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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 Value of a BSI Kite mark for UK Online Recruitment?[by Derek Pilcher - Managing Director -TheLadders] As an organisation we’ve been involved in the early stage talks with the BSI around the introduction of a kite mark for the UK Job Board industry. It appears that they have reached out to the Govt Dept (BIS) for funding to support this process. Notable UK online recruitment luminaries are involved on the BSI Steering Committee, none other than Chairman David Hurst of onrec.com. Nevertheless with all the good intent of this process, I’m a little confused as to the benefits. UK regulations around the jobseeker remain totally in the dark – governed by legislation dating back to 1973. Job Boards are still governed by the Employment Act of 1973 which classifies job boards as Employment Agencies under the guise of providing ‘work finding’ services and outlining that access to job vacancies has to be provided free. A mute point in today’s… More here: Tags: benefits, chairman, chairman-david, classifies-job, derek-pilcher, drnf, employment, guest author, introduction, jobseeker, little-confused, process, under-the-guise 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 Buntika Social Media PolicySo, you’ve realised that your employees are among the best resources to manage your online reputation but also potentially can damage your brand reputation if not guided correctly. What to do? Worry not, by answering twelve simple questions in sequence here at Policy Tool, http://socialmedia.policytool.net/ you will have a full and legally sound, company social media policy to circulate to employees in a matter of moments. Yay! Whats more, I got to make up a name for my make-believe company – Buntika – sounds like a fun place to work. Nice article at mashable on why your company should have a social media policy. Go here to read the rest: Tags: among-the-best, drnf, employees, legally-sound, media-policy, online, policy-tool, sinead bunting, social media, your-employees Three years later is this still the worst recruitment video ever?It’s now three years since I posted what I considered at the time to be the worst recruitment video I’d ever seen to Digital Recruiting. As it is also a year since I last reposted it, I thought it was high time we all took another look. Now interestingly as I re-watched this, it didn’t seem quite as bad as I remembered! With sites like Animoto offering easy to use software which anyone can use to replicate the photo montage style, this kind of rough and ready promo has actually become quite common. It wasn’t long though before I realised that I was viewing it with the sound turned off……it only took a few seconds of reacquainting myself with the song to be sure that it is still the worst recruitment video ever! Matt Read the original: Tags: become-quite, digital, drnf, last-reposted, matt alder, offering-easy, photo, photo-montage, quite-as-bad, still-the-worst, time, worst The truth is, nobody knows anything.By Chris Muktar (Founder – Wikijob.co.uk) Let me start by saying I’m a guest writer, so please be nice! One of the things I have noticed lately is how the recruitment industry has changed not recently but over centuries. In biblical times, I imagine jobs were advertised by word of mouth, then signs for the literate, likely followed by job noticeboards and then local press, finally culminating with the internet in the last decade and a half, and moving towards social media in the next. One of the most interesting problems we face when trying to sell social media is selling the concept. It’s rare that a client actually expects that their social media campaign will generate any applications. Many are just sticking their toes in the water and seeing what happens. We tend to find that companies spend only 5-10% of their budget on new or innovative media, while… See more here: Tags: chris-muktar, companies-spend, drnf, internet, likely-followed, literate, media-campaign, Recruitment Agencies, towards-social, water The September Issue – on iPadSo, on Sunday night, I watched the TV premiere of The September Issue -a behind the scenes documentary on US Vogue magazine’s Editor-in-Chief Anna Wintour. Wow! – it was compulsive viewing – I watched it initially thinking of a very stylish friend of mine who I knew would be ideal to work at Vogue. By the end of it, despite not having a stylish, fashionable bone in my body, I was wishing I had a job there myself! This was pretty much due to me loving Anna Wintour’s right hand woman – Grace Coddington – the Creative Director, who was such a fantastic, talented person, who did these amazingly creative fashion shoots. They were like modern art…am I gushing? yes, I am..see… I belong in the world of fashion. I loved Coddington and Wintour’s relationship of begrudging admiration and respect mixed with wanting to give each other a good slap,… Link: Tags: coddington, creative, despite-not, drnf, scenes, september-issue, sinead bunting, talented-person, work-at-vogue 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 Crowdsourcing ApathyAh, election year….the prospect of shiny new change or focusing your current leaders to deliver on past promises they have made…how exciting! or really….it used to be, but not so much this year. I don’t think I can ever recall being this apathethic about a general election. It’s a sad state of affairs to be in, feeling that neither party offers any particular hope. Just as well then, we have something of interest we can watch from our seats of indifference – how each party fayres in their use of social media in helping to get elected. After Obama came to power on the wave of hope and an amazing social media campaign, the bar has been set very high. So, first to have piqued my interest and get off the starting blocks is Labour. Just read that Labour are launching a crowdsourcing campaign Change we See Insead of talking… Excerpt from: Tags: after-obama, amazing-social, apathethic, current, current-leaders, deliver-on-past, drnf, media-campaign, obama, party, prospect, sinead bunting, starting RECaid Free Training – 18th February 2010Support for job-seekers in recruitment advertising. For those people in recruitment marketing who aren’t working at the moment but who are keen to keep their skills up-to-date, help is at hand. RECaid, the recruitment advertising charity, is organising a series of free training and development sessions designed to support job-seekers in our industry. The first of these training events will run on the morning of February 18th and will be hosted by Global Radio. This will involve a series of three back-to-back sessions designed to help job seekers improve their interviewing skills, widen their industry knowledge and build their digital design and writing skills. The outline below should help you decide whether they’ll benefit you – or someone you know. Planning Your Job Hunting Process – Frank Hutton The