Associated Northcliffe Digital (AND) have just announced the acquisition of Broadbean, the UK's leading job posting solution. In 2003 AND acquired Conkers.net, the UK's other job posting solution.
AND is the digital division of the Daily Mail and General Trust and among other things owns a sizable stable of UK job boards including jobsite.co.uk.
UK recruiters and commentators are already expressing their concerns (and here) over a job board business owning the job posting supply chain in the UK. In Australia this is the equivalent of Fairfax or News Digital buying Adlogic and JobAdder. No doubt there will be more news on this soon.
Tuesday, 21 October 2008
India PR Jobboard
Welcome to the world of Public Relations. If you are looking for a job opening in the Indian PR industry, you might find it here. This job board is an experimental free job board started by India PR Blog to list available public relations and related jobs in India (in agencies and corporate communication departments). This job board highlights PR job vacancies as posted by the HR/contact persons of PR agencies and corporates or by those who need the services of a PR professional/freelancer for short-term projects.
These posts are available at this page, or through the combined India PR Blog RSS feed, or when readers subscribed to this blog on their email (see subscription box on the blog’s upper right-hand corner), thus accessible to hundreds of PR professionals across the country reading this blog.
More than job recruitment or facilitation service, take this as a social community of recruiters and candidates in the PR industry.
How do you add a new job posting? Click the orange color ‘Post a Job’ button above. On the web form that opened up, fill up the details, follow the instructions, and you are done. Remember to preview your job posting before finalising it.
DISCLAIMER: India PR Blog does not take responsibility of any job posting on this board and all responsibilities are with the recruiters who post the particular job openings. The job board just provides a common platform and the blog does not take any part between the interactions of recruiters and candidates. Candidates should contact the recruiters mentioned on each job post directly. Please inform any abuse or write any suggestion to the Editor at India PR Blog.
These posts are available at this page, or through the combined India PR Blog RSS feed, or when readers subscribed to this blog on their email (see subscription box on the blog’s upper right-hand corner), thus accessible to hundreds of PR professionals across the country reading this blog.
More than job recruitment or facilitation service, take this as a social community of recruiters and candidates in the PR industry.
How do you add a new job posting? Click the orange color ‘Post a Job’ button above. On the web form that opened up, fill up the details, follow the instructions, and you are done. Remember to preview your job posting before finalising it.
DISCLAIMER: India PR Blog does not take responsibility of any job posting on this board and all responsibilities are with the recruiters who post the particular job openings. The job board just provides a common platform and the blog does not take any part between the interactions of recruiters and candidates. Candidates should contact the recruiters mentioned on each job post directly. Please inform any abuse or write any suggestion to the Editor at India PR Blog.
IT Jobs
One More Job Board! WHY?
Yes, there are over 80,000 job boards and everyday new job boards are launched. A search result for key word “Job Board” in Google will yield a million results. Even after combining all the job boards across the world there is less than 50% chance of getting help for a technology recruiter or a candidate. But in reality if the job boards were working for technology recruiters, would we be needing the recruiters at the first place?
More and more technology recruiters are working long hours to serve their clients. Job boards form a miniscule part of their sourcing strategy.
The intention is not to coach, but the success of a technology recruiter lies in networking and having his own dynamic searchable candidate pool. We are providing those tools so that your resume database becomes dynamic and network within them. Also, experienced technology professionals when seeking opportunities are comfortable within their network to make career moves. As more and more companies are growing globally, a single 'dot com' address that serves their sourcing strategy is required to attract top IT talent.
Therefore the idea is to empower the IT community by providing unique tools for the technology recruiter and for the candidates to maximize their skills globally. Moreover there is a push from industry to all the major governments to have favorable immigration policy for Technology professionals or so called speciality skills.
Our focus is only in Global technology talent acquisition space. – iitjobs.com
Yes, there are over 80,000 job boards and everyday new job boards are launched. A search result for key word “Job Board” in Google will yield a million results. Even after combining all the job boards across the world there is less than 50% chance of getting help for a technology recruiter or a candidate. But in reality if the job boards were working for technology recruiters, would we be needing the recruiters at the first place?
More and more technology recruiters are working long hours to serve their clients. Job boards form a miniscule part of their sourcing strategy.
