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Thank you for your application

When was the last time you said ‘thank you’ to a candidate for applying for a job? When was the last time you acknowledged a candidate application?  You always do? OK, you are a good recruiter. But, I am sure you have, perhaps, a ‘friend’ who has let an application or two slip by without [...]

The Google Job Experiment

Picked this story up in the internet trade press. It’s an interesting one about one Alec Brownstein who ran a google ads campaign aimed at finding himself a new job. What’s unusual is what he did it.
He picked creative directors in his sector in New York whose names he knew, ran google ads sponsoring their [...]

Responding to candidates

In a previous post we spoke about how important it was to manage the candidate application process and in this post we are following up with the results of a recent online survey we ran on whatjobsite. We asked our users how quickly they acknowledged candidates applications.
28% of our users said that they were [...]