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RecruitPress Review (Plus Installation Guide)

Earlier this week, a job board solution called RecruitPress caught my attention. To see just what the product offers I thought I’d take it for a spin, you can read the review at RecrutingPress Review.

In addition, I thought several of the people who use this site might be…

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Added by Julian Stopps on December 14, 2007 at 12:39pm — No Comments

UK Job Advertising Volumes Dip In November

The born Job Advertising Index dipped by 4 points in November, signalling the start of an anticipated seasonal slowdown.

The…

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Added by Julian Stopps on December 10, 2007 at 3:11pm — No Comments

Podcast 37: Interviewing By Video

The latest born podcast covering the week's online recruitment news is available.

On the show this week: Wipro adopts video interviews, CareerBuilder soars at the…

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Added by Julian Stopps on December 10, 2007 at 2:36pm — No Comments

The Death Of The Online Job Application (As We Know It)

The online application, as we know it, is dead. It has reached the limits of its relatively short lifespan and is ready to be condemned to its grave.

Disagree? Join me on a journey through the life and times of the online job application and see if I can convince you. < continue reading >…

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Added by Julian Stopps on December 6, 2007 at 4:32am — No Comments

Podcast 36: TMP Says Work With Me

The latest born digital recruitment podcast is out and we've got a host of stories for you from the UK, Europe and beyond.

In this week's show: TMP launches a Facebook application, CV Market gets acquired and recruitment in Luxembourg goes virtual.

Listen now to the…

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Added by Julian Stopps on December 3, 2007 at 4:18pm — No Comments

Where Next For Online Recruitment Videos?

Online video content is exploding, from clips on YouTube to video podcasts on iTunes, it seems like almost overnight the web has enabled broadcasters to reach audiences like never before.

Recruitment videos have already started to make their way onto the web, corporate recruiters are taking advantage of the medium, from tech companies like…

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Added by Julian Stopps on November 28, 2007 at 2:36pm — No Comments

Podcast 35: Recruitment Xpertize

The latest born podcast is out, bringing you news and information from the world of digital recruiting.

On this week's show, our review of Xpertize's new web site, Monster's second security…

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Added by Julian Stopps on November 26, 2007 at 4:11pm — No Comments

The Mobile Internet – Job Board Analysis

This week, we thought we’d do some investigation into the functionality of existing mobile solutions offered by UK-based generalist job boards.

We selected four well known job boards as the focus of our investigations: Jobsite, Jobserve, Fish4Jobs and Monster UK. Their respective mobile offering can be found at …

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Added by Julian Stopps on November 21, 2007 at 5:34pm — No Comments

Podcast 34: A Zubka Cloud

The latest online recruitment podcast from born is now available.

On the show this week: Reed's freecruitment is not so free any…

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Added by Julian Stopps on November 19, 2007 at 3:40pm — No Comments

The Killer Application For The Mobile Job Seeker

Spurred on the hype surrounding the iphone’s UK launch over the weekend, we asked ourselves the question “what would be the one tool or ‘killer application’ that would revolutionise life for the mobile job seeker”. As it turns out, the answer is not as obvious as you might think....…

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Added by Julian Stopps on November 13, 2007 at 5:00pm — No Comments

Podcast 33: Appointing The Exec

The latest born internet recruiting podcast is available.

We've quite a selection of stories for you this week, including the Financial Times acquires Exec-Appointments, Broadbean sets European…

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Added by Julian Stopps on November 12, 2007 at 2:41pm — No Comments

Newspaper Based Generalist Job Sites Surge In October

Generalist job boards that are integrated into online newspaper portals enjoyed a strong ‘inventory growth’ during October, based on data from the born Job Advertising Index, a metric that monitors online job advertising volumes in the UK1.

Of the generalist job boards tracked by the index, three of the…

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Added by Julian Stopps on November 9, 2007 at 1:43pm — No Comments

Podcast 32: Recruit with a 'Double T'

The latest born podcast is now available, packed full of online recruitment news.

On the show this week, RecruiTT.com launches in the UK, The Sun newspaper gets a job board, Google goes OpenSocial, and the born Job Advertising Index for October.

All this news,…

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Added by Julian Stopps on November 5, 2007 at 2:46pm — No Comments

Everyone's An Online Recruitment Winner!

It’s officially award season and this year, like many others, there are a multitude of different types of awards up for grabs.

Next week marks the second annual RecruitRank Awards. There are ten different award categories, including Best Understanding of Candidate…

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Added by Julian Stopps on November 5, 2007 at 10:56am — No Comments

Aggregator Analysis – Round 1: Expired Jobs

Expired Aggregators or vertical search engines have truly arrived in the UK job market in the last six months. They offer the job seeker a single location for their entire job searching needs, but how effective are they?

Aggregators are likely to become more and more important as the job board sector continues to devolve into niche sites and corporate career portals gain traction. With several different…

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Added by Julian Stopps on November 1, 2007 at 6:06am — No Comments

Podcast 31: National Online Recruitment Awards

The latest episode of the born online recruitment news podcast is available.

This week we are joined by Stephen O'Donnell from AllJobsUK for the announcement of the NORA winners.

Also in the show: It's all about CV databases for Trinity…

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Added by Julian Stopps on October 29, 2007 at 4:09pm — No Comments

TMP UK Virtual Careers Fair In Second Life

In this week's podcast I reported on the TMP UK Virtual Careers Fair, which was held last week. This post takes our coverage a little further, including a video tour < read more and view the video tour…

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Added by Julian Stopps on October 26, 2007 at 5:26am — No Comments

Is Facebook Worth It For Job Boards?

With all of the hype currently surrounding Facebook, I thought I’d see how things were stacking up for the job boards that have embraced the social network.

In the UK, Jobsite and JobTonic have taken the plunge, with CareerBuilder set to release a UK centric version soon. In the states, CareerBuilder, Jobster, HotJobs and Indeed have joined the Facebook party;…

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Added by Julian Stopps on October 24, 2007 at 12:55pm — No Comments

Recruiting In A Virtual World

The latest born podcast, Recruiting In A Virtual World, is now available.

This week we visit Second Life to attend TMP's first UK virtual careers fair. We're walked around TMP's UK Island by Phil Owers, TMP Deputy MD, and speak to some job seekers about their…

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Added by Julian Stopps on October 22, 2007 at 5:17pm — No Comments

5 Tips To Secure Your CV or Resume Database

Job board security, particularly resume or CV database security has been a hot topic of late, so we’ve put together our top 5 tips for those looking to secure their resume store and protect their job seekers.

It’s a rather lengthy post as…

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Added by Julian Stopps on October 16, 2007 at 6:17pm — No Comments

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