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The Flat Fee Debate – follow up, live example & reposing of the questionAfter the debate the “flat fee” question caused last week (and thanks to all the people from across the spectrum who came and input) I just wanted to add a follow up post from some experiences of this week pertinent to that. We’ve built/are hosting an Applicant Tracking System (ATS) for a client. It’s new to them – so there’ll be a period of learning that will need to spread across the company, and meanwhile various Managers and HR representatives will get caught between old practises and the new facility. So things won’t be perfect, but I found this activity particularly enlightening. The hiring HR Manager engaged a company who aren’t “… a recruitment agency…” but offer a “fixed fee recruitment” service. Now I appreciate where there wasn’t an ATS before then the application process would have been simpler, but let me take you through the candidate journey as I… Here is the original post: Tags: activity, alex hens, application, caught-between, debate, drnf, manager, old-practises, people, spectrum, the-application Flat Fee recruitment – a direct question to main player job boardsI’m intrigued about something (as first posted about on this blog: “Are job boards ruining what could have been a beautiful thing”)– so want to ask a direct and genuine question to any senior job board types out there on twitter or stumbling across this ‘ere blog. Flat fee recruitment agencies are undercutting your business model by selling space on your site to direct clients at less than 10% of what you would charge if they came to you directly – therefore losing you revenue hand over fist on a daily basis. With new proponents of this model jumping into the mix on a weekly basis have you perhaps created a monster or is there a particular reason (that I can’t fathom) that you are willing to see your brand being lined up alongside (and therefore valued comparably to), let’s be honest, non-entity job boards? I am genuinely intrigued and… See more here: Tags: alex hens, beautiful-thing, business, clients-at-less, direct-clients, drnf, fee-recruitment, new-proponents, non-entity-job, perhaps-created, your-business A better, more grown up future for online advertising? I think / hope soThe web is a wonderful wonderful place. But, as we all know, good god it’s crowded and cluttered. Which is where strong brands come in. I’ve long berated the obsession with blatant short termism from any sector – but not least from web publishers who have a knack for panicking about all the cheap knock-off’s taking traffic away from them. If you play the long game and stay true to quality and being true to your visitors / readers then the more rubbish that the web hosts, the more people will look for “beacon destinations” (not sure if I’ve just made that up – but probably not as I think it’s quite catchy) . Publishers get caught into thinking they want volume volume volume, not caring whether it’s transient or not. But where the real value comes in any open market is in establishing a brand that resonates with a… Read the original post: Tags: alex hens, drnf, obsession, play-the-long, the-obsession, then-the-more, visitors, volume-volume, web-publishers, your-visitors Are Job Boards ruining what could have been a beatiful thing?Jamie Leonard recently wrote a great post on “Recruitment Relationships: It’s not me, it’s you” where he took a tongue in cheek look at the various advertising / engagement channels open to recruiters. The bit that really jumped out at me was the piece on Job Boards: “Job Boards Now 5 or so years into their married , the job board and recruiters are still very much going strong. Their relationship is one based on trust, equality and understanding, but how long will this marriage last? Well that really depends on both parties. Relationships relying on honesty and with the market now picking up, the job board market are certainly the one “trying to make it work”. The market is over crowded, to say the least, and recruiters have a lot of other options available. New and appealing alternatives are appearing on the horizon and things could get rocky for… See more here: Tags: alex hens, based-on-trust, drnf, jamie-leonard, make-it-work, marriage, married, other-options, piece-on-job, really-jumped, recently-wrote, relationships, their-married What do you think Social Media is about?I was recently asked by a journalist/publisher for my input (along with probably everyone else on this blog and 5 of our regular readers – the 6th reader being my mum, and in the nicest possible way they’re right not to ask her) about “social media, fad or future?”. I can’t decide whether it’s cheeky to pre-publish here or not. I’m sure the final article they pull together will still make an interesting read irrespective of me pre-empting, but I’ll probably forget to post this if I don’t do it now. The thing I really wanted to do though was ask any of you who haven’t been asked to contribute what you reckon? Kinda in a more crowd sourced / Social Media engaged sort of way, which is probably, given the subject, what I should have done in the first place Read the original: Tags: alex hens, decide-whether, drnf, engaged-sort, final-article, probably-forget, really-wanted, regular, social, social media, subject, sure-the-final The iPad – a Friday kinda lookYou may have noticed a little buzz this week just past about a certain Apple release. What? You missed it? Well don’t worry – I’m sure it’ll be beamed to the space station you must be on someday soon. There’s been plenty written about it already – from people who would love it because it has an apple logo on it to people who hate it because it has an apple logo on it and from developers who hate the fact that Apple operates a very closed development environment to those who really believe that apple have once again (as they did with the iPhone) significantly raised the bar. It’s not perfect, no, but then neither was the iPhone 1.0. Anyway, as I say – plenty written, and for my money Mr Fry, who got to be at the launch event, nailed it (as usual) in his blog post -… Read the original post: Tags: alex hens, apple, drnf, hate-it-because, hate-the-fact, plenty-written, raised-the-bar, really-believe If Architects Had to Work Like Web DesignersI came across (well – was pointed to it from twitter) this fantastic piece. I’m sorry to say it struck soooo many chords with me, but at the same time the satisfaction