tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-42596272567435954762012-02-16T12:18:01.284ZMr EasyWebnoreply@blogger.comBlogger261100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4259627256743595476.post-32667625786287066682010-06-01T14:25:00.004+01:002010-06-01T14:41:08.202+01:00

Last Wednesday I was invited to co-present at the Social Recruitment Workshop in London that was arranged by Peter Gold from Hirestrategies. It was the first event of this scale that Peter had put on, as he normally focuses on running events with one main speaker (himself). Co-ordinating 20-25 so called Online Recruitment experts was never going to be easy but the day went pretty much to schedule

Adrian McDonaghhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00196283054702725164noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4259627256743595476.post-27932430692651701752010-05-15T16:43:00.001+01:002010-05-17T10:04:59.737+01:00

On May 25th we will be launching our Career Site product with a free days training for interested parties. We plan to build careers sites that are closely integrated with Social Media and able to distribute our client's vacancies automatically to Twitter and Facebook as well as Job Board Aggregators such as Indeed and Trovit. The aim being to distribute vacancies onto as many relevant mediums as

Mr EasyWebnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4259627256743595476.post-5504955880387697382010-05-14T16:25:00.002+01:002010-05-14T16:28:15.193+01:00

This is the second in a series of posts about distributing your vacancies throughout Linkedin. The final post in this series will be tomorrow when I will show you how to have your vacancies automatically feed into your Linkedin Profile. If you are interested in this subject matter, I run a free weekly webinar on recruiting via Linkedin. When you join Linkedin you have the option to search for

Mr EasyWebnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4259627256743595476.post-10438601720201499882010-05-13T17:22:00.003+01:002010-05-13T17:29:52.554+01:00

We put a lot of effort into searching the millions of profiles found on linkedin when we're recruiting for those more demanding roles. It's a topic I've spoken about on this blog before and cover in depth in my Linkedin Training Webinars, but what about the other side of the coin? What can be done to help candidates searching Linkedin for job opportunities to find your vacancy? This week I'm

Mr EasyWebnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4259627256743595476.post-90687942532737972642010-04-30T16:42:00.010+01:002010-04-30T17:02:51.870+01:00

We've blogged previously about the importance of choosing the right job title for your advert, and nobody takes more care or researches this more thoroughly than our resource team at Easy Web. To give you a quick example, you might think that placing an advert for a customer advisor to work in a contact centre is perfectly sound, but by changing the title to Customer Service and referring to a

Mr EasyWebnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4259627256743595476.post-74806007947905746632010-04-30T13:43:00.006+01:002010-05-05T10:05:05.292+01:00

We're currently recruiting for a Learning and Development Officer for a company in the West Midlands, a position that raises some interesting issues when recruiting online, not because of the requirements of the position, but because of the title.If you were placing a local press advert then the exact phrasing of the title would be less of an issue, any permutation of L&D would likely be

Mr EasyWebnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4259627256743595476.post-75530074634126690912010-04-29T14:30:00.007+01:002010-04-29T14:38:44.970+01:00

Yesterday I blogged about some of the more "interesting" job titles people have referenced on their linkedin profiles.Some searching this morning showed me there are some people looking for Ninja’s to join their team. This appears to be an attempt by start-up web companies to make their vacancies more “sexy”. The search results below from a major job board aggregator show that these

Mr EasyWebnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4259627256743595476.post-32488175207374961072010-04-28T16:32:00.005+01:002010-04-29T12:23:07.214+01:00

Social networks can be funny old places, and while Linkedin's professional leanings clearly differentiate it from places like Bebo, Facebook and Myspace, it can also throw up some suprising (and often amusing) search results.While doing some research for my next round of Linkedin Training Webinars I came across a profile whose current position was "Office skivvy". Now, aside from wondering what

Mr EasyWebnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4259627256743595476.post-11376510854468730652010-04-23T13:19:00.004+01:002010-04-27T12:33:27.003+01:00

I have just finished reading an interesting article, based on a presentation at Facebook’s F8 conference, about how Facebook wants to make social connections as commonplace as hyperlinks. An understandable position for the world’s largest social network to take. But what is interesting is the method they've chosen. They are making it far easier for websites of all sizes to integrate the “like”

