SmartRecruiters is a great company and Jerome is a great person to follow.  Their latest campaign is looking to help small businesses create jobs.  I told Jerome that we would be happy to post this information for them.

From Jerome Ternynck - Founder and CEO of SmartRecruiters:

The nation's unemployment crisis can only be resolved if businesses, small ones in particular, start to create more jobs. In line with our mission to eradicate unemployment, SmartRecruiters is announcing today the Got Jobs? http://www.smartrecruiters.com/gotjobs  initiative. This campaign celebrates the heroes of our economy, the job creators, and encourages small businesses to create jobs. Our goal is to create 1 million jobs. As you can imagine, we're going to need some help...  

Here are 5 things you can do:

1. Tweet - The campaign hashtag is #GotJobs https://twitter.com/#!/search/%23gotjobs  [list of suggested tweets below]
2. Share - Share http://goo.gl/Skn4X  the Got Jobs page on Facebook
3. Blog about the campaign and job creation from small businesses [fact sheet below]
4. Brag - If you have yourself created a job this year, then grab a badge http://goo.gl/63Yvs  and brag about it
5. Advertise - Put a banner/button on your blog and/or get your own personalized Got Jobs page (contact me)

Thank you in advance for your support.

It's time to put America back to work. Time to hire.

#GotJobs Tweets:

The #GotJobs campaign aims to create 1 million jobs http://goo.gl/Br1OS 

Time to put America Back to Work. Time to Hire #GotJobs ? http://goo.gl/Br1OS

Be a Hero, Create a Job http://goo.gl/Br1OS #GotJobs

I Hired. How About You? #GotJobs? http://goo.gl/Br1OS

Small Businesses across America join forces to end unemployment #GotJobs? http://goo.gl/Br1OS

SmartRecruiters announces #GotJobs campaign to create 1 million jobs for America http://goo.gl/Br1OS

Some Stats on Why Recovery Depends on Small Business and why they need help:

Over half the Population is employed by Small businesses (under 500 employees);

and Small businesses have generated 65% of net new jobs over the last 17 years (U.S. Small Business Administration http://web.sba.gov/faqs/faqIndexAll.cfm?areaid=24/?cr1=influenceremail

The overall time to hire is estimated at 96 days (Luxottica Group http://blogs.wsj.com/digits/2012/04/16/moneyball-and-the-hr-departm... )

Hiring for a government job takes an average of 105 days!  (Performance.gov http://hr.performance.gov/initiative/hire-best/agency/state/?cr1=in...

If all 3.5 million open jobs would be filled today, Unemployment rate would decline by over 3% (Clinton Global Initiative http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2011/06/30/cgi-s-surprising-s... )

Small firms pay a median of $3,665 in recruiting cost per hire, compared with $1,949 per hire at companies employing 10,000 employees or more (Bersin & Associates http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052970203764804577056603280... )

Best,

Jerome

SmartRecruitersJerome Ternynck  |  Founder & CEO Cell: + 1 (415) 315 9557 | @jerometernynck www.smartrecruiters.com