I got from reading someone else conveying a pain and frustration I’ve all too often felt compelled me to copy and paste it here for our 4 readers to enjoy too (hoping that at least one of them was involved in website project conception -> delivery). You can read the original here on DigitalSurvivors.com enjoy Originally posted here: Tags: alex hens, bedrooms, blueprints, digital, discretion, drnf, else-conveying, fantastic, plans, reading-someone, sure-the-plans, the-blueprints, website-project THEO PAPHITIS: Millionaire, Dragon, rubbish employer, hypocrite & Social Media dufusLast week I read an article from the Daily Mail (a link I followed I don’t hesitate to add) from the inimitable Theo Paphitis entitled “Why ALL bosses should copy me and ban Facebook from the workplace”. I think it’s fair to say that it wound me up. REALLY wound me up. It’s true that many articles I happen across from that “journalistic (and I use the expression in it’s loosest sense) stable” do, and that why I try to give it a wide berth – but this one got me fired. His key points were: the internet is responsible for “an orgy of self-indulgence and exhibitionism”. Ryman stopped all time-wasting by imposing a “non-draconian” ban on ALL websites that couldn’t be justified as useful for work. The internet has undermined dialogue in so many ways. Online socialising (unchecked) could cause the end of the world – or something like… View original post here: Tags: alex hens, bosses-should, cause-the-end, daily, drnf, expression, facebook, inimitable, internet, loosest-sense, the-internet, workplace "The ultimate phone is here" – follow up thoughtsDear me – where did that last month go?! Anyway – it was my intention that after posting the original article to follow it up quite quickly with my thoughts on it as a marketing piece, then I looked around and it was Mid August. For anyone who can’t be bothered to click through to that original post here’s the video: Matt commented: “I’m all for a bit of stealth marketing and this is certainly entertaining but I really don’t think it pulls it off. A phone that has everything and Nova Scotia…..I can’t really see any kind of link that would make the humour and the surprise reveal resonate in an effective way ” And I agree – it’s indeed a clever and entertaining piece, and I agree that if you look deep there’s no perceptible resonance between what’s being sold and the execution. But my biggest frustration/disappointment with… Here is the original post: Tags: after-posting, alex hens, drnf, effective-way, execution, humour, intention, make-the-humour, marketing-piece, surprise, surprise-reveal, thoughts, video The ultimate phone is here – honest!well – maybe not really, but this is a very involved, high production piece that is clearly aimed at going viral promoting the Pomegranate Phone “the one device that puts more things in the palm of your hand than you ever thought possible.” I don’t want to spoil it for you so go have a look – I’ll post an observation about it as a marketing piece later. Will you be chucking in your outdated smartphone to upgrade to a Pomegranate? See the rest here: Tags: aimed-at-going, alex hens, clearly-aimed, drnf, going-viral, high-production, marketing-piece, maybe-not, outdated, palm, pomegranate, puts-more, very-involved, your-outdated Taking a little issue with LinkedIn believeing their own hype – Social Recruiting SummitSo for those of you who don’t follow @mattalder on twitter (or work in whatever corners of Barkers Matt’s cheery demeanor brightens each day, or belong to his close family and are in regular contact with him) you won’t know that he’s currently hobnobbing with some of the great and most connected of digital recruitment world at the Social Recruiting Summit – being held at the uber webcool venue that is google HQ. Anyway – as part of the stream of tweets coming out of google HQ (which, as I write this with the day only just starting, has me thinking that it won’t be long before twitter falls over as a direct result of this event!) Matt sent this: “accuracy of personal info when user has more than 10 connections better than a resume, people don’t lie in public” RH #socialrecruiting Now the RH he references is Reid Hoffman… See more here: Tags: alex hens, barkers-matt, cheery-demeanor, direct-result, drnf, long-before, personal-info, regular-contact, stream, tweets-coming, twitter-falls, webcool-venue Workthing+ – what I sawWith the recent launch of Workthing+, the “is it right to charge candidates?” debate was certainly re-ignited (read some of it here on Recruiting Futurology). I wanted to step a little away from that particular cut and thrust and, having tried to give it a bit more time to look at all that’s on offer, give my take on the Workthing+ offer itself. It probably is worth stating for the record though that I have no problem with anyone charging for a service, whatever that may be – I actually kinda prefer that sort of transparency because it allows you to make an informed decision about the value for money you receive, and because you’re paying you are more bought into realising the full benefit of any facility – in short, putting more onus on you to make it work for you. OK – to the site/facility. My first observation… See the rest here: Tags: actually-kinda, alex hens, drnf, make-it-work, particular-cut, record-though, recruiting, workthing, worth-stating Potential tsunami or ripple? Google signal the WAVEing goodbye of TwitterGlobal recession or not, the pace of internet technology development waits for no economic cycle it would seem. Recently google have announced their latest project – something that’s potentially so big they’ve broken with their usual “release it in beta & then keep working on it” approach and have started drawing attention to it months before it’ll be ready for public release. Google Wave promises to be a “new tool for communication and collaboration on the web, coming later this year”. Twitter killer? Certainly looks like to me. It’s gonna dent the hell out of FaceBook & other such platforms too you’d have to bet. So what is Wave – well in their own words: A wave is equal parts conversation and document. People can communicate and work together with richly formatted text, photos, videos, maps, and more. A wave is shared. Any participant can reply anywhere in the message,… Visit link: Tags: alex hens, coming-later, dent-the-hell, drnf, google-wave, latest, message, months-before |
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