Adrian McDonaghhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00196283054702725164noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4259627256743595476.post-34015239130795714052010-01-29T17:22:00.003Z2010-01-29T17:55:35.015Z

Almost the end of the January and my first post of the year, oh dear. Got some ground to make up so expect to see some more posts soon. First I thought I would share Glassdoor with you. The site gives employees a free inside look at 70,000 firms. you can access anonymous reports by people who have (or at least claim to have) been interviewed or worked for these organisations.There reviews are

Adrian McDonaghhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00196283054702725164noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4259627256743595476.post-90002052090017018022009-11-24T08:36:00.008Z2009-11-25T09:43:50.824Z

I was speaking with The IT Job Board earlier this week and they highlighted to me that they do not have a job basket function on their website. This may seem a small issue, but it is a fairly radical departure from the norm. Most job boards know that many recruitment agencies and corporate recruiters struggle to record the origins of the hires they make. Many of them seem to end up judging job

Adrian McDonaghhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00196283054702725164noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4259627256743595476.post-45715651005611335182009-11-23T22:01:00.005Z2009-11-25T10:08:08.273Z

Our free online recruitment training sessions have just gone nationwide. As I look at our Eventbrite account we have 36 events taking place between now and March. Starting in Birmingham tomorrow.If you want to find out how to recruit for free via social networks like Linkedin and Facebook. Or maximise your return on investment when you post adverts to job boards. We run our half day sessions to

Adrian McDonaghhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00196283054702725164noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4259627256743595476.post-66539870050095528902009-11-23T21:37:00.008Z2009-11-25T10:29:38.263Z

Linkedin has just announced they are opening up their platform for developers to integrate their applications with Linkedin. This is the model that Twitter adopted from the very start and is probably the biggest single factor in explaining their extraordinary growth. So not unsurprising that the other big players in the social networking space have sat up and taken notice.Tweetdeck is one of the

Adrian McDonaghhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00196283054702725164noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4259627256743595476.post-37955554020515060952009-11-23T17:48:00.005Z2009-11-25T09:57:15.291Z

Linkedin has recently announced that they are rolling out their Recruiter platform to recruitment companies. Initially this product was only available to corporate recruiters. I have spoken to a number of corporate recruiters who have spent a reasonable amount of money on this product and in general their feedback has been very good. So I signed up for the first of the webinars demonstrating

Adrian McDonaghhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00196283054702725164noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4259627256743595476.post-72422903004566793312009-11-22T20:19:00.016Z2009-11-23T17:09:33.248Z

Google is always trying to make the internet easier for its users. For a while now they've been suggesting the search term you are looking for as you type it in. Now, I appreciate this is an automated service delivered by a piece of software. Google is not voicing its own opinions (even Google does not have enough lawyers to cover themselves from the lawsuits that would emerge from some of these!

Adrian McDonaghhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00196283054702725164noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4259627256743595476.post-12492810410279873772009-11-22T19:45:00.010Z2009-11-23T17:14:41.140Z

I started this blog with the aim of posting about internet recruitment related subjects. I would not normally make a posting about something unrelated, but I've just downloaded the cooliris app for firefox (after reading article about it on techcrunch). Now, I download a fair few firefox apps, and this is the best I have ever seen. It lets you slide easily through photos in a very cool slideshow

Adrian McDonaghhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00196283054702725164noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4259627256743595476.post-55264819234653681452009-11-06T09:11:00.010Z2009-11-06T12:21:44.929Z

I've just been reading a rather startling account of how many advertisements on Facebook are run by advertising networks simply looking to scam facebook users. The article is written by an insider who designed many of these scams, and shows a fairly lax approach to facebook policing this. You can read this article here. We've presented our online recruitment training sessions to almost 300 direct

Adrian McDonaghhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00196283054702725164noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4259627256743595476.post-24424632005868483282009-11-02T15:34:00.009Z2009-11-02T17:57:02.775Z

