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Monster Offers Broader Features for Its Career Ad Network
Tens of millions of searches are conducted on the job boards every month. These are the active job seekers, drawn to one or another or, as is usually the case, more than one job board because, as Willie Sutton never said, that’s where the jobs are. But for every active seeker, there are many more who, if they learned of the right opportunity, might just be convinced to kick the tires. Reaching those millions of others in order to find just that one, perfect candidate, is a recruiting goal... |
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Play Nice
Have you been kind today? Make kindness your daily modus operandi and change your world. –Annie Lennox I recently finished reading the book The Power of Nice. I especially liked this book, because not only was it written by two very successful women, it was written by people who work in the advertising industry. I work in the advertising industry, specifically in the niche area of human resource communications. As I was reading this book, I felt reassured in knowing there are people who... |
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Authenticity: Assessing Whether Your Recruiting Messages Are Effective (Part 1 of 2)
I’m a major advocate of parallel benchmarking, i.e. learning from the best practices that have been successful in completely different business functions or industries than your own. A key parallel practice from advertising and marketing that recruiting and HR practitioners need to be aware of is “delivering authenticity.” Being authentic is about much more than simply being accurate. It’s about developing a perception among your target audience that they can trust what you say,... |
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.Jobs Council Seeks Info Now, Public Comment Later
More info. And a public comment period. That’s what the .jobs council appointed by SHRM decided it needed during a conference call today. The group that’s to recommend whether to allow a .jobs address to be issued in most any name, said it needs more information on how Internet addresses are managed, as well as how the .jobs names themselves are issued. The nine member group, officially named the Policy Development Process Council, said a comment period would be “forthcoming.”... |
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.Jobs Call Now Set For Thursday
The SHRM .jobs council conference call, proposed for today, has now been scheduled for Thursday. Today’s call was moved to Thursday after scheduling issues were raised, I’ve been told. I sent the council’s manager, Gary Rubin, an email seeking to confirm that, but have not yet heard for sure. Rubin is SHRM’s chief publishing, e-media, and business development officer, and point man for its .jobs affairs. If you’ve been following this story, then you know the issue. There’s... |
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SHRM .jobs Deciders Want More Info
A conference call Friday on the future of the .jobs domain ended with a consensus that the SHRM group considering the issue needed more information. The nine-member council is scheduled to meet Tuesday to consider specific next steps. In an email sent by Gary Rubin, SHRM’s chief publishing, e-media, and business development officer, he reported that the council “determined that more discussion will be necessary, including reaching out to the HR community for input, before voting on Employ... |