Back in July, I reported on MyCareer’s search for excellence.  MyCareer were testing a new search box on their home page with keyword and category search versus keyword only.

Seems that the winner is the old keyword and category search. It would be interesting to see the A/B test results to see how the keyword-only search fared.

Update: 16/09/08

I don’t know what is going on at MyCareer now…the keyword-only box is back up.  Perhaps they’re still doing A/B testing?

Monday morning’s  peak time for job-hunters, so I thought I’d start this week off by highlighting some of the available online recruitment industry jobs.  So, for those of you who can’t stand the thought of another week of the same old, same old, check these out:

State Sales Manager
Excellent opportunity to lead the MyCareer team in Brisbane!

Online Marketing Manager - CareerOne
Based in our brand new offices in Surrey Hills

Business Development / Sales Executive - JobsJobsJobs
We are on the search for a sales professional to join our team in Sydney.

Business Development Manager - LinkMe - Neutral Bay, NSW
$60,000 to $100,000; Full time; Neutral Bay NSW 2089

Graphic Designer - LinkMe - St Kilda, Vic
An exciting new role has been created to support both the Development and Marketing teams of LinkMe

Senior Strategy Analyst - Seek
Work for SEEK, an entrepreneurial, market leading company

Plenty more roles at Seek. Click here

Drop me a line if I have missed any. Email: gjennings(at)onrec.com.au

For those of you who can’t be bothered watching this video, it’s a short film about Youtube in the mid-eighties. You remember those times? Big phones (bigger hair), beta and VHS tapes sent via snail mail, the person-to-person interaction required for any purchase…all that. This video speaks volumes about how many aspects of media have changed. Many aspects.

Then again - there are still a few media organisations running like this, and I’m referring particularly to print media. The way it operates is not unlike what is represented in this video…person-to-person interaction for every purchase, big phones, nonchalant telestaff who care more about their photos of Michael J. Fox than the customer. Well. Maybe not that last bit. Delete Michael J. Fox. replace with, say, Brad Pitt.

It’s an anarchic medium, print. And the sooner folks begin to direct more of their revenues, staffing contingencies and marketing into online, the more ready they will be for communication in the next decade.

I took this picture the other day while driving of a DeLorean. ( He wasn’t going 88 miles per hour yet).

CareerOne have launched a game called ‘Tackle Your Boss’ on their home page.  This is a great way to get the contact details of potential candidates because, to register a score, you need to give up your details.

It’s quite addictive.  Give it a try, if you have a few hours to lose…

My best is 84.915m which places me in 616 place.  Give me a few days and I may figure out how the winner got over 85m.

Seek has announced the 2008 finalists for the Seek Annual Recruitment Awards (SARA).

The winners will be announced on September 19th with an invitation–only cocktail ceremony.

Who’s feeling popular today?

I’ve discussed 2vouch on this Onrec blog already back in February Vouching For 2Vouch . Today they launched in Beta. Congratulations.

Social referral sites such as 2vouch and Hoojano(which launched some months back) will be a prominent aspect of how we recruit into the future. The idea is nothing new, as indicated by the old adage 2vouch has chosen to adopt as their motto, “It’s not what you know…” (initially they had a genie as part of their campaign. I wanna know where the genie’s gone:)). Being social creatures, we communicate with one another. Being creatures ruled by the ego, we like to be “in the loop”, and being creatures driven by economic concerns, we like to make money. 2vouch satisfies all the needs.

Recruiters pay referral fees to people who give them a lead on a placement. 2vouch is merely formalising this already-existing convention.

Online recruitment has placed some jobs on 2vouch, to give it a go. Stay tuned for how that’s tracking…I wish, I wish (picture me rubbing the magic lantern here) for several successful job placements….

Where’s the Genie??

Whilst you may not agree with everything I write, betcha no one out there is gonna raise a holler about my bagging of spam. Hate it. It’s illegal. And in this world where time is a highly-valued commodity, a spammer’s almost up there with drug-pushers, politicians and parking inspectors as the lowest of the low.

Having said that, it’s interesting that Jobs (powered by JobX) has decided to walk the rocky boundary between legitimate communication with registered clients and plain old stinky spam.

I get a plethora of emails like this from Jobs (note that, rather ironically, one is entitled “how much is your time worth”.

A bit of research on my part has revealed that they have been sent by convicted spammer Wayne Mansfield.

Officially, these emails are not spam. But they smell the same.

Geoff - How Much Is Your Time Worth

SPECIAL OFFER to JOBS registered clients

As part of our continuing Value Added Offerings to our clients, we have negoatiated a special rate for Australia’s most popular Time Management seminar - Effective Time Management.

