Digg Recruitment Video - Fun and Effective
Friday, April 25th, 2008 |Life at Digg is one big party! Who would not want to work there? As proof, check out the video below. (Hat tip to Shannon for Twittering this one.)
Archive for the ‘Social Media Recruiting’ Category
The Week In Recruiting (Reading the blogs, so you don’t have to…)
Monday, April 21st, 2008 |My top 15 for the week…
I have noticed a sharp increase in recruiters on Twitter these days, thus the video below…
1. Resume Forensics is free and for sale (at the same time) 2. Cutting-edge recruitment advertising 3. Dress up. Its about to get cold in Asia 4. Top 15 Japanese Online Job Boards 5. Number seven is believing you know it all 6. Don’t know much about history. Don’t know much about graphology. 7. We’re going worldwide 8. Marketing Cage Match: Harry vs Seth. 2 men enter, 1 man leave 9. All I want to see is the money 10. A world without HR (Heaven or Hell?)
11. The Good, The Bad and The Ugly 12. Talentdrive gets a facelift (Its more than just a pretty face) 13. The goddess is Twitteriffic 14. Stuck in a job without the possibility of a raise yet, I am content 15. For women, pay drops as your weight gains 15.5 Hat tip to Rosie the Riveter for referring the video above
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Linkedin is growing faster than Facebook
Wednesday, April 16th, 2008 |Before you can recruit passive prospects online, you have to be where they are (or where they will most likely be). Gee, that’s kind of deep. Well, if you want to know where a lot of passive prospects will be… its (drumroll please) Linkedin. (www.linkedin.com)
Compared to other Social Networks, Linkedin had the most impressive growth rate by escalating in audience growth 271%. WOW! To put that in perspective, Facebook’s new audience share doubled, but only by 102%. (Not bad by any means, but still… its not 271%.)
Its also notable to cite that MySpace’s unique audience totaled 55.4 million in February 2008, more than double Facebook’s 20.0 million.
Check out the stats below, courtesy of Nielsen Media
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How to recruit Latin America
Tuesday, April 15th, 2008 |If you are tasked with recruiting diversity (and if you are not, you should be), you might want to take a look at Social Networks; especially if you are targeting Latin American countries. (The traffic on Social Networks in that region is doubling! Yowza!!) Check out this data from Marketing Charts.
The number of social network users in five major Latin American countries (Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Colombia and Mexico) more than doubled from Jan. ‘07 to to Jan. ‘08 - it was up 103% - according to an Analytics 2.0 analysis, using comScore data.
During the same period, the number of US Hispanic and Puerto Rican social-network users increased 48%.
The main social networks of the five-country LatAm region, by number of users:
- Orkut - 12.9 million (up 27% from 10.1 million in ‘07)
- Sonico - 7.3 million (Sonico launched during the second half of ‘07)
- hi5 - 4.2 million (up 72% from 2.2 million in Jan. ‘07)
- MySpace - around 3 million (13 million users in all markets analyzed
- Facebook - 2.2 million (up 4,1525 from Jan. ‘07 count of 52,000)
If you like this kind of thing, you definitely want to download this report - The Social Networks in Latin America (PDF)
Here is a snippet…
The global phenomenon of social networks is landing in Latin America. Techcrunch recently published an article about Sonico (Sonico.com) describing it as the largest and most unknown social network in the region (Http://www.techcrunch.com/2008/02/16/sonicothe-biggest-social-networking-site-youveprobably-never-heard-of/).
Social networks are the foundation of the Web 2.0 - would be the equivalent of the traditional Web portals - and consist of sites where users can create a profile and contact other people. These users produce content that can be shared with the other members of the network. Social Networks, the BIG THING on the Latam and US Hispanic internet markets.
However, so far it has not been dimensioned clearly the impact that social networks are taking among Internet users in the region, because the debate is been driven to a purely impressionistic one. With focused on providing conclusive data about this phenomenon we analyzed data from ComScore.
According to comScore - a paid subscription service that audits the Internet audiences - the number of Internet users in the five major countries of the region (Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Colombia and Mexico) approached 46.3 million in January (2008). The internet users from the above mentioned period is 16% higher than the 39.8 million internet users in January 2007.
