When is the Best Time to Post Jobs Online? What Experts Recommend …
For online recruitment and the use of job boards, many recruiters rely on the response from their job ads in order to make good placements.
But as many candidates now have options of job boards as well as jobs to apply for, without any more time, it is ideal to determine what time is best for recruiters to post jobs online.
Conventional thinking has it that jobs should be published on Fridays so that candidates can view the jobs over the weekend and apply.
However, recent reports from online recruitment sites shows that the time when more applications are done online are Mondays and Tuesdays, especially when candidates come back home and remember how crap their current jobs are.
According to Dan at Broadbean,
the best time for applications builds up through Monday to a peak at Tuesday lunch time.
However, for some jobsites, if you post jobs on a Monday, the chances are higher that your jobs will be at the top as the most recent and thus get more clicks and attract more applications.
Many recruitment agencies and recruiters are set in their ways, but it will be worth making changes in order to get the best out of your online recruitment advertising.
Careers in Recruitment or Recruitment Careers - Which Do Recruiters Use More?
Online recruitment sites - recruitmentcareers.co.uk and careersinrecruitment.com are the 1st and 2nd results in google.co.uk’s searches for ‘recruitment jobs‘ and ‘recruitment careers‘.
How do they take advantage of these positions and which is best used by recruiters?
A look at the sites itself shows a huge difference in their respective appeals.
Recruitmentcareers.co.uk has a rather plain feel, more of like something a desperate designer created overnight. Using archive.org, I was able to see how the site looked like in the past and in my opinion that was far better than its present design.
Its alexa ranking is pegged at 1,478,325 - meaning that a lot of activities is not happening on the site. Again, alexa rankings should be taking with a pinch of salt.
Careersinrecruitment.com - which comes 2nd in the search results has a nicer layout and better colours (my favourites, blue and orange) and the navigation is superb.
It has the Top 10 Live jobs which gives candidates the ease to click and find recruitment jobs.
Careersinrecruitment.com is also a member of the broadbean network and has alexa ranking of 889,895, which is decent enough for a niche jobsite.
Common sense states that the later gets a better share of recruitment advertising for recruitment jobs. Which do recruiters use more?
Recruitment Blogging - 2 Days Later and No. 2 on Google for ‘Recruitment Blogging’
Just a quick look at google.co.uk for the search phrase of this blog, recruitment blogging and behold, it has indexed 2 days after launch on the number 2 position.
I am pleased with this and even if it will rank better in more keywords in the future based on some ongoing SEO work on the site, it goes to further show why recruitment companies must invest in recruitment SEO to be at the top of their games.
On the funny side, you could see: Did you mean: recruitment billing on the google results page.
No, google, I meant recruitment blogging. I am sure your algorithms will get used to ‘recruitment blogging‘ soon.
One thing this blog will try and focus on in the foreseable future will be recruitment seo and how online recruitment can assist recuiters find the right candidates, fill their roles and yes, be big recruitment billers.
Professional networking site LinkedIn valued at $1 billion; Plans European Expansions
Professional networking site LinkedIn has been valued at $1bn after clinching new funding from an array of investors including Bain Capital.
In its fourth and largest round of funding since it was founded five years ago, the website secured $53m and plans to use the money to bolster its presence in Europe.
According to the Telegraph, LinkedIn, which established a London base in January, has around 1.5m members in the UK - its largest market in Europe.
The website currently has a team of 8 at its UK headquarters in Marylebone, with plans to attract more than 20 staff by the end of the year. LinkedIn’s European managing director Kevin Eyres said: “Europe is an integral part of LinkedIn’s growth strategy.
The company’s current revenue streams include advertising, subscriptions, job listings and corporate hiring services, and LinkedIn said it is in the process of launching “several new lines of business.”
Linkedin has proved to be of great resource to recruiters who find qualified candidates on the site and network online with colleagues and business contacts.
A Good Example of a Recruitment blog is the PWCPeopleBlog - Or is it?
I read this post on Onrec, with the title “Go on then, start a recruitment blog” and I wondered what the writer had in mind when they said:
A good example of a recruitment blog is the PWCPeopleBlog http://pwc.blogs.com/pwcpeople
I have italized the expression: A good example of a recruitment blog is the PWCPeopleBlog.
I have seen quite a few very interesting recruitment blogs which offer excellent posts on recruitment and how the companies or their clients go about with hiring.
A few vital statistics for the supposedly ‘PwC recruitment blog’:
1. 5 posts in 2008 by just one staff, Paula, who happens to be a Senior Manager
2. non-recruitment related blog posts; Paula ranting about her personal life etc
Hello Onrec, PwC blogs is nothing near a recruitment blog. Thanks but try again!