Before getting to my five thesis, two tiny mental games: If you envision an image of a company is assembled by its Product-, Employer- and finally its Company Brand and you would consider the Company Brand and/or the Product Brand gone; what will remain? The Employer Brand. Try this evaluation with companies, such as Amazon, […]
Have you ever asked yourself how Google works? The life span of a Google query normally lasts less than half a second, yet involves a number of different steps that must be completed before results can be delivered to a person seeking information. This infographic below provides a good overview what happens when creating content […]
More and more social (sharing) tools are coming available on the market that promise to boost your Employee Referral Program (ERP). These tools are build to easily share your vacancies via employees on their preferred social network of choice e.g. Facebook, LinkedIn or Twitter. But will such a tool really make a big impact? Dr. […]
Another infographic with an overview of the top 20 nationalities that immigrate to the USA in 2008: Click on the picture to enlarge it
Erik Qualman is the man behind a great series of videos in which the the development, in facts and figures, of social media is beautifully portrait. It had been a while since he published his last video, Social Media ROI in November 2009, but now there is an updated version of the original video ‘Social […]
On request and by popular demand, I’ve compiled a list of facts and figures about the most professional networking site; LinkedIn. Did you know that the LinkedIn.com site was launched exactly 7 years ago, on 5 May 2003, and has 66,266,528 members at this moment? LinkedIn corporation has currently 500 employees with its headquarters based […]
End 2009 research was conducted in 164 Australian organisations with over 500 employees, representing a total of over 730,000 employees, about their Human Resources Information System (HRIS). The responses have been collated in the “Navigo Australian HR Tech Report 2010” (free copy to download). Over 70% of enterprise-level organisations in Australia use a HRIS. Not […]
The Searchologist (formerly Searchology) is a video series that explores online lead generation strategies for Recruiters and Sales professionals. In this episode, Jim Stroud discusses the fierce competition between Google and Bing and what he find intriguing about the Bing search engine. [vimeo]http://www.vimeo.com/6377121[/vimeo] Great job Jim!
LinkedIn, more than any other business networking site has a truly global reach. There are now over 60 million users throughout the world and this is growing by a staggering 2 million every month (LinkedIn claim that a new user signs up every second). LinkedIn can be used for many different purposes (finding a job, […]
Every week I post a recruitment video or presentation on the Global Recruiting Roundtable blog. From Herman Miller, a manufacturer of office chairs, comes this beautiful employer branding video that should appeal to both internal employees and potential candidates: