This is the 2008 snapshot. There are no Australian companies in there but I think they / you can work out where they might be if they were to be included.
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Did you know that LatinOcean is among the top 50 Australian Marketing Pioneer blogs? Trust me, it is
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Even though I have been delving into online retailing in the last few months, this has not distracted me enough to forget about recruitment. I explain:
When a florist delivers a bunch, it means that it has dispatched the product and that the courier has come back with a confirmation that it reached its destination. Now, you will want to think that this is proof that the intended recipient has received the flowers and is already feeling pretty special, right?
Fact is, sometimes the flowers were not received even though they were delivered in absolute good faith, e.g. the person could not be found and the flowers were left at the back of the house, or someone who was not the recipient just got them, etc.
Delivery and Receipt are not the same. This being the case, Is the service you are delivering being received?
- Are you delivering traffic, churn, eyeballs; whilst recruiters want placeable candidates?
- Are you part of a recruitment service delivery team who is so far removed from the client (because of the way your company is organised) that you cannot see its impact on them
My mini-quest for the foreseeable future is to change from ‘we deliver flowers’ to ‘we ensure flowers are received’. I am sure logistics technology can help with this.
Do you have a mini-quest of your own?
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myhome is closing, as you know… 30-odd people seem destined to lose their jobs before the end of the financial year
By looking at my LinkedIn account, there are 12 people on the system (that I can see within my network anyway), most of which are IT professionals (architect, developer, product manager). I assume the technical team have worked with bleeding edge tools. I doubt they will be long term unemployed.
Go have a peek, and if you recruit any of them leave me a comment
Have a good Tuesday.
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company name: notchup
based in the US, currently in beta mode. you can apply for registration or get referred (send me your email if you want to go straight in)
the idea: give candidates cash for taking interviews with employers and recruiters; members are also encouraged to spam, i mean refer the site to people that might be interested in joining by given the inviters a % of the money made by the invitees in one year.
the user experience: clean design (although someone commenting on the techcrunch article reckoned that the layout was a ripoff from google’s grandcentral. uploading your profile from linkedin is meant to be easy too, though I did not manage to connect. On the other side of the equation, employers get to see a blind profile which they can choose for interview and lay out the cash
The site offers 100% money guarantee, not sure about the terms of reimbursement though.
It will be obvious to you that the model can fall on its bum before it comes out of beta if there’s abuse, lack of talent or buyers. I am wondering tho if you as individual agency or corporate recruitment department would be prepared to materially reward candidates at interview, shortlisting or placement stage of the process. Or, are you already doing that?
Hope you have a safe weekend
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