LinkedIn Corporation, the world’s largest and most effective professional network, today announced new tools in their Corporate Solutions offering aimed at internal staffing organizations and retained executive search professionals.
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I was talking to a couple of friends who were interviewing for tech jobs in the financial services industry (two separate companies). These are firms that are very successful, well known, decent community stand, pay on market - I think; in other words they have a pretty good employer brand, or at least that is my perception of them
Interestingly enough, the interviewing experience for my mates had not been that crash-hot: one was kept waiting for almost an hour in the first meet, the other one had a change of time when he was on his way for the second meet, and both had core members of their interview panels rushing to get on with their day.
My first reaction was to think that they were overreacting. Then, I kind of understood why the interview experience was not aligned with the employer brand perception. More to the point, the brand perception created high expectations about the entire recruitment experience from the word go.
I guess the point is that you as a hiring company (or agency) are going to interview many more people than those you are actually going to employ or make an employment offer. That tells you that there’s stacks of individuals roaming the streets whose only experience with your company was the interview. Therefore, in the interest of preserving your brand as an employer, you may also want to pay attention to your reputation as an interviewer, which in turns means that all your hiring managers and interviewers need to get on board re. your employer brand. Logical huh.
US-based survey, still, not only interesting to read from a ‘what can happen/is happening in Australia’ viewpoint, but also from an result interpretation perspective, e.g. “is the career website a destination for or a source of applicants?”
… and for the super-busy readers here’s a snapshot of the conclusions
* Get people to be part of your LinkedIn network with LinkedIn Fast (see sidebar); makes it easier for people to send you an invite, and you can always reject it if it’s spam
* Doll up your imbedded LinkedIn profile with the Linkedinabox widget, via digital inspiration. A bit better than the original LinkedIn button.
* produce an html resume using your public LinkedIn profile; this plugin for wordpress might be good for job applications, though it may need a bit of fiddling with the page template
All of those proudly brought to me via Google alerts
A due diligence process gone awry due to an apostrophe and a delete-happy finger that killed proper copy instead of a test page, were - respectively - the cause for inaccurate speculation and the reason for the demise of a post detailing my encounter with online employment directory whoshiring.com.au
The post went on to say that there were no apparent traces of vertical search technology on the portal - just links to the websites and job listing areas of both corporates/employers and recruitment agencies.
The question remained as to how, standing alone, the site would make any money beyond straight ads. Having said that, I thought the site would prove to be a useful stop for job seekers and publishers who bothered in having a presence on the Internet.
Thanks Brett for setting me straight, apologies for not being able to post the comment, thanks for the good wishes and good luck catching all that traffic from grammar-picky job hunters