Blog Posts
Inbound Recruiting Increases the Quality of Hires
Imported 2 days ago.I recently wrote a post entitled, The Future of Recruiting is Inbound inspired by the concepts of inbound marketing. I hope you’ll check out the post and let me know what you think.
Employer Branding 2.0
Imported 10 days ago.What is employer branding? The most commonly used definition of “employer branding” is Brett Minchinton’s from The Employer Brand Institute, which defines employer branding as, “the image of the organization as a ‘great place to work’ in the minds of current employees and key stakehol...
5 Tips for Getting Started with Employment Branding
Imported 10 days ago.EMC is a huge company. As such they have the resources to develop comprehensive employer branding and recruitment marketing campaigns, targeting specific audiences with different messages and tools. Dan Schawbel (who works with EMC on their social media efforts) describes 10 employer branding str...
Inbound Marketing and HR
Imported 10 days ago.I recently met Dharmesh Shah, co-founder of HubSpot. HubSpot is a software product, which they call an Inbound Marketing System. The premise is that marketing departments and small businesses need to make themselves more available and accessible online, which in turn will attract those people tha...
Short Versus Long-Term Recruitment Strategies
Imported 10 days ago.The most common approach to recruiting – especially for small and medium-sized businesses – is really short-term; a “shotgun strategy” whereby a company realizes it needs to fill a position and races around to do it as quickly as possible. Of course, in too many cases, they needed to hire...
The Candidate Experience Still Sucks, And Yes It Does Matter
Imported 10 days ago.Why do companies still treat candidates like crap? It makes absolutely no sense, but the reality is that too many companies still treat job seekers and candidates poorly — from the minute the job seeker is introduced to the company via a job description or their career web site, through the app...
How Employer Brand and Candidate Experience Meld Together
Imported 10 days ago.As I read Peter Weddle’s post, You Are What They Remember, I kept nodding to myself. In a few instances I caught myself agreeing verbally. “Yes…yes…yes…” (You can skip any obvious jokes with that last sentence…) What’s Peter’s point? It’s simple: Companies need to be memorabl...
How Do You Treat Rejected Candidates?
Imported 10 days ago.HRMToday has a very interesting and amusing story about a rejected candidate that was eventually hired and became a star player. It’s a great anecdote and reminder of a couple things: We reject too easily. We always benefit by treating people well. Quick Resume Rejections The fact is, when re...
Testing New Standout Jobs Site
Imported 14 days ago.My apologies for the intrusion, but we’ve revamped the Standout Jobs site and I have to test if all the parts are moving the way they should. So far so good…
The New Standout Jobs Website
Imported 15 days ago.Welcome to the new Standout Jobs website. This is a significant departure from our old site which a much simpler, leaner design. It also speaks to the transition we’re making from a technology company to a service-oriented company. We recognize that many of our customers and companies out there...
Latest Standout Jobs Release
Imported 3 months ago.Standout Jobs recently released new functionality to support it’s core focus of giving companies more control over their career sites, employer brand and online profile, and being able to interact with candidates, providing a great candidate experience. Here are the details: Table View of Jobs...
New Features Released at Standout Jobs
Imported 4 months ago.Today we’ve released a group of new features that enhance the Standout Jobs recruitment communication platform in a number of ways. We’re extending the flexibility for larger groups of people to manage their career sites, enhancing the ability for employers to communicate on a frequent basis ...
Talent Network CRM - Launched!
Imported 4 months ago.Standout Jobs has launched its Talent Network CRM functionality, enabling employers to re-market (via email) to candidates and prospects in a continuous, targeted manner. The Talent Network collects some personal information about applicants and prospects - including name, email address, phone nu...
A How-To Guide to Corporate HR Blogging
Imported 5 months ago.Standout Jobs and Talent Synchronicity are very pleased to release our Definitive Guide to Corporate HR Blogging. Real-time social networking via Twitter, Facebook, etc. is certainly all the rage. But fundamentally, blogging still remains the best way to build brand, authority and thought leaders...
Facebook Launches a Recruiting Video
Imported 7 months ago.Facebook recently launched a recruiting video. I like it. Perhaps a bit too polished to give you a real sneak peak on the inside of the organization, but it’s a nice way of talking to potential candidates. Not surprising, some people have called it cheesy and lame. <object width="576" heigh...
Social Networking Banned for Recruiting
Imported 7 months ago.Amegy Bank of Texas bans social networking sites in the hiring process for fear of being sued. It’s a shame companies feel this is a necessary step. It seems to me what you put on the Web that’s accessible publicly is public. (I’m certainly no lawyer, of course.) There are ways of uses soci...
Twitter, Chat and More Career Site Interactivity from Standout Jobs
Imported 7 months ago.Over the weekend, Standout Jobs released new functionality - primarily aimed at increasing career site interactivity. Those features include: Chat. The chat feature allows you to schedule group chats, so you can invite a bunch of people to visit your career site and communicate with you. This co...
