Neil Hernandez's Blog

Using Twitter on Monster

Monster has this cool ability to Tweet your job postings on Twitter. When you post a job in can put it on your Twitter account. See how they do it in this direct excerpt from Monster.

Post To Social Media Networks

You can set your job postings to publish to your company's social media accounts. Once you have connected these accounts and set your defaults, select SAVE from the bottom of the page.

Link My Account

Unlink

Choose What Jobs Will Be Posted

All new jobs

Select jobs individually

Enter Intro Text For Your Posts

Check out our job opening for a [JobTitle] in [City], [State]! [CompanyName]

*will be truncated if necessary

Preview

Check out our job opening for a Vice President of Sales in Cambridge, MA! Verizon Wireless

Get on Indeed or Simply Hired

If you are a company seeking qualified job applicants, it is vital to get your job posting out there on the internet. Candidates use job search engines to find jobs nowadays. Two of the biggest are Indeed and SImply Hired. One of the ways to get on there is to post your job on a site and hope that they find it and your post goes on one of their search results.

To help in this I would post in the following sites:

• PostJobFree.com
• Ebay Classifieds
• (I will add more to this list as I find more sites)

Adjustments

Gone are the days, where a recruiter is in high demand. We are in a prolong recession or a better term is a recovery less recovery. 50% of college graduates are unemployed or underemployed. Corporations are no longer doing mass hiring. Retail is not expanding. Company's are not as eager to use an agency to fill roles.

Yet, at the same time some company's are hiring. It is not for every position. But for a few select positions. It is not correct to say that Health Care or IT is the only won hiring. But specific positions in health care like Occupational Therapists or Physical Therapist. In IT, technicians and network guys are a dime a dozen. But a cheap and good .Net Developer or Sharepoint Developer is hard to find.

So in this new recruiting environment, it is time to adjust. I say new, but it has been like this since 2007. For the last 5 years, recruiting and the needs to pay for a recruiter is dead. It is time to adjust.

SimplyHired.com

I've known about SimplyHired.com for awhile now. But after using it for a bit I realize that it is a great resource for someone looking for a job. It is almost exactly like Indeed.com. The difference is that it pulls up on it's searches a lot of different jobs than Indeed. So, if you are looking for a job, consider using SimplyHired as a supplement not a full replacement for Indeed.

Also, consider some of the other sites listed below:

StartMeeting.com

I discovered this new website that may be great for virtual recruiting training and management. I have not tested it yet but it is by FreeConferenceCall.com-  agreat company that provides free conference calls via telephone:

 

Free Cloud-Based Presentations, Instantly!

Introducing Studio by StartMeeting:
With Studio you can create compelling hosted presentations, with audio, for unlimited viewing by employees, prospects or clients… for FREE!

What can be recorded? Anything on your screen PPT, Word docs, Excel, PDF Websites Proprietary applications	Perfect For Sales presentations Team training Marketing HR efforts	Playback Options On-demand viewing Unlimited viewing Free to view iPad, iPhone, Droid compatible

From the company that brought you Free Conference Call, like Free Conference Call there is no catch, there are no bills, invoices or contracts and this is not a trial offer. Use it as much as you like for free.

 

Financial Projections

The economy stinks right now. This is opening up a wave of entrepreneurs in recruiting. There are so many different companys trying a whole bunch of different things. But notice some have some sticking power over the years and some have not. Despite all the new competition Dice, Monster, CareerBuilder, Indeed, and others have thrived over the years.

One of the first questions I ask for any new potential recruiting deal is what are your financial projections. To sort out the pretenders from the real contenders a real company has well thought out and prudent financial projections. If all someone has is an idea and no projections, then this tells me about their business.

When Close is Not Good Enough

When a company pays a big fee to fill a contingency placement, it is key to submit the right type of candidate. Thus, finding the must have requirements for a position is big. If a candidate is close but is missing one and especially two must haves. Then, it is best not to move forward with the candidate.

For example, if the client is asking for an Organizational Development person with direct experience in a manufacturing environment. I would not submit someone who has everything else but is missing the key experience in a manufacturing environment.

Give the client what he wants, not close to what he wants.

Indeed no longer posts jobs from free sites

It used to be that Indeed would scour the internet for all job postings. Wheter the site was a pay for a posting site like CareerBuilder, a company website, or a free posting site like Craigslist or Ebay Classifieds - the job posting would appear on the results of the Indeed job search engine result. Not any more. They no longer show results from free posting sites. So if your posting appears on Craigslist, ebay classifieds, or other free sites, it will no longer appear on Indeed.

This means, the recruiting strategy of posting on a free site and then have it appear on Craigslist will not work anymore.

 

How to Find Resumes on Google

http://www.booleanblackbelt.com/2009/02/how-to-find-resumes-on-the-internet-with-google/

ODesk

I just discovered a website called ODesk.com. It is a place for employers to post jobs that are online or remote based, and it is a place for remote workers to find online or remote jobs.

So a virtual recruiting company can post their virtual recruiting or other virtual jobs on oDesk for free. Applicants can apply for free. Of course, ODesk charges of the company hires a worker.

I have not tested it yet, but it appears to be in line with the virtual recruiting arena.