Why the Job Board isn’t Dead After All
The death of the job board has been predicted for about as long as I can remember. Almost as soon as the old school classified adverts moved online there were those that said it wouldn’t work. With each new technical leap we were supposed to be abandoning the lowly job board. If you believe the…
Why Job Adverts Suck and What You Can Do About It.
At the start of this year, and many years before it the pundits of HR and Recruitment (yes, they really exist) make predictions for the year ahead. As well as borrowing heavily from the mantras of Silicon Valley startups promising to be social, mobile and local there is always one persistent prediction that never seems to…
Job Titles and Perception – Ninjas, Gurus and Rockstars?
Somewhat unfairly, I tweeted this comparison recently. The photo compares the titles afforded to two luminaries of the technical world. One is Sir Tim Berners-Lee, he implemented the first successful communication between a Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP) client and server via the Internet and is often credited as being the “Inventor of the World Wide…
What Developers Want – A Data-Driven Approach to Writing Engaging Adverts
When writing job adverts recruiters are often left to rely on a brief chat with the hiring manager. They sometimes get input from one of the friendlier engineers and pair this with an old job description that has been slowly rotting on their careers site for the past year. The output of these less than…
Advertising a Vacancy in the Key of C#
There is a problem with advertising a vacancy on a job board. Not just the general problem of the decline in qualified candidates having to use job boards to find a new role but also the problem of standing out in a sea of other text all advertising the same type of vacancies. How can…
Innovation in Sourcing – Standing out from the crowd
The word “Sourcing” has come to be used in a particular way recently. In an age of “social recruiting” the meaning of sourcing has become narrowed to the point that it really only relates to new ways of searching the internet or the latest in a long line of software tools to interrogate ever growing…
Video Nasties…they’ve got a recruiting video we should make one quick!
In an online world where YouTube is king of the video realm there are still many pretenders to the crown. There are in fact so many video hosting sites and aggregators of the web video that it was only a matter of time before the recruiting departments of the world’s corporations jumped both feet first…