founder and Managing Director of Ad Lib, a specialist marketing, creative and media recruiter, Frank will focus on taking a planned… Read more from the original source: Tags: digital, drnf, focus-on-taking, frank-hutton, free-training, hunting, hunting-process, industry, interviewing, john whitehurst, Recruitment Agencies, seekers-improve, the-recruitment, their-digital, these-training The Mobile Age ComethSo, I’m thinking of getting an i-phone..they’re pretty cool and being able to access the web wherever I want, whenever I want, is a big attraction, especially since my laptop packed up. Also, being free from the red light of my work blackberry, which doubles as my personal mobile phone will surely be healthy. I’m not alone in my desire for a smart phone, in fact, it would seem at long last, we just may be entering the ‘Mobile Age’ – the perennial prediction comes to bear…. Mary Meeker in her presentation at the Web 2.0 event- convinced me the mobile is all set to be the main device for web access. What’s more from past analysis of technology computing trends, the mobile age is all set to be TEN times more utilised that desktop Internet computing: What does this mean for the world of recruitment? Employers should be considering… Read the original: Tags: access-the-web, big-attraction, drnf, from-the-red, internet, laptop, laptop-packed, mobile, perennial, personal-mobile, presentation, seem-at-long, the-mobile, work, work-blackberry Tuesday 9th of February, we’re holding the first annual inter-agency pub quiz to support RECaid at the Hoop & Grapes on Farringdon RoadOn Tuesday 9th of February, we’re holding the first annual inter-agency pub quiz to support RECaid at the Hoop & Grapes on Farringdon Road. Full details will be distributed shortly, but this is to please ask you to sound out people in your agency about getting team together and ask you to publicise the quiz. Agency can have multiple teams and freelance teams can also welcome, so please encourage as many friends and colleagues as possible to be involved. Please let us know if you want to enter a team and for more information you can see the RECaid inter-agency pub quiz on linkedin. Tags: agency, drnf, farringdon, first-annual, john whitehurst, multiple-teams, quiz, recaid, road-full, team-together, your-agency Delicious Ambiguity‘…some stories don’t have a clear beginning, middle, and end. Life is about not knowing, having to change, taking the moment and making the best of it, without knowing what’s going to happen next. Delicious Ambiguity.’ Gilda Radner I love a good quotation and I think the above is a good way to look at life and all that it presents us with, especially after a year like 2009 and a rather uncertain world in 2010. At this time of year, people tend to make predictions about whats going to happen in the upcoming year. I obviously don’t know whats going to happen in the upcoming months, but reading different blogs and research, it would seem a given, that mobile, real-time and social are the key trends in technology, business and communication (more on that to come). Whatever happens, I hope 2010 is a great year and we all appreciate… Read the original post: Tags: clear-beginning, drnf, gilda-radner, look-at-life, making-the-best, obviously-don, sinead bunting, the-upcoming, time, uncertain, upcoming Digital Dinner Party – WebSquaredEvery now and then you come across a site, a white paper, a new technology etc that makes you a bit excited and you wonder how you can use it or tailor it for your company and clients. I came across the site http://www.web2summit.com/web2009/ the other week, late in the evening and was on it for a good few hours until I had to go to sleep. The site details the Web 2.0 summit that happened in October in San Francisco. The summit is organised by the guy who coined the web 2.0 term- Tim O’Reilly. Web 2.0 has become Web squared – all about collective intelligence, and the web integrating with the physical world. ‘The Web is no longer an industry unto itself – the Web is now the world.’ The list of speakers at this conference is like your dream digital dinner party line-up. Pretty impressive. Some great… Continue reading here: Tags: coined-the-web, conference, details-the-web, dinner-party, dream-digital, drnf, evening, industry-unto, new-technology, physical, sinead bunting LinkedIn Opens up at LastAfter announcing it would open up its platform ages ago – LinkedIn finally lets outside developers have access. All the pro’s and con’s are detailed here – including the t & c’s that they are imposing which may be a bit stifling and limiting. But nonetheless- really interesting development for our clients. Watch this space. More: Tags: ages-ago, bit-stifling, clients, drnf, finally-lets, its-platform, linked, really-interesting, sinead bunting, space, the-pro Mash-Up my CareerSo, I read this article today about how you can use technology/sites to map your life history. I like this idea – overlay your life on a map of places you have visited, schools you attended, where you have lived etc add relevant content, photo’s, links to friends etc Instead of carving your name on a tree (maybe with another name, date and a heart around it) you can create your life history in a dynamic, visual and interactive way – a 3G biography – a personal diary or history. Surely this is the future of logging your career experience? – a digital, real-time, resume: charting your work history, where you have worked, who you have worked with and examples of campaigns, clients, innovations you have worked on etc? An interface that will bring this to life. A digital Career portfolio. Is this the service that job boards can offer… View original post here: Tags: article, article-today, career, drnf, future, life-history, personal-diary, sinead bunting, work, worked-on-etc Twitter & LinkedIn Partnership Merges Professional with PersonalOne of the best pastimes I’ve read on a CV from a prospective candidate was; ‘reading, socialising and…thinking. In an evening/weekend they liked nothing better, than to sit down and have a good think………this certainly put some thoughts into my head. It would seem that the anouncement that you can share your Tweets on your LinkedIn profile will also provide employers with an insight into your personality, pastimes and what makes you tick. As Biz Stone, Co-founder of twitter states; people are finding: ‘the personna they create for themselves on the web is part of their resume in many ways’. This certainly goes some way to blurring the line between your professional social web presence – LinkedIn and your more personal presence – or ‘brand’ on the web, on a site such as Twitter. The partnership is great for LinkedIn in terms of making it a more dynamic ‘real’ time… Read more from the original source: Tags: anouncement, certainly-goes, drnf, linked, linkedin, more-personal, personality, personna, professional, sinead bunting, such-as-twitter, tweets, twitter-states |
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