If we consider also the Puerto Rican and US Hispanics Internet Users the number jumps to 66 millions, with the same growth rate since January 2007. The audience from the main social networks (bebo, facebook, friendster, hi5, mySpace, Orkut and Sonico) is approximately 29.6 million in 5 Latin American, reaching the 64% of the total internet users population, which means that 6 of each 10 internet users in the above mentioned Latin American Countries are using one of the mentioned Social Networks.
The Puerto Rican and US Hispanic audience from the above mentioned social networks is about 15.2 million, or 77% of the Internet Audiences from the mentioned Markets. Since the penetrations of the Puerto Rican and US Hispanic markets are higher we would infer that the penetration from the Latin American markets will tend to reach those levels.
Click here to download - “The Social Networks in Latin America” (PDF)
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How to Use Social Bookmarking Websites
Thursday, April 10th, 2008 |Someone asked me how useful is the “Share This” tool cited at the end of every blog post. (See picture below)
I thought about writing a long article on the significance of Social Bookmarks but when I saw the video below, I thought, “Why reinvent the wheel?” Besides, I am a big fan of the Commoncraft videos. So if you would, check out the video below, then bookmark your favorite articles on “The Recruiters Lounge.” I will appreciate it and so will others looking for similar content.
I just had a thought! How helpful would it be for recruiters if Jobseekers used Social Bookmarks to promote their online resumes? Hmmm… Might be a good idea to pass along to those job hunters you come in contact with everyday.
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VIDEO - The Recruiters Lounge - How to get fresh resumes sent to your cellphone
Thursday, March 27th, 2008 |
How to get fresh resumes sent to your cellphone
How would you like to automate your resume sourcing and get more balance in your life? Jim Stroud reveals an online tool that will send fresh resumes to your mobile phone for free! Check out the video below for more details.
How To Get Fresh Resumes Sent To Your Cellphone from Jim Stroud on Vimeo.
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How to find Software Developers on Twitter
Wednesday, March 26th, 2008 |Do you know how to find Software Developers on Twitter? Its not so hard. Let me show you how.
1. Go to the Twitter Search page (shown below)
2. Type in “Software Developer” (With or without quotes, you get the same results)
3. Get results like below. What you are looking at are people who signed up for Twitter and added their job title in their profiles.
See how easy that was? Well, suppose you are looking for more than Software Developers? Are there other types of passive candidates I can target on Twitter? Sure! Here is a list I put together as food for thought.
- A search on “Software Developers” brought back 485 results.
- A search on “Software Engineer” brought back 485 results.
- A search on “Nurse” brought back 157 results.
- A search on “VP of Marketing” brought back 23 results.
- A search on “VP of Sales” brought back 5 results.
- A search on “CEO” brought back 9 results.
- A search on “chemist” brought back 29 results.
- A search on “Electrical Engineer” brought back 40 results.
- A search on “CTO” brought back 485 results.
- A search on “Programmer” brought back 980 results.
If you like this type of thing, be sure to subscribe to my blog. More big news is coming soon.
Happy Hunting!
Jim Stroud
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I accepted a role as a Social Media Development Manager
Tuesday, March 25th, 2008 |Hi guys!
It is with mixed emotions that I leave the house of Microsoft, but I feel compelled to follow my heart. Sometimes you can stay in a role too long and burn yourself out; should you ever find yourself in that position, my advice is to follow your passion. As you may have guessed from the content on this site, I have a passion for new media and how it can be applied in various ways (least of all, recruiting).
Well… (drumroll please) I recently accepted a position as a Social Media Development Manager. I will be working for an established company based in Silicon Valley, CA that has made a ton of money in the B2B space. I will be assisting them in promoting their B2C offering. I will continue to work from my home office. (Does that rock, or what?!!) I can’t go into detail now because the company has not yet announced their new startup division, but I will as soon as I am able. (Hope I can count on your support when the time comes?)
So what does this mean for this blog? Not entirely sure; at the moment I am considering several options. I mean, my career is shifting, so the stuff that I want to blog about will no doubt change as well. Will I continue this as an Recruiting/Employment blog? Will it morph into more of a Social Media twist on recruiting? Will I sell out? Will I merge my content with a certain site? All very interesting questions, that I have no answers for at this writing. I will however, keep you in the loop as things develop. For now, expect more of the same. (Smile)
Cheers,
Jim Stroud
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Kudos to The Research Goddess
Monday, March 24th, 2008 |
My pal - Amybeth Hale was recently interviewed by AdAge (a major publication). The article is called, “The New Way to Network for a Job” and discusses how people are using Social Media to find work. Definitely worth a read. (IMHO)
Way to go Amybeth!
