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Company: Recruitment Directory

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Website: http://www.recruitmentdirectory.com.au

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Dear Santa. All I want for Christmas are some Team Leaders

It's that time of the year again where recruiters try to come up with the most creative, witty and funny job advert titles. This week, the award goes to The Warehouse in New Zealand with "Dear Santa. All I want for Christmas are some Team Leaders, please."

Runners up...

* Sales and Support Specialist Get your new job wrapped up for Christmas!

* Christmas Is Coming...Get Temping Now!!

* A NEW JOB… Continue

Posted on December 3, 2009 at 6:54pm

Deloitte NZ Facebook profile - Live and Interactive with Graduates

Over the past few months, I have been watching Deloitte New Zealand build a structured (and very strategic) presence on Facebook. Today, they have released the next piece of the puzzle. Deloitte NZ will be hosting a live-streaming video/Facebook chat session for potential Graduates.

It's something different and certinally an idea that will be picked up by other graduate… Continue

Posted on December 1, 2009 at 10:13pm

Integrating the LinkedIn API with your Job Board/Recruitment database

Last week, I wrote a blog post about how LinkedIn has released a public API for developers to build 3rd party applications using the database. Today, I thought I would show you how easy it was to create a application utilising the LinkedIn API. I want you to forget that LinkedIn is a social networking site, and think about it as a massive information database. A database you can now… Continue

Posted on December 1, 2009 at 7:01am

Cut the fat. Application Form Filename Structure

Making the candidate conform to your recruitment systems filename structure is stupid. Technology is used to improve the application process - not complicate it.

Earlier this week I had a call from an Employer who just implemented a new online recruitment system... "Thomas what do you think of our new recruitment system" [silence] "great isn't it".

Hello? We are nearly in 2010. This should not be happening.

Original blog post… Continue

Posted on November 26, 2009 at 9:30am

No one wants to follow your Recruitment Agency on Twitter

I had an interesting call from a Recruiter today. He was complaining about the fact that no one wants to follow his Recruitment Agency on Twitter. I spent some time talking about the ways you can use Twitter in the Recruitment process. But he didn't care.

We talked about creating a social recruiting strategy to interact with the users. He didn't care.

This is not an unusual situation I find myself in. Nearly all Recruiters I talk with about using some type of social media… Continue

Posted on October 8, 2009 at 7:38am — 8 Comments

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At 5:29am on September 15, 2008, Trail2hire said…: HI,
We have actually launched a new ONLINE RECRUITMENT PLATFORM / Job portal in INDIA www.trail2hire.com recently.

We are looking for people who are experienced in the same field and who can partner with us in different states. They should have a good experience as a recruiting agency and also have some good clients with a good rapport with them.For more details on trail2hire you can visit our website.

Thanks
Bye