Messge from CEO of Recruit.net Maneck Mohan to Singapore Bloggers – itsReal

Messge from CEO of Recruit.net Maneck Mohan to Singapore Bloggers

At Midnight tonight our Recruit.net Creative Feedback Challenge closes….

Debate: Job Search Engines: Recruit.net and SimplyHired on AltSearchEngines

Every Tuesday on AltSearchEngines we invite two search engines to discuss a topic that they are experts about.  Tonight we are very pleased to hear from Maneck Mohan of Recruit.net and Lucas Mast of SimplyHired.  I asked them a few questions about Jobs.

1)  It looks to me as though most, if not all, Job Search engines are racing to provide the greatest number of job openings “on the planet.”  Is that the real name of the game?  the site which links to the most millions of job listings “wins?”

The number of jobs is important, but from our perspective the ultimate objective is not solely a vast quantity of jobs but rather in delivering a good user experience and thereby ensuring your visitors keep coming back.

Some of the factors that go into this include:

– Easy to use filters that can break down millions of jobs by company name, date of posting, category, city, etc.

– “De-Duplication” which is what we call our process of ensuring that jobs are not repeated, cross posted and duplicated across our search results.

– Authentication – which involves ensuring that the jobs are real, that the posting source is credible and not just “job spam” which is becoming more frequent with the global proliferation of free classified sites..

So ultimately it’s about the quality of jobs, speed, and relevancy (and not just the number of jobs!)

 For Simply Hired, it is about bringing the greatest number of jobs to those who come to our site (www.simplyhired.com) or sites that we power, including MySpace Jobs, Vault, job search on LinkedIn, and more than 2,500 other blogs and websites.  It is incredibly important that we search every place imaginable to bring our users all available jobs, whether you are looking for a job as an accountant in Los Angeles or as a tattoo artist in Topeka.  If we can bring job seekers relevant content that they will not find elsewhere in one place, we would consider that a “win”.

2) Helping job seekers find job openings is one thing, helping employers find good candidates is another. What are your plans for the latter?

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IT Recruiting in Web 2.0 & Virtual Worlds – brought to you by: Recruit.net

Companies such as HP that venture deeper into the world of Web 2.0 technologies to find new hires may find themselves disappointed, at least initially. Despite the low turnout the company’s Second Life recruitment trial balloon yielded, however, HP’s Betty Smith is not deterred. She says she sees a lot of potential for using Second Life for recruiting.

In mid-May, Hewlett-Packard (NYSE: HPQ) participated in a virtual job fair using Second Life tools from Linden Lab in San Francisco. HP had been invited by one of its external recruiters, TMP Worldwide Advertising & Communications in New York. During the virtual event, recruiters and job applicants alike created avatars, or personas to represent themselves in the virtual world.

Standing Out

HP’s willingness to step into the Web 2.0 world for recruiting differentiates the company. In Computerworld‘s latest Vital Signs survey, none of the 233 IT professionals responding reported using Second Life for recruiting.

A scant 4 percent said they used blogs or social networking sites like Facebook to engage potential IT job candidates. Only 15 percent reported using professional networking sites such as LinkedIn. Moreover, 52 percent of the respondents said they don’t use any Web 2.0 tools for recruiting.

It seems that most IT organizations are missing out on a huge opportunity to connect — particularly with the talented twentysomethings who inhabit the virtual world. These Gen Yers are “tribal” and accustomed to the “very collaborative relationships” that Web 2.0 tools enable, says Tom Casey, senior vice president and workforce transformation leader at Kingwood, Texas-based consultancy BSG Concours.

By Thomas Hoffman

Computerworld

Read More at TechNewsWorld

Recruit.net Wins Red Herring Asia 100 Award

 

 

Fastest growing job-search engine clinches top award for Asian technology companies

– Recruit.net the leading job search engine for Asia Pacific has been named a winner of the Red Herring Asia 100 award for 2007.

Red Herring 100 Asia is an exclusive annual event honoring 100 cutting-edge private technology companies from across the Asia-Pacific region. The event brings together an elite roster of entrepreneurial and global venture investment firms to showcase excellence in innovation.

“We are honored to be winners of this prestigious award for 2007, and to join the impressive roster of ground breaking companies that have won this accolade in the past.” Said Maneck Mohan, Founder & CEO of Recruit.net

Virtual Recruit – You Maybe HUNTED

weekend Today ran quite an extensive story, The HIP side of talent Search which interesting suggested that we are now the HUNTED not the HUNTERS in recruitment… recruitment firms and HR departments are finding the value of the likes of facebook, LinkedIn and even Second Life to HUNT out people that might fit their organization. The idea makes perfect sense as long as people within these online communities are honest..but be cautioned don’t be too open in your virtual lives, something undesirable could be lurking in your past which may appear harmless to you but could send you to the virtual reject pile – itsReal

For those that still prefer to be Hunter not the HUNTED, I found a new specialist jobs and careers recruitment site for Singapore called BestJobs.sg it currently has almost 50,000 jobs in its search engine which is powered by recruit.net – Happy Hunting