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Make your walk-ins more efficient.
Now that the market has started picking up again, we are seeing quite a few walk-ins being advertised. While walk-ins are a great way of quickly acquiring talent, they also need to be well planned in order to be beneficial. I remember a walk-in during the heydays of the dotnet boom when over 2000 prospective [...]
Truly stand out from the crowd.
We are happy to announce the launch of our credential verification services on JobsByRef.com. Launched in partnership with CRP Technologies (www.crp.co.in), we now allow you to get your employment and education records verified at rock bottom prices.
‘I know I am genuine, why should I get my own credentials verified?’, you may ask. But the fact [...]
Coming soon… pre-verified candidates for you to select.
As you would have experienced, there are quite a few unscrupulous elements in our society who do not hesitate to fake their resumes and certificates in order to gain entry into the corporate world.
This not only creates problems for companies and their customers whose trust is misused, but also prevents genuine candidates from finding deserving [...]
Have you used any job aggregator sites yet?
We know that the job search activity can be a tedious one. Going from one job site to another, creating accounts on each one of them, applying and tracking your application, all of this can be time consuming and difficult to manage.
In this post, I thought I could share with you one facility that has [...]
Super-charge your employee referral program
Our studies show that some of the larger companies get more than 30% of their new employees through employee referral schemes. But surprisingly, less than 10% of the employees actually refer candidates! All this, despite the HR team creating monetary incentives and promoting job openings aggressively among the employees.
The reason most employees do not participate [...]
Employers have a spanking new site now.
As you would have noticed, we have reorganized JobsByRef.com over the weekend. So now as an employer, you have a separate section for yourself under employer.jobsbyref.com.
While this is the most obvious change, this is not the only change you will see, by any means. We have made the employee referral process and the social recruiting [...]
Talent acquisition is an organization-wide activity.
More and more companies are realizing that in order to acquire great talent, the HR team needs to be empowered to involve the entire organization in the hiring process - from identifying requirements, drafting job postings, defining the ideal candidate, promoting jobs openings, referring candidates, short-listing applicants, interviewing potential employees and selecting the right talent.
Here [...]
Reaching out to Recruitment Firms.
This week, I thought I would write about ways in which you can use recruitment firms, also called as placement agencies, to get great jobs.
Recruitment firms typically work with companies in sourcing candidates for open position. However, they do not usually work with individual candidates except at executive levels. Nevertheless, you can use them to [...]
Unify and harness the power of your network.
Most companies rely heavily on their employees and their employee referral programs to find great candidates. If you are looking for a job, this is where your network of friends, colleagues and classmates can come in very useful. For, not only will they be able to identify job openings within their company, they will also [...]
Avoiding email clutter
In many companies, the email client is still used as the primary hiring tool. All applications are received via email. The email client (gmail, outlook, outlook express, …) has folders where different kinds of resumes are stored and all communication between candidate and company happens through email accounts of the different people involved in the [...]