Joel Cheesman, President, HRSEO
Blogger’s view of online recruitment and beyond
“I’m in control. The individual is in control.”
Risk is good!!! Stare risk in the eye and take a chance!!! It’s not life or death.
Information overload – people are overloaded with information.
N’sync, sold 1 million albums first week, Napster. The Long Tail became an infinite tail of data for music. The tail is getting longer with job sites.
Search is very important to local job sites. Search is intent based advertising. Vertical search is particular channels. Indeed, Simplyhired, Jobster, etc.
API – I can take the technology of a company and put it on my own site.
Monster is not customer friendly.
Myspace – the suits moved in, TOS change so that we own it, critical mass attracts the evil doers now. Candidate for governor has a Myspace page. How uncool is that to young people.
Verticals have a problem with monetization. Simplyhired, lets get as many seekers as possible.
2 blogs created every second. What if you had blogs that showed the true face of the corporation. Showed “what if” example for McDonald’s with audience member.
Attract passive seeker with blogs.
Push versus pull – the world is changing about pull instead of push. Be remarkable!!! (or are you linkworthy?)
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Shally Steckerl, Manager, Core Technical Central Sourcing Team, Microsoft Corp
Raised in Colombia, South America, has worked in Nicaragua and Australia
Former Peace Corps, conduct and train on International Sourcing
Why does sourcing differ from country to country? Privacy standards, solicitation is not OK in some places, blogging is not increasing at the same rate in other countries, some people perplexed by this amount of information and you need to read up on cultural nuances of each target company.
Windowontheworldonline.com – useful country cultural information
Recruiting works best by region, while sourcing typically works best by channel.
Topjobsites.com
Searchenginecolossus.com – country specific search engines
Domain extensions typically correlate with ISO country codes.
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Patrick Sullivan, President, Workopolis
Canada’s biggest generalist job board, niche in terms of country focus
51% think they will find your next role on the web
Pecking order in Canada: Workopolis, Working, Monster, Jobboom
Strong partnerships with newspapers
Tiered levels – now additional fees
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Peter Weddle, Edito and Publisher, Weddles.com
Climbed the Matterhorn – outstanding story
The way you approach a challenge allow you to define success.
The war for any talent (there is still battle wounds from this in my opinion) morphed into the war for the best talent
Scarcity on verticals and for A-level performers
Defining attributes
– They are passionate about their career
– They’re not as rare as you think
– They listened to their mother
– They must be convinced to change devils
We need to understand what works best?
Prediction: job boards will double every three years.
Specialization and Transformation
There is no barrier to entry in the online employment industry
It is one the most successful segments of the e-commerce space
It’s tough to tell a well capitalized, well run site from something else
It’s surprises Peter that the institutional knowledge is not collected for the enterprise
International Association of Employment Web Sites (800+ sites)
Protect the privacy of information, the data that they report to you is accurate
Career Community Centers are the new trend
2GP + 3N + 2D = 1GH
Summary
Advantages
Benefits
Capabilities
Sign-off/Call to Action
(tailor your information)
Mentioned University of Michigan study in which hiring managers were only 4% better than a coin flip.
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John Sumser, Founder and President, IBN: interbiznet.com
Death of Diversity
– No Longer a Theory
– Requires Practical Tolerance
– Not Acceptance, Reliance
– Harness What You Already Have
Top 10
Transparency
Quantify and Test Your Assumptions
Lead With Like Gets Like
Encourage Collaborative Communications
Embrace Negative Publicity
Create Dynamic Employee Feedbackloops
Define Workforce Requirements, Flexible Solutions
Practice Small Group Commnity Development
Tune Employment Brand To Desired Workforce
Teach The problem. Use the Data. Encourage Dialog.
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John Younger, Founder and CEO, Accolo
Employee Referrals are the Best Source of Candidates
Only the Outcome Counts
It’s the Work, Not the Job
Align the Values
Job Seeker and Hiring Manager Satisfaction trending lower
94% of online applicants never hear anything from anyone
Disrespect is now expected from candidate.
Exactly the same model is being used from 1963 – more tools does not equal more productivity!!!
Battle of the Brands
Corporate Brand
– Become Employer of Choice
– Focus only on Corporate Success
Personal Brand
– MySpace
– Family Web Site
– Personal website
Interesting Work – why the right person would want the job
Personal Interest at this time
His Currency
Trust
Accuracy
Relevancy
Recruiting Relativity Theory – Desire to move is not a constant
Conclusions
– We are all “temporaries”, it’s just a matter of degrees
– We are all in various stages of availability
– The term “candidate” only defines a stage of life
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Matthew Parker, Group Managing Direcor, StepStone Solutions
Europe – labor shortage (20 million by 2030 per projections)
Sweden – Candidate must authorize data deletion
Matthew detailed a number of very interesting problems with data and legal conflict in Europe.
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Louis Vong, VP Interactive Strategy, TMP (talks too fast)
Mobile networking is the web outside.
Mobile users are using “fill time”
There are more mobile than landline phone subscribers at this point n time
350 Billion text messages are exchanged every month
Advergaming – $1.8 Billion by 2008
Starbucks – Summer Scavenger Hunt
Dodgeball.com
Wiffiti
Download mobile assessment tests involving games
Gave away an Ipod by asking for a text of the alphabet – half the respondents in attendance got it wrong! Scary indeed.
(If you attended the ERE conference – come see what you missed at Onrec!)