The intention is not to coach, but the success of a technology recruiter lies in networking and having his own dynamic searchable candidate pool. We are providing those tools so that your resume database becomes dynamic and network within them. Also, experienced technology professionals when seeking opportunities are comfortable within their network to make career moves. As more and more companies are growing globally, a single 'dot com' address that serves their sourcing strategy is required to attract top IT talent.
Therefore the idea is to empower the IT community by providing unique tools for the technology recruiter and for the candidates to maximize their skills globally. Moreover there is a push from industry to all the major governments to have favorable immigration policy for Technology professionals or so called speciality skills.
Our focus is only in Global technology talent acquisition space. – iitjobs.com
Customize your local jobboard
You can now customize your job board to match the colors of your company and your website! Combined with the already built-in feature of using your logo on your simplicant job board, you can now make the look and feel of your job board fully match your company’s website.
This feature is accessible through the Job Board page in the Settings area. We are using the Yahoo! UI color picker, which makes the whole process of customizing colors simple and intuitive.
This feature is accessible through the Job Board page in the Settings area. We are using the Yahoo! UI color picker, which makes the whole process of customizing colors simple and intuitive.
Local Colarado Job Board
About a year ago, I started a job board here on ColoradoStartups.com. I wanted it to be free and only allow startups to post on it. Since then, 207 jobs at startups have been posted on my free job board to date. The bad news is that that only drew 59 applications in total from my readers. Not that great, but still a decent service to the community at no charge.
As of tonight, this job board will be shut down. But…. there’s good news too.
The good news is that I’ve replaced it with a much more functional job board that brings job posters many new benefits. Previously, job posts were only seen on ColoradoStartups.com. With the new job board, your posts are seen across the country on startup oriented job boards. For example, they’ll be seen as usual on ColoradoStartups.com, but also on the Texas Startup Blog, Kentucky Startups, North Carolina Startups, and so on. Better yet, this is a quickly growing list of startup oriented blogs which are perfect for reaching your audience. Better still, your ads will be seen whenever anyone searches for your keywords or geography across the entire SimplyHired.com network, which includes thousands of sites like MySpace, GigaOM, LinkedIn, VentureBeat, and the New York Post. Not bad, eh? In a nutshell, job posts on ColoradoStartups.com will now be seen much more widely.
The only downside is that the posting price has gone from free to $5 per listing. Using this new technology, this is the minimum that SimplyHired will allow us to charge. So of course, we picked that number since we love startups and don’t really do this for the money! This is still a great bargain as your listing is valid for 60 days, again, across the entire network. Just $5 for 60 days.
I hope you will continue to list your openings here on ColoradoStartups.com. I think the new job board will perform better for you. If you have any questions, just fire away in the comments.
It’s live, so you can post a job on the new and improved job board right now if you’d like to.
As of tonight, this job board will be shut down. But…. there’s good news too.
The good news is that I’ve replaced it with a much more functional job board that brings job posters many new benefits. Previously, job posts were only seen on ColoradoStartups.com. With the new job board, your posts are seen across the country on startup oriented job boards. For example, they’ll be seen as usual on ColoradoStartups.com, but also on the Texas Startup Blog, Kentucky Startups, North Carolina Startups, and so on. Better yet, this is a quickly growing list of startup oriented blogs which are perfect for reaching your audience. Better still, your ads will be seen whenever anyone searches for your keywords or geography across the entire SimplyHired.com network, which includes thousands of sites like MySpace, GigaOM, LinkedIn, VentureBeat, and the New York Post. Not bad, eh? In a nutshell, job posts on ColoradoStartups.com will now be seen much more widely.
The only downside is that the posting price has gone from free to $5 per listing. Using this new technology, this is the minimum that SimplyHired will allow us to charge. So of course, we picked that number since we love startups and don’t really do this for the money! This is still a great bargain as your listing is valid for 60 days, again, across the entire network. Just $5 for 60 days.
I hope you will continue to list your openings here on ColoradoStartups.com. I think the new job board will perform better for you. If you have any questions, just fire away in the comments.
It’s live, so you can post a job on the new and improved job board right now if you’d like to.
Using Job Boards Abroad !!!
In the life of an online multiple job poster there are days, on which everything goes wrong. Today seems to be one of them. Against my usual Job Board Experience articles habit, I will even mention the name of the job site I am talking about: it is infoempleo.com, one of the major Spanish national job portals.