Quantum Relies on Standout Jobs to Power Recruitment Micro-Sites
Imported 8 months ago.Global Storage, Backup and Recovery Giant Steps up Employer Branding Initiatives with Niche Employment Portals Montreal, March 24, 2009 – Standout Jobs, a leading provider of web-based tools to power companies’ online recruiting efforts, today announced it has signed Quantum Corporation (NYSE...
Polk Wins Arbor Award of Excellence
Imported 8 months ago.Polk was an early Standout Jobs beta customer. And they also did a case study on the success they’ve seen with the platform, specifically in attracting younger job seekers and saving money on costly recruiters. And now Polk has won an Arbor Award of Excellence for innovative or best resources i...
Recruiting Survey Results: Shift Away from Job Boards Ongoing
Imported 8 months ago.Recruiters Expect Hiring to Increase in Q2-Q3; Social Media Eyed to Source Quality Candidates More than 450 corporate recruiters signal shift away from job boards and place more emphasis on corporate branding to attract high-value hires. Montreal | March 11, 2009 — A just completed joint survey...
Ben Yoskovitz Featured on Recruiter Earth
Imported 8 months ago.Ben Yoskovitz was recently featured on the popular HR-targeted social network, Recruiter Earth, talking about Standout Jobs and where the recruitment industry is headed. He also recently published a guest article on Cheezhead, entitled “Is the recession dooming startups?” The article looks a...
Standout Jobs Updates Career Sites and Applicant Tracking System
Imported 8 months ago.Standout Jobs recently released a number of new and enhanced features to our Recruitment Communication Platform. Multiple micro-site management: You can now more easily manage multiple micro-sites from within one interface and administrative dashboard. Leveraging multiple micro-sites is extremel...
Recruiters Expect Hiring to Increase in Q2-Q3 and Social Media Eyed to Source Quality Candidates
Imported 8 months ago.At the beginning of January, Standout Jobs and PBP Media launched a Recruiting Trends 2009 Survey. We’re now ready to publish the results. Get Full Recruiting Trends Survey Results Here We had over 450 respondents dominated by corporate HR professionals and recruiters. The results come from a b...
Join Interactive Brands as a Web Designer
Imported 9 months ago.Interactive Brands is looking for a Web Integrator / Web Designer. Interactive Brands does a very good job of describing their company on their career site: Interactive Brands is a privately held corporation, it was formed by a team of experienced industry professionals who had a vision of creati...
UpClick.com Adds New Montreal Jobs
Imported 9 months ago.UpClick.com, a growing and successful Montreal-based technology company, has recently added new jobs to its career site. Click here to visit UpClick’s career site. The latest jobs include: Call Center Supervisor Senior Network Administrator .NET Programmer / Analyst UpClick.com has over 90 em...
Is Recruiting like Sales, Marketing or Both?
Imported 9 months ago.APCQ’s and Kennedy’s recent recruiting benchmarking study discovered that very few organizations ask new hires about their experience during the recruitment process. It’s simply not something companies measure. But most people agree that the candidate experience has a direct and significant...
No One Ever Gets Fired for Posting on Monster
Imported 9 months ago.I’ve heard this said all too often. Sometimes the person replaces “Monster” with another of the big job boards, but I think Monster’s brand still leads the way as the definitive job board online. So most of the time people say “Monster” when they want to reference one of the big job b...
Top Strategic Way to Increase Applicant Traffic
Imported 9 months ago.Mike Astringer asks, Is employment branding a part of your organization’s recruitment strategy? It should be. Mike points out that employment branding has been called the #1 strategic way of increasing applicant traffic. But how much are companies spending on it? On average, companies spend les...
Cool Calgary Jobs at Game Startup Ph03nix New Media
Imported 9 months ago.Silicon Valley isn’t the only place that has cool startups. Case in point: Ph03nix New Media, makers of the very popular game, Curse of the Pharaoh: Quest for Nefertiti. Ph03nix New Media real focus is on games to help kids learn. It’s a noble, big mission and the company is taking it head o...
How To Succeed with Strategic Recruiting - Kevin Wheeler White Paper
Imported 9 months ago.We’ve just launched our first white paper - Strategic Recruiting: How To Succeed - written by our good friend and advisor, Kevin Wheeler. Kevin is a visionary and leader in the HR and recruitment space. We very much appreciate his support and involvement with this project. I believe a great dea...
New Applicant Tracking System Features at Standout Jobs
Imported 9 months ago.Standout Jobs has recently released a number of applicant tracking system related features. 1. Pick whether or not to use the Standout Jobs applicant tracking system. This is the first option available. You can use our built-in applicant tracking and candidate relationship management system or p...
How Important is Being an Employer of Choice?
Imported 10 months ago.We hear the phrase “employer of choice” quite often. Awards are given out by various groups, and those companies that are labeled as an “employer of choice” tend to promote this fact a great deal. But what does it really mean? And how important is it? Polly Pearson at EMC shares some of t...
