Employer
JobsByRef.com and Google Buzz
JobsByRef.com is getting more social. We are excited about Google Buzz and the ease of access that it provides for the users. You can follow us on Google Buzz @ buzzjobsbyref.
Soon you will be able to promote jobs on your and companies Google Buzz account from your JobsByRef.com account.
Stay tuned! and keep buzzing.
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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 [...]
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 [...]
Career fairs… - Seth Godin
Marketing guru Seth Godin has written a gem on Career Fairs, something that job seekers and career fair organizers should think about. Complete text of the article is reproduced here:
Career fairs…
are neither.
Of course they don’t exist to help you plan or execute a career. Most of the organizations with booths are bottom fishing, looking for [...]
Forged certificates are a major problem - Kapil Sibal
In an effort to curb forgery of education certificates, HRD minister Kapil Sibal has said that they are setting up an online repository of certificates accessible for employers or anyone wanting to verify a persons educational qualifications.
Forged certificates are a major problem. There is no verification process with the employer and the credibility of our [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Finding talent is never easy
Now that the economic revival is truly on, there are a lot more job seekers out there in the market. Yet I hear employers are continuing to find talent acquisition a difficult process. The truth is whether we are in boom time, bust time or in between times, finding the right talent is never easy.
One [...]