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Version 1 – Social Referrals infographic

Ver­sion 1, a con­sul­tancy and man­aged ser­vices firm has been using our Social Refer­rals soft­ware to find new staff. They have described Zartis as ‘game-changing’ in a recent Irish Times arti­cle, which you can read on The Irish Times web­site. Below is a lovely info­graphic of how suc­cess­ful Social Refer­rals has been for them.

Referral madness

We’re see­ing a lot of inter­est­ing angles on employee refer­rals over the past cou­ple of months. The lat­est is a job seeker offer­ing $600 on Craigslist to any­body who gets them a job in their com­pany. They specif­i­cally want to work in sales/biz dev in a pub­lic com­pany in LA County. I can’t fig­ure out […]

The essential history of recruitment

Recruitment agencies: how not to approach a company

We’re a small soft­ware com­pany help­ing peo­ple recruit new employ­ees through social media and employee refer­rals. Today, we received an unso­licited email from a large recruit­ment agency that “spe­cialise in work­ing with start up com­pa­nies.” Strangely the email goes on to say that “our stan­dard terms and con­di­tions are auto­mat­i­cally attached to every email we […]

Online and social recruiting checklist

Some­times it’s hard to see the wood from the trees. You get bom­barded with so much info it’s some­times hard to do an objec­tive self appraisal. So we’re try­ing to help by offer­ing you a free and con­fi­den­tial review of your online and social media recruit­ing. If you’re inter­ested we’ll do the fol­low­ing: Review your […]

Do paid ads in social media deliver candidates?

We’ve an ongo­ing debate in the office about how effec­tive ads in social net­works are for recruit­ment. The atti­tudes run some­thing like this: “You’re in LinkedIn and prob­a­bly think­ing about your career so it’s a good time and place to get someone’s atten­tion.” “I’ve never clicked on one of those ads.” “The jobs dis­played in LinkedIn definitely […]

Employees and social referrals

We’re build­ing an employee refer­ral fea­ture into Zartis. We’re strug­gling with the mar­ket­ing mes­sage. “Unlock­ing the poten­tial of your employ­ees’ social graph” might be a true state­ment but it doesn’t sound great, does it? “Lever­ag­ing your net­work to har­ness the poten­tial.…” I can’t go on.…. So, some­body in here came up with “instant refer­rals, just add […]

Mobile recruiting made easy

We’ve just made all of our client job sites mobile friendly. Why bother you might ask? 5% of all traf­fic to our clients’ job pages is already from mobile devices. That num­ber would have been under 1% two years ago. That’s fast growth. Expect it to con­tinue. Some­thing like 750,000 smart phones are being acti­vated every day! […]

New year, new job

Despite the wheels of com­merce grind­ing to a halt over Christ­mas, vis­its to our clients’ job pages still aver­aged 50% of their usual daily traf­fic on 24th, 25th, 31st Dec, and 1st Jan. Each of these days was on a Sat­ur­day or a Sun­day. On a nor­mal week­end vis­its to job ads are often down […]

Mobile recruiting

We’ve been toy­ing with mobile recruit­ing strat­egy for the past cou­ple of months. We started by review­ing how many vis­i­tors to Zartis are using mobile browsers. The fig­ure is about 5% with about twice as many iOS as Android hits. A cus­tomer asked if this includes hits from iPads when our users are inter­view­ing candidates. […]