If you act quickly, you can secure your place at one of the seminars being presented across Australia from September 8th through 11th, 2008 at a 33% discount to the normal recommended retail price. So instead of $167 you pay ONLY $111.

Claim your discount by entering this code in the space usually provided for your web address on the online booking form: JOBSSEPT2008

Offers expires September 2nd, 2008 5pm Western Standard Time.
______________________________

__________________________

“Burnt out, stressed out, rundown and tired? Out of balance; out of control?
Frustrated with wheel spinning? Too much to do; not enough time to do it.”

What you need is a way to learn….

EFFECTIVE TIME MANAGEMENT

 

Blah, blah…

Business Seminars Australia
Excellence in Business Education
Perth Western Australia… as close as you get to Paradise on Earth
Email: wayne.mansfield@gmail.com visit us at www.au1865.com or
www.waynemansfield.com
Australia’s best seminar schedule is at www.stumpjump.net
Phone: (+61 9221 0922 Fax: (+61 9221 0933

http://www.linkedin.com/in/waynemansfield

Business Seminars Australia
Celebrating 21 years in Business Education
ABN: 45 119 694 558
Postal: P.O. Box 6Ø99, East Perth W.A. 6892
Phone: (Ø8) 9463 78Ø7 Fax: (Ø8) 9463 78Ø8

Business Seminars Australia Plus Offers Update
The Maverick Spirit

This is being sent to: ??????@gmail.com
This advice is being sent to people who have registered at a JOBS
website and therefore have supplied their contact information by
subscribing to one of JOBS or its asscoiated companies services.

This particular communication is a special offer to people who have
registered at a JOBS website.

 

 

Ooooooooooooooom.

Oh. You’re here. Sorry. Didn’t mean to be rude, just getting into the spirit of things. It’s Krishna’s birthday this weekend. Big celebrations around town - and I’ve given a spot of yoga a go. Got me thinking…

This has nothing at all to do with New-Age propaganda. It’s a well-established idea that stress interferes with cognitive function and behavior. Put simply, if you’re feeling overwhelmed, you probably aren’t too nice to be around and you can’t solve problems as well as you normally can. And your muscles react. They clench up into balls and send additional signals to your brain telling it that you are stressed. A vicious…vicious cycle. Ooooooooooooooom.

Get your yoga balls out, team. They were all the rage in offices in the early nineties. And if you feel like a frootloop sitting at your desk on a slippery big ball and prefer the chair, try this exercise, designed especially for the covert yogi.

Drop a pen on the floor. Tuck your pelvis under (you do this by pulling your belly-button in), extend the arm which is on the opposite side to where the pen is and swing it around and to the ground to pick up the pen. keep your spine straight all the while. Repeat for the other side.

While you’re down there, check for lost coins…Ooooooooom.

Here’s a sign of the times. I spotted this question from an employer in the PageUp People forum.

We are considering using Hippo.com as an advertising medium to attract candidates for our call centre. (along with other mediums).

Has anyone had any experience with them, if so would appreciate your feedback?

It got me thinking. A little flush of excitement rushed to my cheeks as I considered how intrinsic the internet is now to the way we communicate.

Of course, folks have always chatted to one another about their satisfaction or otherwise with products and services they’ve used. But I can’t recall a time in the history of humanity when we’ve chatted to a reader or listener who is unknown to us. Not only that, we are then prepared to take the advice of that unknown entity and, presumably, act on it.

Prior to sources of information such as Hippo, a person interested in their service would have had to ask someone they knew had used the service, or they would have had to read some form of advertising propaganda published by the company.

Of course this form of “word-of-mouth” raises all sorts of questions about the reliability of respondents. They may have agendas around promoting the service, or not promoting it to keep it for themselves. None the less, it is interesting that we are willing to disregard these pitfalls in favor of gathering info.

Anyways. Enough philosophising. For those of you unfamiliar with Hippo, I thought I’d provide you with a few facts.
A quick check on the site shows:

- close to 200 jobs nationally.

- a focus on part-time/casual jobs aimed at young people .

- a large % of jobs advertised are for the hospitality industry.

- ranked number 56th on the latest Hitwise Australia rankings with 0.18% market share. (Seek ranked 1st and has 26.25%).

- $90 per job. (Seek $180+GST)

CareerOne has struck a deal with eBay Australia to power eBay jobs. This should prove to be a worthwhile partnership for the folks at CareerOne, who’ll get credit from eBay’s 5.3million monthly visitors.

They need all the help they can get. The latest Hitwise Australia market share rankings shows CareerOne at 7.59% - neck and neck for second spot with MyCareer who are on 7.92%.

Call me belligerent. But I love a good scrap.