Recruiter's Essential Tips

Many job postings today have very little information and appeal.  Job seekers, particularly the top talent, expect the job ad to be informative and compelling. But many job ads lack enough information and fail to answer the questions that arise in the job seekers’ mind and even worse, the job ads deliver the wrong message. Hence the job seekers are unable to evaluate the opportunity and make an informed career decision. Another reason why job ads don’t work is many companies continue to invest in ads that do not yield the expected results. The reasons may be attributed to their habit (posting the job ads in the same sites irrespective of the results), financial constraints (fixed budget or the company would have a tie-up with a particular job board) and awareness (There are thousands of job boards and career portals. Posting a perfect job ad in a wrong site will not yield the expected results.) So it is essential for recruiters and hiring managers to ensure that they post ef...

Posting jobs online is one of the most common activities that recruiters and hiring managers do whenever they have a job opening. But  Glen Cathey , one of the leading sourcing experts in the industry, has a different opinion. Glen, in his recent article, says that posting jobs online is a passive strategy. He also says that posting jobs online doesn’t offer control over the candidate qualifications, attracts only active job seekers and posting jobs online is not social. Here are a few points discussed in the article: Why posting jobs online is a passive strategy? Because there isn’t any action involved other than posting jobs and the recruiters wait for things to happen rather than identifying, attracting and hiring top talent. When you post jobs online, you do not have control over candidate qualifications. You post a job ad with a specific qualification and experience but there is no guarantee that only those candidates will respond to your job posting. Anybody (unqualif...

Source: eGrabber Newsletter Do you run job postings with the same message, similarly worded, on all sites? A job ad that is effective on a job board (a place for active candidates) will not perform equally on a social networking site (a good source for passive candidates). You should not be surprised if I told you that, for the same ad, the response you get in LinkedIn will be different from that on Twitter or Facebook. So in designing ads, you must understand how the different sites and networks work, the audiences these sites attract and their general mood. It is better that you always come up with 3 messages for every job opening you would like to advertise - 1 each for general purpose sites, niche sites and social networking sites - for maximum effectiveness.

Save quite a bit of cash by taking advantage of these free ways to advertise your job openings: 10. Blog - Writing a blog is free (we recommend using WordPress.com ), and allows you to put your message on the web without involving your IT department. 9. Twitter - With TwitterFeed, you can easily set up your jobs to auto-post on your Twitter site. 8. SimplyHired.com - Simply Hired is a free job posting site that also powers the career sites of popular sites such as MySpace and US News. 7. Indeed.com - Indeed accepts free job postings, and also optimizes your postings for search engines. Quite a few of our clients get the majority of their online candidates from Indeed.com, because the jobs rank highly on Google. 6. Linked In - Linked In is a powerful way to source new candidates. 5. Business Cards - For a very small investment, you can print business cards that advertise your career site. Hand these out to your employees to encourage employee referrals, and keep a stack at the ...

Source: eGrabber Newsletters Here is a simple search script that will allow you to aggregate the job postings from a specific company across various job sites. "Company Name" site:indeed.com OR site:simplyhired.com OR site:jobster.com OR site:careerbuilder.com OR site:dice.com OR site:monster.com OR site:hotjobs.yahoo.com OR site:careerjet.com OR intitle:jobs OR intitle:job For example, if you are looking job postings from IBM, the search string will be "IBM" site:indeed.com OR site:simplyhired.com OR site:jobster.com OR site:careerbuilder.com OR site:dice.com OR site:monster.com OR site:hotjobs.yahoo.com OR site:careerjet.com OR intitle:jobs OR intitle:job The search results will display job postings from all the above sources. You can customize the search preferences to display only recent results.

MySpace Classifieds is actually one of the resources, least used by recruiters looking for job postings. Here's how you can search job postings on MySpace Classifieds: 1. Go to http://www.classifieds.myspace.com/job/ 2. Enter your search criteria in the Search tab 3. Choose the location and click on Find it! Another similar, but underutilized and powerful resource to search job postings is the Google Base . In both these, you will also find options to refine your search based on industry, work experience, employment type, education, and more. Use these two sources to get new job postings.