Anyway, I am well aware that there will always persist language barriers and/ or difficulties when you are working on an international level. However, publishing two different job roles from two different customers (with, of course, two different logos, locations, job titles, texts, etc.) should be a standard procedure for any job site and should not require many explanations, neither in English, Spanish nor Esperanto.
But we recently sent two positions to infoempleo (the site is, by the way, part of the European Recruitment Alliance), one for a client in the Netherlands and one for a customer in Germany. The first ad was sent at the beginning and the second at the end of november. Today our customer care people had a look at the site to control the ads. They found out that the text from ad number one had been integrated in the company layout from ad number two…
When my colleagues called our customer care representative in Spain, the person said that she did not speak English (however, we usually correspond in English) and passed them to another person. This person - who spoke English very well - obviously felt unable to help us and, in the middle of the conversation, hung up the phone. Later on, my colleagues were told that the connection had been cut (which I doubt very much) and that, unfortunately, the person had left the building for a while (which I strongly believe).
Anyway, I am well aware that there will always persist language barriers and/ or difficulties when you are working on an international level. However, publishing two different job roles from two different customers (with, of course, two different logos, locations, job titles, texts, etc.) should be a standard procedure for any job site and should not require many explanations, neither in English, Spanish nor Esperanto.
But we recently sent two positions to infoempleo (the site is, by the way, part of the European Recruitment Alliance), one for a client in the Netherlands and one for a customer in Germany. The first ad was sent at the beginning and the second at the end of november. Today our customer care people had a look at the site to control the ads. They found out that the text from ad number one had been integrated in the company layout from ad number two…
When my colleagues called our customer care representative in Spain, the person said that she did not speak English (however, we usually correspond in English) and passed them to another person. This person - who spoke English very well - obviously felt unable to help us and, in the middle of the conversation, hung up the phone. Later on, my colleagues were told that the connection had been cut (which I doubt very much) and that, unfortunately, the person had left the building for a while (which I strongly believe).
Posting Your CV/Resume on a local Job Board
When you are writing your first draft of a resume you are most likely thinking in terms of using just one version of your resume for all niche job boards that you want to post to. But, you should think about carefully about targeting your resume for keywords on the niche job boards that you are posting to and using multiple iterations of the resume to use a larger amount of keywords. You don't need to change your personal or core content but you should think about using descriptive terms that fit the niche job board and/or position you are seeking with alternative resumes.
In many cases, when posting your resume on a niche job board you may be asked if you want to post an additional iteration of your resume. Many people will not take advantage of this, which is a mistake. The hiring manager is typically searching for a candidate using a specific set of keywords that matches a job – if you incorporate multiple resumes you can incorporate a broader set of keywords – ensuring that your resume will be pulled up via a search, when the hiring manager uses a matching set of keywords.
You may also find multiple jobs when doing a search on a niche job board that you are interested in and well qualified for, but your resume may not be a good match for the job description. If you incorporate multiple resumes in your marketing campaign you can target each one for a specific job opening and make your overall search process much less time consuming and more effective.
But you don't want to utilize a resume that portrays your experience inaccurately or mislead hiring managers. However, emphasizing certain aspects of your skill set in one resume versus another can again expose you to more positions – as an example, using business development versus sales manager in your objective description will give you a broader reach when hiring managers incorporate both or either of these terms in their search process via the niche job board.
Think like an online marketer – the broader your reach the more exposure you will have to hiring managers and recruiters.
In many cases, when posting your resume on a niche job board you may be asked if you want to post an additional iteration of your resume. Many people will not take advantage of this, which is a mistake. The hiring manager is typically searching for a candidate using a specific set of keywords that matches a job – if you incorporate multiple resumes you can incorporate a broader set of keywords – ensuring that your resume will be pulled up via a search, when the hiring manager uses a matching set of keywords.
You may also find multiple jobs when doing a search on a niche job board that you are interested in and well qualified for, but your resume may not be a good match for the job description. If you incorporate multiple resumes in your marketing campaign you can target each one for a specific job opening and make your overall search process much less time consuming and more effective.
But you don't want to utilize a resume that portrays your experience inaccurately or mislead hiring managers. However, emphasizing certain aspects of your skill set in one resume versus another can again expose you to more positions – as an example, using business development versus sales manager in your objective description will give you a broader reach when hiring managers incorporate both or either of these terms in their search process via the niche job board.
Think like an online marketer – the broader your reach the more exposure you will have to hiring managers and recruiters.
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