HR SEO : Online Candidate Attraction Specialists

Managing your time effectively can play a big role in your job search success. Developing good time management methods can be a big challenge for job seekers. When you lose your job, you suddenly lose a lot of the structure that was once a part of your day. It will be up to you to create that structure to ensure that you will reach your job search goals.

Tips on Time Management for Job Seekers

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Erik Qualman is releasing a new book called Socialnomics later this month and it’s already creating a buzz worldwide. There is no hotter topic in business today than how to leverage social media to build communities around brands and then leverage them into revenue that will make even the most capitalistic minded satisfied.

The thinking is that as we build out our online personas and migrate toward certain online groups centered around our interests, our likes, dislikes, opinions and friends. Products and services will find their way to us rather than we having to go out to find them. It changes the entire nature of advertising and how companies strive to create brand awareness and loyalty.

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We all know how bad the recruitment situation is around the world for most industries badly affected by economic situations. A recent online job site poll conducted by Bayt.com showed the only recruitment sector showing a markable increase this year was online job advertising. Around 16 per cent of the Middle East’s employers said they are hiring more staff than last year and most are advertising primarily online.

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I read between 50 to 100 CVs per day in my job, so I thought I would offer some advice to those job seekers out there who are having trouble getting interviews for the roles to which they feel they are suited. I am not astounded any more because I see the same mistakes repeated daily, but when I first started in the recruitment business I was flabbergasted that one of the most important documents in a person’s life was afforded such little care and attention. The CVs or resumes that I receive on a daily basis are riddled with spelling mistakes, poor grammar or are incomprehensible.Here are a few of my favourite spelling mistakes.

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The important thing to remember about the Internet is that it is an open medium where people can, and do, discuss things openly. If you embrace the opportunities it brings you then your recruitment campaign can take on a life of its own, reaching people from all walks of life who would have otherwise not discovered your advert. This is even more so applicable as an employer, employer branding and marketing is the number one key to a successful recruitment campaign. This is why it’s equally important to trust only industry leaders when assigning your budget to online HR-SEO projects!

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With the advent of the Internet the world has advanced and improved in many ways, and the recruitment world is no different. You can now reach a wider range of candidates than ever and in increasingly inventive ways. Looking at online advertising against the various other methods of generating candidates shows some clear advantages.

• Newspaper advertising (local press, national press)
- Advantages: Mass audiences, targeting possible, advert size flexibility
- Disadvantages: High Advertisement placement costs, additional design and admin resources, short active window, targeting often broad, tracking difficult

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