After a successful pilot of our online recruitment training sessions, we have decided to roll out a new series of events.You can see the schedule for these events here.The feedback from the candidates who attended the first series of sessions can be seen here. The aim of the sessions is to unlock some of the secrets of online recruitment. We openly show you how we use job boards, linkedin, CV

Adrian McDonaghhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00196283054702725164noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4259627256743595476.post-87346137821472188842009-10-29T16:13:00.012Z2009-10-30T07:47:45.741Z

As part of our next wave of Online Recruitment Training Workshops we're going to be releasing a series of videos showing some of the content we go over in the half day sessions. Here's a sneak preview in the form of Part 1 - Choosing The Right Job Title for Your Advert...

Mr EasyWebnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4259627256743595476.post-18480559499446183542009-10-28T18:21:00.014Z2009-11-03T12:34:08.285Z

Linkedin has over 50m members. I believe it’s the most powerful recruitment tool on the web. But, like many other recruiters I suspect, I do get a little frustrated with it sometimes. Unemployment numbers are up and this recession has left millions of people worldwide out of work. After 17 years of economic growth many professionals who were previously considered the “talent” of the market, have

Adrian McDonaghhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00196283054702725164noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4259627256743595476.post-85459025701323865642009-10-28T09:03:00.007Z2009-10-29T11:05:13.029Z

We've been nominated for an award for the service we deliver to candidates, so it’s easy for me to sit here and say how great we are (that was yesterday’s post). However, I am a little concerned with the candidate experience delivered by the rest of the flat fee recruitment industry. As you would expect, I am a huge fan of the flat fee recruitment model, I think it delivers real value for the

Adrian McDonaghhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00196283054702725164noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4259627256743595476.post-23134139186310355462009-10-28T08:55:00.006Z2009-10-28T18:19:32.076Z

It’s almost 4 years since the start of EasyWebRecruitment as a flat fee recruitment agency. When we set out our aims and objectives it was to surpass the service delivered to both candidates and clients whilst dramatically lowering their costs. We have seen lots of happy clients come back to us with positive feedback on our service but we have never tried to precisely measure the experience the

Adrian McDonaghhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00196283054702725164noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4259627256743595476.post-75690977370567696092009-07-30T20:53:00.006+01:002009-08-04T16:05:14.734+01:00

I have been completing some research recently into recruiting via Social Networking sites and I reached the conclusion that for most organisations, Social Networking mediums are definitely a secondary recruitment method…So what do I mean by secondary recruitment method? Why is there such media attention on these new recruitment methods?Why are organisations not able to utilise the full potential

Adrian McDonaghhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00196283054702725164noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4259627256743595476.post-10089559293315764122009-07-06T11:01:00.005+01:002009-07-06T11:23:50.409+01:00

Ok, first things first. I must confess, I’m a big fan of Linkedin. It allows my colleagues and I to search a network of over 2.2m UK profiles, which we do on a daily basis, and inevitably turns up a top class candidate or three.Much has been written on other blogs about how users can use Linkedin to promote themselves. The membership is largely made up of skilled professionals and executives,

Adrian McDonaghhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00196283054702725164noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4259627256743595476.post-43263607539806988042009-07-01T15:24:00.014+01:002009-07-01T16:37:14.409+01:00

Our busy part of the week tends to be a Friday afternoon. I suspect Friday morning is a good time for many of our clients to do weekly meetings and decisions get made on new vacancies that they need to recruit for. By the afternoon, we are normally in full swing turning their job descriptions into optimised advert copy for the job boards we use.Our clients may be keen to get these adverts live by

Adrian McDonaghhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00196283054702725164noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4259627256743595476.post-65574292797628065402009-06-26T15:34:00.003+01:002009-07-01T15:23:41.736+01:00

At the time I started EasyWebRecruitment in January 2006, there were a couple of other companies in the flat fee internet recruitment space. Looking at the service they provided I became convinced a company with a more pro-active approach could build upon their offerings and make it easier (hence the name) for companies to use a flat fee service. Initially, the service was focused on

Mr EasyWebnoreply@blogger.com0