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Skillect.com take a peek at the IT job market
Posted by Joanne Brent on 26 May 2009 | Tagged as: Facts & Figures, HR Strategy, Social Media
A few of Skillect.com’s observations on the job market…
The recession is definitely having an effect on the IT job market and demand for particular kinds of skills, whether you work as a contractor or as a permie. For me the biggest impact so far is the fall in IT Contractor rates. In the last two roles I have had, I have had to take a 10% cut in pay! Companies in various sectors have taken this step – BT, Barclays, RBS, Fujitsu, are just a few of the big names. Companies will always look to apply cost cutting measures to contractors first – either by cutting rates, or terminating contracts early. At the same time, permies are not altogether immune as their salaries are frozen or bonuses withdrawn.
Google Launch new “Unemployment” Public Data Graph Service.
Posted by Ben Muir on 30 Apr 2009 | Tagged as: Direct recruitment strategies, Employer Branding, Facts & Figures, HR Strategy, Social Media
Interactive & informative! The guys’ n gals at Google have done it again. With billions of people out there worrying about the global employment hick-up, it’s the wiz-kids at Google who have yet again launched another hugely useful service for us.
Although only a trial, whilst also only using the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics as the data source, Google has produced and interactive graph where you can quickly view unemployment figures from 1990 – date, and compare trends from US Stats and Counties.
Unemployment worst since 1997.
Posted by Ben Muir on 24 Apr 2009 | Tagged as: Direct recruitment strategies, Employer Branding, Facts & Figures, HR Strategy, Social Media
It’s been a bit of a week for the UK government, there was a particularly awkward Alistair Darling budget presentation plus unemployment figures were published showing that it has soared to its highest level since Labour came to power.
In the 3 months to February the number of people looking for work jumped by 177,000 and broke the 2.1 million mark. In direct relation the number of people claiming jobseekers allowance increased for the 13th month in a row, up by 73,700 bringing the total number of people claiming the allowance to reach 1.46million, the highest since September 1997.
Job board scammers and internet fraudsters - beware!
Posted by Joanne Brent on 17 Apr 2009 | Tagged as: Employer Branding, Facts & Figures, HR Strategy, Social Media
Online scamming is as abundant as ever - and though some of you may be well versed in dodging such scams as easily as you type or perform searches in google - there is a margin of the public so fresh to browsing online (and as desperate for a lifeline as they are fresh) who are being taken for a ride by criminals lurking on career sites and job boards.
Be aware - you can’t package Hr SEO!
Posted by Ben Muir on 23 Feb 2009 | Tagged as: Direct recruitment strategies, Employer Branding, Facts & Figures, HR Strategy
WOORRP!! .. WOORRP!! .. WARNING .. WARNING.!!
You can’t package Hr SEO
Every employer and every jobseeker is different. No matter what someone may tell you, you CANNOT PACKAGE Hr SEO.
Ok a bit dramatic but the fact remains the same. You can’t package Hr SEO. Why not? Well for the simple reason that your business is unique. Yes there are specific techniques that have to be standard to ensure your job or corporate career site is “Google friendly” - however any specialist Hr SEO professional should be able to show you this.
Google secure over 90% of UK search volume!
Posted by Ben Muir on 20 Feb 2009 | Tagged as: Direct recruitment strategies, Facts & Figures, HR Strategy
Google secure over 90% of UK search volume!
Whenever I talk to a company looking to utilise HR SEO strategies to attract talent and secure online employer brand, the very first thing I say is that in order to design a best practice strategy, you need to know who the best search engines are. A great place for us all to start then is with Hitwise, the leading online competitive intelligence service.
In the most recent Hitwise report (showing search engines for the industry “All Categories”, ranked by “Volume of Searches” for the 4 weeks ending 14/02/2009) Google.co.uk and Google.com collectively secured some 90.27%!