New Zealand jobseekers disapprove of social media vetting

Employers in New Zealand are using social media profile as part of the hiring process. Is this the way employers are hiring in the future?

http://www.humanresourcesonline.net/news/21246

Enjoy Events Business like working in China, HKG or Middle East – itsReal

Are you Looking for a new opportunity, interested in working in China, Hong Kong or the Middle East, maybe Info Salons has the opportunity you are seeking.

The Info Salons Group are looking for Senior Executives, preferably with Event Registration Services experience, to work in our international offices in China, Hong Kong or the Middle East.

contact:

Jo-Anne Kelleway

CEO

Info Salons Group

Also at: APLINK.Asia

Recruit.net strategy evolves targeting social media micromarkets

Recruit.net Powers Ping.sg Newly Introduced Job Search Function..

Recruit.net’s marketing strategy evolves targeting social media micromarkets with job channels powered by Recruit.net’s award winning technology platform..

Singapore, May 5th 2008, Recruit.net, an award winning tech company that operates a network of trilingual job search engines across Asia Pacific, has launched a new job search function at Ping.sg, Singapore’s leading blogging community site. With the new function, community members are able to search for ten of thousands of jobs through a single click at Ping.sg. The Recruit.net job channel allows for users to find tens of thousands of Singapore related jobs from hundreds of websites in a single search through Ping.sg: http://jobs.ping.sg/

Transforming NTUC Income Singapore – itsReal

A recent full page ad in a main local Singapore Newspaper – heralded the following Headline –

We can’t tell you what your job responsibilities will be, because we’re transforming just about everything…

It then went on to say – Interested in shaking things up? NTUC Income is transforming itself, so we’re aggressively recruiting the best and the brightest in People, Asset and Risk Management, Finance and Actuarial. Health and Medical, General Insurance, Customer Engagement and Technology at senior levels. We are Singapore’s largest social enterprise in pursuit pf commercial leadership, holding the trust of nearly 2 million people. But enough about us, we’d like to hear about you….

WOW – I know myself when doing recruiting it can be hard working out the job roles and responsibilities BUT with a company like NTUC Income and the desire to TRANSFORM (hmm Transformers 2 is coming) they do actually know what they are looking for – if you want to see the jobs on offer visit recruit.net singapore for details.

Congrats to NTUC Income’s Agency for creating engaging content to assist NTUC in its’ pursuit to transform via recruitment!

Jenelyn Estacio – Congrats you are the winner of the recruit.net Singapore LUCKY contest – itsReal

A BIG thank you to everyone from Singapore for entering the recruit.net lucky draw…

The deadline for entries was March 9, 2008.  The draw was performed on March 10, 2008…

The Singapore winner of a brand new 8GB iPod Nano is : Jenelyn Estacio *

Please stay tuned for our next contest coming soon – it is going to be just slightly more creative and engaging – prizes will be ?

* jenelyn we will contact you via email.

Recruit.net is Singapore’s largest job search engine with over 30,000 new job listings from thousands of top companies. Recruit.net – Job search starts here!

Revisited 2008: Singapore’s IT Show attracts 725,000 visitors and they SPENT – $53 MILLION – itsReal

Last years heading:  Singapore’s IT Show attracts 718,000 visitors and they SPENT – $48 MILLION – itSreal – WOW

This year per person the spend was appox $73.10 per person – no wonder there is no cover charge to go to the IT Show in Singapore and that there are 8087 technology related jobs on offer in Singapore right now.

This year I got to see my mate Melvin Koh on prime time TV – as well as hearing that the show had gone GREEN – can u imagine the paper needed to sustain 725,000 eager consumers, looking for computer, printers, phones and memory cards ?

Today’s mypaper picked up that in the 45 minutes they were stationed at city hall – no one was checked – when carrying their IT Show Singapore goodies home – so homeland Security for the first time came into the hugely successful IT SHOW in Singapore.

All that aside – well done to the organisers and see you next year !

recruit.net is the google of job search – millions of jobs – itsReal

A recent conversation with a well known Singapore blogger opened my eyes to a little known fact and that is, even though Recruit.net is well known for giving away a free iPhone, there still appears to be some confusion amongst many about what recruit.net really is about, and that the simplest way of explaining recruit.net is that it is the google of job search….

……Every day thousands of companies are posting new job openings on the internet.

How do you find them all? Do you have the time to search all the different web sites for that special job?

Recruit.net is an award winning job search engine that searches and discovers new job postings for you. You have free and instant access to millions of jobs from thousands of companies with one simple search.

Recruit.net search technology crawls the internet to find job listings from corporate web sites, job boards, recruitment agencies, newspapers, classifieds, associations and more.

Recruit.net does the work, so you don’t have to.

Millions of jobs, Thousands of companies, One search.

Recruit.net operates an international network of job search engines that covers Australia, China, India, Japan, Malaysia, New Zealand, Singapore and Hong Kong.

