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Don’t feed the Monsters

by Mike on March 9, 2010

We are happy to announce that we have a different look and some exciting new features! Our developers have been hard at work to bring you even more ways to tap into the power of social media as a recruiting source! Josh Hundley (@oJshua) and John Reeves (@vectorjohn) have done a bang up job in a short amount of time.

Since our launch more than 1 year ago, there have been more than 16,000 jobs posted on JobShouts.com! We can’t thank you enough for all of your support during our beta phase and we hope that we can count on your continued support.  We have set the trend with regard to social recruiting and we are getting some GREAT feedback from all of you about the results you’re seeing!

Taking your feedback into account for development, we are now integrated with more social networking sites than ever! Our jobs are distributed to a wide network of listeners and targeted search traffic. With your help, word of mouth is spreading rapidly about the audience that we deliver. So it only makes sense that we put the power of social networking directly into YOUR hands and allow you to publish your job listings directly through your own social accounts, too!

In addition to an Employer Admin Panel, which will allow you to more easily manage the posting, editing and deleting of jobs – you’ll also be able to broadcast your job postings through JobShouts and your own social accounts all at once! Talk about word of mouth! We’ve even built in the ability to purchase job credits instantly through our PayPal payment portal. Don’t forget to look for promo codes! We’ve got a few of them floating around.

We want to thank all of you for using JobShouts.com – we owe our continued success to all of you! We’re continually working on site improvements based on customer use and feedback and we welcome yours. Do you have a JobShouts success story? We want to hear it!

Say no to high-priced job sites, Stop Feeding the monsters. Make the smart choice with JobShouts.com!

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JobShouts Promo Codes

by Mike on March 9, 2010

We have built a system that allows the budget conscious recruiter or human resource executive a way to save a few dollars on our job packages. These codes will change over time. So be sure to watch here for the official releases.

Code: Tweetdeal 33% Off any package.

Code: Facebook 33% Off any package.

The choice is yours as to which one you use. If you found us on twitter use the twitter code. Facebook? Use that one.

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Twitter Tips for Your Job Search

by Robin on February 22, 2010

If you’re new to Twitter, you might not know that there’s an etiquette to it. If you’re one of those that say, “I don’t get Twitter”, then pay attention. In this world of social online connections, Twitter is a crucial method of communication between job seekers and potential employers and vice versa.

That being said, I’m going to give you some Twitter Tips to guide you on your path to understanding Twitter and making it useful for you.

1. Sign up. This might sound basic but I want to be sure I’m specific so I don’t lose anyone. When you sign up, it’s important to choose an appropriate user name. You want one that identifies you but doesn’t use up too many characters. This is to allow people to “re-tweet” things you say without your username using up too many of those 140 characters. (I’ll explain re-tweet later on in this article)

2. Complete your profile. A complete profile will contain your name, a nice close-up picture, your location and a short bio and a link. This link can be whatever you want it to be – your LinkedIn profile, your blog, your facebook page – whatever. Just make sure that the link you include is an appropriate representation of yourself. Remember, employers use social media too. I recommend using city, state for your location. This makes it easier for locals to find you.

3. Set your preferences. Do not protect your tweets. This is pointless unless you’re only using Twitter to talk to your 5 personal friends in real life. Twitter is a social tool. It’s meant to be used as such. On the mobile tab, you can activate your Twitter account on your mobile phone. This is useful so that you can route direct messages, or messages from certain people to your cell phone as text messages. That way when you’re not on Twitter you can still get that important message. You can also set time preferences, such as “only receive updates between 7 am and 11 pm” or whatever time frame works for you.

4. Find people to follow. This is the key to engaging on Twitter. In order to have conversations with people, or find a way to network with people you don’t know, you have to start by following them. First, decide who you are interested in following. It might be local people, other people in your industry or line of work, others with common personal interests, etc. Of course, you can start by following people you know, too! Often, people we know are a great source for finding other interesting people to follow. Find out who your friends or colleagues are following and go from there.

5. Be patient. Rome wasn’t built in a day and neither was a Twitter network. Networking takes time and patience. It also takes involvement, so the less active you are the longer it will take. Keep that in mind. The more people you follow the more opportunities you will find to engage others and begin relationships. Quality of followers is more important than quantity.

6. Be aware! Like anywhere else on the internet, there are bots, scammers and viruses roaming on Twitter. If you get an odd direct message from someone asking you to click on a link – don’t do it. Reply and ask them what it’s about or if it’s legitimate. Sometimes these messages even seemingly come from those you know well – but don’t be fooled. Chances are, that person’s account has been compromised by a hacker. Err on the side of caution.

7. Don’t say anything on Twitter that you wouldn’t say out loud to a room full of people. Self explanatory, no?

8. Re-tweet when you can. A re-tweet is forwarding of someone’s tweet to your followers. If you like something someone has said, or like an article they tweeted, you can re-tweet it. This is a sign of endorsement by you and complimentary to the person you re-tweeted. This is often seen as a sign of endorsement of that tweeter and their content. If you want people to notice you, re-tweet them. It’s the highest form of flatter on Twitter and will get people looking at your profile – and hopefully, following you!

