‘The Job’…
Read MoreThe 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 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 MoreAdventures of a (linchpin) job seeker
This is a story that I find to be both inspiring and revealing. It demonstrates what is possible when a motivated and resourceful job seeker decides not to play by the rules and, in fact, changes the game. This is the story of Ellison Bloomfield. Ellison is a HR…
Read MoreMaybe recruitment agencies aren’t so bad after all
The decision by recruitment agency critic and job seeker advocate, Diane Lee, to discontinue her EventItUp website coincides with the release of the inaugural Executive Monitor report, a joint research project between Phillip Tusing (Destination Talent blog) and niche job board SixFigures. The report is a summary of the findings from a survey…
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