Join the Recruit.net group on facebook –

it is free an 8GB iPod Nano from Recruit.net – itsReal

Since introducing Recruit.net into Singapore, the traffic to the Singapore section of recruit.net has exploded, the job market is vibrant and many Singaporeans are finding their dream jobs – why, because when you search the extensive and always current  job opportunities  found on recruit.net you have the search power not found elsewhere, the google like approach to search but with the precision targeting only for jobs.

if you found that dream job, recruit.net want to hear from you and it could get you a free 8GB iPod Nano

Check out what you need to do to get LUCKY again ! Contest closes March 9th 2008

The Watch – TOP 10 virtual worlds in the news – Courtesy MVJ – itsReal

About MVJ…

The Metaverse Journal is a site devoted to bringing an Australian perspective to virtual worlds. Launched in November 2006, we believe that virtual worlds at the very least may bring a new approach to internet-based interaction, and we want to cover their evolution. Virtual worlds may provide some of society’s biggest opportunities and greatest challenges in coming years – it’s an area worth keeping informed about.

Lowell Cremorne – Editor in Chief

February, 2008

1. The Washington Post – Spies’ Battleground Turns Virtual. “U.S. intelligence officials are cautioning that popular Internet services that enable computer users to adopt cartoon-like personas in three-dimensional online spaces also are creating security vulnerabilities by opening novel ways for terrorists and criminals to move money, organize and conduct corporate espionage Ex-Spies-Corporate-Work Jan-08 ”.

2. CNN Money – Pointing The Way To New Web Worlds. “You can sling from one Web to another in business these days. The so-called Web 2.0 technologies that gave birth to consumer blogs, social networks and other ways to offer product advice are weaving their way into the corporate world”.

3. CNET – Teen virtual world goes Hollywood. “Habbo, a virtual world for teens, signed a deal with the William Morris Agency, one of Hollywood’s oldest and largest talent agencies. As part of the deal, WMA will promote its celebrity sports and entertainment clients within the digital world and help Habbo forge new promotional partnerships in Hollywood”.

4. ClickZ – MinyanLand Virtual World Aims to Teach Kids Finance. “Teaching kids financial responsibility can be fun and advertisers should come along for the ride, say the creators of MinyanLand, a virtual world for kids. Launched January 30, MinyanLand is the result of the National Council on Economic Education, financial infotainment company Minyanville and family site network Kaboose, coming together to try and educate children in grades three to six about the importance of financial responsibility and thrifty spending. Unlike several other virtual worlds targeting the kids market, including Disney’s Club Penguin, Minyanland does not require a subscription fee to participate, according to Kevin Wassong, president of Minyanville”.

5. ABC Science (Australia) – Bionic lens spies virtual world. “Engineers say they have combined a flexible contact lens with an imprinted electronic circuit and lights for the first time. The ‘bionic’ lens could give wearers a new look at the world by superimposing computerised images onto their natural view. Such virtual displays could be useful to drivers and pilots, who could have route, weather or vehicle status information overlaid onto their vision. Video game players could immerse themselves in a virtual world without restricting their range of motion”.

6. CNN – For online addicts, relationships float between real, virtual worlds. “Think of online video game addiction and what probably comes to mind is a socially awkward adolescent. But teens are not the only ones who get addicted. Consider Zach Elliott, who lives in the U.S. state of Wisconsin, is in his mid-40s, and plays Final Fantasy XI, an online role-playing game. About three years ago, he says, “there were people in my real life that sort of vanished into this game, and I followed them into it””.

7. FOX Business – Multiverse Unveils Virtual Times Square. “The Multiverse Network, Inc., the company building the leading network of 3D virtual worlds, today unveiled Virtual Times Square, a true-to-life digital recreation of one of the world’s most famous metropolitan environments”.

8. CIO.com – Companies Explore Virtual Worlds As Collaboration Tools. “For emergency responders working along Interstate 95, accidents aren’t a game; they’re a way of life (and death). So it seemed odd to a group of firefighters, cops and medics when researchers from the University of Maryland suggested it use a virtual world to collaborate on training for rollovers, multicar pileups and life-threatening injuries”.

9. TrainingZone.co.uk – View to a Kill: Training in Virtual Worlds. “Learning and training are likely to be the ‘killer application’ for computer-generated 3D worlds such as Second Life, delegates heard at the Learning Technologies event in London last week. Capgemini consultant Marco Tippmer made the claim during a session on the hype and realities of the latest training technology. We have been here before, he admitted, during the ‘virtual reality 1.0′ bust in the early 1990s, when lack of sufficient computing power undermined expectations surrounding touch-sensitive gloves and immersive 3D headsets”.

10. ZDNet UK – Nortel: Virtual worlds may replace the office. “Nortel Networks is looking to the next generation of employees to shape the workplace of tomorrow, and high on its agenda is exploring the role of Web 2.0 technologies and virtual worlds such as Linden Lab’s Second Life”.

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….