Talent Communities vs Career Websites: Which is Better? [INFOGRAPHIC]

In the war for talent, which will make more candidates apply – a career website or a talent community? This infographic, from Ascendify, gives all the answers.

Takeaways

  • 10% of people apply via career sites compared to 90% who join talent communities.
  • Career websites are static, impersonal and complicated, whereas job communities are active, engaging and easy to join.
  • Career websites supply insufficient sourcing with a high turnover, whereas talent communities give quality, long term employee referrals. [Read more...]

Laurence Hebberd

Laurence Hebberd is Community Manager for Link Humans in London. He also runs the Link Humans Twitter feed - @LinkHumans.

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How to Get the Best Candidates to See Your Job Posting [INFOGRAPHIC]

Our friends at HerdWisdom have come up with the secret recruiting formula to getting the best candidates to see your job postings.

Takeaways

  • You need to use job boards, search ads and social media to receive an influx of qualified candidates.
  • 226,000,000 searches per month on Google contain the word ‘job’.
  • Indeed gets 100,000,000 unique monthly visitors.
  • 10,200,000 Americans said they gained their job through LinkedIn. [Read more...]

Laurence Hebberd

Laurence Hebberd is Community Manager for Link Humans in London. He also runs the Link Humans Twitter feed - @LinkHumans.

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Mobile Recruitment: The Facts and Figures [INFOGRAPHIC]

This infographic, from Jobsite shows how mobile became very popular in 2012 and is expected to increase.

Takeaways:

  • Nearly one third of job seekers want mobile versions of job boards.
  • 40% of jobsite’s traffic is from Apple mobile devices.
  • In Feb 2010, only 43% of people said they owned smartphones. That number is now more than double that (in just over 3 years).
  • In January 2013, 76219 applications on jobsite were mobile. [Read more...]

Laurence Hebberd

Laurence Hebberd is Community Manager for Link Humans in London. He also runs the Link Humans Twitter feed - @LinkHumans.

Filed Under: Infographic, Job Board, Job Search, Mobile, Recruitment Tagged With: , , , ,

The History of the Job Board [INFOGRAPHIC]

This infographic from Sample Job Descriptions, drawing on information from Jeff Dickey-Chasings a.k.a. The Job Board Doctor, shows the history of the job board.

Takeaways

  • Monster and CareerBuilder (originally Net) began in 1994.
  • The ‘Initial Steps’ involved the launching of Craigslist (1995) and Stepstone launching in Germany. 
  • Jobsonline became the #1 job site online in 1999, and niche sites began to appear in 2000.
  • In 2002, Monster bought jobs.com for $800,000 – I wonder how much it would be worth now?
  • In 2003, LinkedIn launched – a new era for job boards. [Read more...]

Laurence Hebberd

Laurence Hebberd is Community Manager for Link Humans in London. He also runs the Link Humans Twitter feed - @LinkHumans.

Filed Under: Infographic, Job Board Tagged With: , , , , , , , ,
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