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cxr: job boards ‘will diminish in future’

Tuesday, March 3, 2009

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By Joel Cheesman - Gerry Crispin and Mark Mehler of CareerXRoads have produced their 8th Annual Source of Hire Study. It’s a worthwhile read that gives insight into the activities and mindsets of recruiters. Key findings range from a desire to reduce hires (and associated costs) attributed to third-party recruiters, newspapers and job boards, while increasing tactics connected to social networks and search engine marketing to how important referrals are to recruiting. Of job boards, the executive summary said, “We believe [job boards as a] source of hire has indeed peaked and predict it will diminish in the future.”

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sem, social networking highlighted in new studies

Wednesday, February 27, 2008

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Classified Intelligence has recently published “Recruitment Advertising: Moving in New Directions.” The report was based on a fall 2007 survey of 177 recruiters conducted in conjunction with ERE Media Inc., an online recruitment community. In a nutshell, the survey says recruiters are gravitating toward networking sites (both social and business) and employee referral programs. Print is [...]

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