PODCAST - Wowzers! My first podcast on ERE

Posted by Jim Stroud

October 16, 2006

I recently had the pleasure of recording a podcast for ERE. Its called “The Big Idea” and it was included in an article called “Examining the Online Experience of Job Candidates.” (Who knows, in time I may be doing a lot more of them - wink.)

Here is a snippet of the article…

A recent CareerXroads study, which examines the staffing pages of Fortune Magazine’s annual list of America’s 500 largest public corporations, includes a “mystery shopping” job-search. Twenty unemployed HR volunteers applied electronically for an administrative assistant position (under the assumed name Ted E. Baer) on each of Fortune Magazine’s list of America’s 100 Best Companies to Work For.

The report provides a thorough analysis of what is working and what could be improved. For example, the report says that both Kodak and Johnson & Johnson build extensive themes that appeal to specific prospects.

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