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Diigo Launches V3: A Marriage between Rich Web Research Tools and Social Networking
Monday, March 24th, 2008 |
I am SOOOO hyped about this product! (And no, I am not getting paid to say that.) I love, love, love Diigo and it is an indispensible tool in my online arsenal. Click here to take an online tour of Diigo and get hooked as deeply as I am. And once you are a member, send me a friend request. Cool?
Anyways, check out the latest Diigo press release.
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Reno, Nevada, March 20, 2008 — Diigo, http://www.diigo.com, today announced the launch of Diigo 3.0, a next generation social bookmarking and annotation service that enables users to increase research productivity, readily exchange information, and connect with others who share their interests and concerns.
This launch includes a completely new UI and code base, and over 100 new features. In addition to substantial improvements in its usability and power as a research tool, the new Diigo tightly integrates social networking with knowledge-sharing, making Diigo a pioneer in what may be called “social information networking.”
Following is an overview of the new features and enhancements:
Improved usability as a research tool:The entire browser extension has been re-designed for improved ease of use, and it now provides a sidebar where a user can easily search and access his bookmarks, and view all the annotations associated with the current web page. On the website, a new and innovative way to organize bookmarks as lists is provided, in addition to organizing by tags.
Improvements as a team research platform: Diigo’s powerful group bookmarks and annotations have been further improved. Group members can now vote up bookmarks so important information emerges on the top. Group tag dictionary, an innovative concept by Diigo, is introduced to help tagging consistency.
Social Browsing: Diigo Toolbar now enables a social browsing experience. While you are reading a web page, the Diigo sidebar shows you who else has bookmarked or commented on this page, who else has bookmarked other pages on the same site, and what other similar pages and sites they have bookmarked.
Personalized Social Content: Diigo as a source of social content has been substantially enhanced. You can now find and subscribe to the most recent or most popular bookmarks under any set of tags. You can also discover interesting content through your friends. Based on your bookmarking activities, Diigo provides recommended news and resources personalized to your interests.
Social Information Networking: Rich social networking features have been tightly integrated with social bookmarking and annotation to enable more meaningful social connections and intellectual exchanges. So you can keep in touch and interact with friends through readings and annotations non-intrusively and with little extra effort. Multiple ways are provided for sharing information with friends both on Diigo and elsewhere, with varying degrees of non-intrusiveness. You can also find “people like me” - those who are closest to you in interests, or search people by tags or sites to find others who share certain specific interests with you. Once you find people of interest to you, you can connect with them in multiple ways: invite them to add you as a friend, send them messages, invite them to a group, or simply add them to your watchlist.
“The new Diigo combines the best of social networking, bookmarking, highlighting, and annotating to let people discover, save, and share the information that is important to them personally or professionally,” said Wade Ren, CEO of Diigo. “Not only can people find a collective repository of searchable and relevant information, but they can markup and save information along the way - all while keeping in touch with friends and connecting with like-minded people.”
About Diigo, Inc
Founded in 2005, Diigo was a pioneer in “social annotation”, providing robust tools that enable seamless bookmarking, tagging, highlighting, clipping, annotating, sharing, and searching of information to deliver a new level of productivity for knowledge workers. Diigo has been called “”a move to maturity in the Web 2.0″ and “a research tool that rocks”.
With this new release, Diigo continues a tradition of innovation by tightly integrating social networking with knowledge sharing, making the new Diigo a pioneer in what may be called “social information networking”.
Diigo is pronounced as Dee’go. The name “Diigo” is an abbreviation for “Digest of Internet Information, Groups and Other stuff.”, an intentional open mandate for Diigo to relentlessly innovate to make Diigo the best knowledge sharing and management platform for individuals, work groups, and companies. Diigo is privately held, and based in Reno, NV.
For more information, please visit http://www.diigo.com.
Contact: Maggie Tsai, VP, Corporate Development
maggie @ diigo.com
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