9. @ or Direct Message – If it’s something you wouldn’t say to someone in front of other people, then save it for a Direct Message. If the person you want to send the direct message to isn’t following you though, you won’t be able to send it to them. In such case, you can send an @ reply to that person asking them to follow you so that you can DM. @ replies are public, Direct Messages are not.

10. “What do I talk about?” This is the most asked question and it’s something I cannot answer for you. For each person the answer to this is different. However, consider what you’re using Twitter for. For most, you will want to present a professional image, but Twitter is also the place to let your personal side show. People are interested in who you are, not just what you do. Sharing things about yourself, your profession, industry related articles, funny things, technology news, etc. Just remember that what you tweet about will determine who finds you/follows you!

Do you have more tips to add to this list? Have you learned through your own trial and error what works? Please share!

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What is JobShouts Social Search? How Can it Help with Recruiting/Sourcing?

by Robin on February 16, 2010

Most people that are familiar with JobShouts know about our job postings and that we’re integrated with social media – but some may not know about or have yet to try our Social Search feature.

So, what is JobShouts Social Search? How can it help my recruiting/sourcing process?

If you’re an employer or recruiter who regularly uses resume databases to source your candidates, pay attention.

Social Search was developed from a sourcing technique that I personally used very successfully in my days as a recruiter. I specialized in recruiting a lot of hard to find candidates and clients were often amazed at my pinpointed accuracy. My secret? Social media, networking sites and search engines. I used a variety of sites to source from where I could make real connections with people based on a specific opportunity uniquely matched to them. Some might call this cold call sourcing or passive candidate sourcing. This method for me was very successful – so successful in fact, that I was able to stop relying upon resume databases full of outdated content.

The only trouble with this method was, it was very time consuming. Going to each site, figuring out what search criteria worked best, sifting through results for good quality, etc. Each site search could take from 5 minutes to 2 hours depending on the number of results that I got.

The premise behind Social Search was to streamline this process. Social Search allows you to search up to 8 different sites all at one time: LinkedIn, MySpace, Spoke, ZoomInfo, VisualCV, Twitter, Facebook AND – the best part of Social Search – the resume search feature. Social Search finds “hidden” resumes of potential candidates wherever they might be posted publicly, such as on their webpage or blog. Best of all, the results are sorted and labeled according to the network on which they were located.

Here’s an example. Using Social Search, I searched for “business analyst” in Miami:

You can see it pulled up a number of profiles on various sites; from there you can click on a profile to see if it’s a match.

So now let’s say you’ve located a great potential candidate on MySpace (“Suga Cane” listed above) but you don’t know her real name or how to reach her. Well, you can message her through MySpace and hope she responds OR, you can use the information you find on her MySpace profile to help locate her real identity.

This is what we know from her MySpace profile:

So now we know who she currently works for. Using “Gemaire” and “Inventory Control Analyst”  I searched LinkedIn and found out that her name is Marisa Howell. Now, she’s a viable and potential candidate! Connect with her through a shared group on LinkedIn or use her name to search for contact information. It’s as simple as that.

Let’s face it – in the world of social media and online networking  – far more people are keeping up with their social profiles more often than their resumes. Using this search will net specifically targeted candidates through publicly available information and eliminate the need for using a resume database. Recruit smarter, deliver better results to your clients and stop wading through the same candidate pool as everyone else.

Questions? I’m all ears. :)

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How well does JobShouts work? Case Studies

by Mike on February 15, 2010

Have you wondered how effective JobShouts is, or could be for you? Perhaps you have already heard from others but want to hear some statistics and details to help sway your decision.

JobShouts wants to share some figures about our performance.

Thanks to some great analytic tracking from Indeed, we are able show how well we stack up against other job boards.

We average 110 job views per listing. Indeed sends us about %35 of our traffic.  As of this date we are averaging 5.3 very targeted responses per listing.

This is some pretty strong competition for the big bloated job boards. Take a look at what are our customers saying…

“I’m in talent acquisition with a national firm. I was able to utilize JobShouts and the platform enabled me to tap into some pockets of candidates that the big boards weren’t hitting. Moreover, to be able to show my posting as a Twitter post on a high volume Twitter user with virtually no effort made me look (really) good.”

“Over an 8 week span we had nearly 50 applicants apply to our technical positions as well as a few of our management positions. A good percentage of those that applied (60-65%) qualified for phone interviews.”

“I appreciated the ability to directly communicate with the candidate via email. That aspect enabled me to move highly qualified candidate through our processes more efficiently.”

You just simply cannot get better testimonials from your customers. We thank each and everyone of them for helping us come this far in such a short time span.

Make sure you watch for our promo codes. We know everyone likes to save $$$! Thanks for your continued support of JobShouts.com. The board built FOR recruiters BY recruiters!

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