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 deal in the value of strategic recruiting - thinking long-term vs. short-term - building value over time that makes recruitment more efficient and effective.
Why Strategic Recruiting is Critical to Your Success:
- Better visibility into upcoming issues
- Knowledge of new and potentially more efficient or cheaper technologies
- The development of a higher quality candidate pipeline
- A much improved time to present qualified candidates to hiring managers
What you get:
The free white paper covers the basics of strategic recruiting, how to gain management approval and includes 6 quick tips for getting started. We know that implementing a strategic recruiting strategy takes some time and investment, but this white paper will make clear the benefits in terms of lowering your cost per hire, lowering turnover, improving quality of hire and being more successful.
Get the white paper now
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 on.
And the company is dedicated to building a kick-ass team with a great work environment. Here’s what they’ve written on their career site:
Help us build the kind of work environment you wish existed! At Ph03nix New Media, your growth and well-being are our # 1 priority. We believe that the physical, emotional, and financial well being of our staff have a direct influence on workplace performance. Why else would we have company-wide volunteering initiatives, or give employees 10% of their time to work on pet projects?
Ph03nix New Media has a number of job openings:
You can very quickly get a sense of Ph03nix New Media’s culture and style by reading some of their job postings. Just look at the start of the Vice President of Marketing role:
Does the following statement give you chills up your spine?
“We got a 30% increase in landing page G conversions! Our ARPU shot up by $2!”
If so, we want to talk to you!
We are looking for an energetic VP of Marketing with a quiet obsession with online marketing & split testing.
Although you might not think of Calgary as a hotbed of startup activity, I think you’d be surprised at the opportunities there. And here’s a great example of a young, dynamic company doing some cool stuff and looking for some great people.
The team at Standout Jobs couldn’t resist the silly e-card phenomenon. And of course, they make me look like the grumpy one! Anyway…
Happy Holidays and New Year!
It’s been an incredible year at Standout Jobs - next year will be just as wild. There’s a lot going on, and a lot of news to announce in early 2009, so stay tuned. And enjoy any time off that you get to enjoy.
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Just a quick update on some of the press and news at Standout Jobs:
You can track all the latest news about Standout Jobs in our Press Section.
With the launch of our new recruitment communication platform, I want to make sure we highlight the differences, new features and enhancements versus the original product.
And one of the biggest upgrades is the ability for customers to custom design their career sites easily.
When we first launched, career sites had a standard 3-column layout. This made it easy to allow people to drag & drop widgets and features onto the career site and customize colors. But we knew it wouldn’t be enough for everyone. Some companies love the 3-column layout and style. Others wanted more flexibility to design their career sites in any way imaginable; most often with the intent of matching the design of their corporate site.
That flexibility is now possible through our CSS editor. But what’s really important is that you can still drag & drop widgets and features onto a custom designed career site. This means that you can have any career site design you want, but when it’s time to build out the site and add content, it’s as easy as ever.
Here are a couple examples of custom designed career sites:
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I’m at the ERE Expo along with our VP Business Development, Steve McNair, for the next couple of days to connect with partners, customers, colleagues and friends. The last ERE show in San Diego was a blast; and I was able to present Standout Jobs at the Startup Forum. I look forward to watching the forum this time around, especially Jeff Stewart from Urgent Career. Jeff’s new startup is in the HR space - focusing on improved matching technology targeting the hiring of sales and business development people. He’s also an investor in Standout Jobs.
At ERE, we’re sponsoring breakfast on the first day. We look forward to connecting with as many people as possible.
As well, we’ve launched a special webinar series for ERE attendees.
To view the details of the webinar and the schedule click here.
We have 3 webinars scheduled over the next 2 weeks or so. Each will be around 1-hour long where we’ll introduce you to our Recruitment Communication Platform. This won’t be a PowerPoint presentation. Steve will be giving live demos of the platform to show you how easy it is to get a career site or recruitment micro-site up and running. This will be a nuts & bolts presentation, which I think most people will appreciate.
Of course, even if you’re not attending ERE, we’d welcome your attendance at our webinars. Just click here, scroll to the bottom and pick a time slot. It’s as easy as that!
If you are at ERE - we look forward to meeting you.
On Saturday, August 16th at 9pm EDT I’ll be a guest on the Aaron Brazell Show talking about how to find a job, the state of the economy and other interesting things around social media and leveraging it in the world of employment.
You can listen in (and participate) live here: http://www.talkshoe.com/tc/22406.
You can also subscribe via iTunes.
Aaron Brazell is a social media guru and most recently was the Director of Technology at b5media.
The show itself (if you look through the archives) is an eclectic mix of social media, politics, current events and more. There have been quite a few interesting and diverse guests, hopefully I can hold my own!
Our very own, Marc-Andre Cournoyer (first employee at Standout Jobs!), is speaking at MeshU at the end of May where he’ll be giving a workshop on using Rack and Thin to solve performance issues and have some fun.
MeshU is a 1-day tech affair covering design, development and management on May 20th, coinciding with the Mesh Conference.
Other speakers at MeshU include: Leah Culver (Pownce), Daniel Burka (Digg), John Resig (Mozilla), Avi Bryant (DabbleDB) and more.
If you’re interested in hearing Marc-Andre (and you should be!) and others talk about technology, design, etc. check out MeshU…
The first episode of The Social Media Recruiting Show was a great success. Chris Russell and I had a lot of fun talking about social media recruiting, and we received some great feedback after the show.
Our second show is coming up this week: Thursday, March 20th @ 12pm EDT
Please come listen: The Social Media Recruiting Show
We’ve invited a guest — Dennis Smith from WirelessJobs.com so that we can focus most of the show on blogging and how to use a blog in recruiting.
I’m a huge believer in blogging and its value in building a reputation (for people and/or companies), and reaching into the community to join the conversation. I’ve been blogging for over 2 years (primarily at Instigator Blog) and its brought me a lot of great things - tons of valuable contacts, friends, business opportunities and more. You can’t go wrong with blogging - and it can most definitely be used for recruiting purposes.
So don’t forget — this Thursday (March 20th) @ 12pm EDT — come to http://www.blogtalkradio.com/SocialMediaRecruiting/ and listen in. We’ll also have phone lines available for people to call in and ask questions.
Chris Russell and I have only recently gotten to know each other, but we’re both in the business of helping companies leverage social media and social networking tools for recruiting purposes. So we decided it’d be fun (and hopefully educational and worthwhile) to start up an online radio show.
Enter: The Social Media Recruiting Show
Date/Time: Thursday, March 6th @ 12pm EST
We’re running it using BlogTalkRadio which allows Chris and I to chat, but also allows others to come in and ask questions.
Chris describes the show perfectly:
The goal of this program is to educate HR people and recruiters on the evolving social media landscape as it pertains to recruiting. We encourage anyone interested to call in and ask questions about things like Facebook, Youtube, blogging or any other web 2.0 technology that can help you recruit.
Chris and I will each take a couple of minutes to introduce a topic of interest - related to social media/networking in recruiting - and then we’re off to the races. Hopefully people will call in, ask us questions, comment on news in the recruiting industry, and so on. We’ll make it as free form and open as possible. And I think it will be a lot of fun.
So come listen in (and participate!) at The Social Media Recruiting Show (Thursday, March 6th @ 12pm EST).
