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Present yourself with SlideShare

mikevandervort — Wed, 17 Nov 2010 23:00:20 +0000

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SlideShare as a career resource

I am sure most of you are familiar with SlideShare. If not, you should be. According to their website, Slideshare is the best way to share presentations, documents, and professional videos. They also bill themselves as the world’s largest community for sharing presentations.

What SlideShare can do for you

SlideShare is a business media site for sharing presentations, documents and pdfs. SlideShare features a vibrant professional community that regularly comments, favorites and downloads content. Content also spreads virally through blogs and social networks such as LinkedIn, Facebook and twitter. Individuals & organizations upload documents to SlideShare to share ideas, connect with others, and generate leads for their businesses. Anyone can view presentations & documents on topics that interest them. The site is growing rapidly with over 25 million monthly visitors.

What you can do with SlideShare

Embed slideshows into your own blog or website.
Share slideshows publicly or privately. There are several ways to share privately.
Synch audio to your slides.
Market your own event on slideshare.
Join groups to connect with SlideShare members who share your interests.
Download the original file

SlideShare is also a great place to keep up with an incredibly wide assortment of presentations and information specifically related to Careers and Recruiting, since they have a category specifically dedicated to the Careers topic. They feature a number of presentations every day, and many are really good sources of technical and topical information. Here are some of the topics that I found today:

A pretty random selection, and just a few of the many resources you can find on SlideShare. I encourage to explore, and if you have never used SlideShare, think how you could use it in your recruiting effiorts.

Is ResumePal the Answer?

admin — Mon, 20 Jul 2009 05:00:23 +0000

Is ResumePal the Answer?

Job Seeker’s frustration with the application process was sited as the number one concern during an informal poll I conducted last week using multiple social media platforms including Facebook, Twitter, Myspace, and LinkedIn. The response was overwhelming with well over 50 comments in the form of emails, direct messages, replies, and general comments. Survey participants expressed concerns with the length of the job search process from the resume to job offer process particularly with the Talent Management Tracking Systems that most mid to large sized companies use to manage their job openings and applicant flow.

@JenniferHarper commented like many, “(Biggest frustration) probably creating an account and entering your information on every organization’s website over and over again.”

Candidates on average spend between more than 20-30 minutes creating profiles and submitting applications for job board websites like Monster and CareerBuilder and sometimes even longer for company specific career sites depending on candidate assessments and skill questionnaires that are required as part of the application process.

Job Fox, a company formed in 2004 aims to bring candidates and companies together with a new tool called, ResumePal. ResumePal is a new service released earlier this year that hopes to make the application process easier for job seekers. Candidates can visit www.jobfox.com or www.resumepal.com and create a candidate profile online once and have the ability to apply to thousands of company career sites. Steven Toole, the VP of Employer Marketing compares ResumePal to PayPal. Much like PayPal, job seekers can use the ResumePal service as a way to universally apply for positions. Companies and Talent Management Systems who use ResumePal can do so at no cost which certainly makes the new tool attractive.

Job Fox’s biggest obstacle will not only be generating traffic and interest for candidates to log onto their site and create a profile as well as convincing millions of companies to utilize the free service. Although ResumePal is a service that is at no cost to companies, the majority of companies are struggling to manage outdated and expensive talent management systems. And updating career service sites is certainly not at the top of the priority list for most companies, who have paired down non-income generating departments like Human Resources, Recruiting, and Information Technology during the current economic crisis.

According to Cheezehead.com, Job Fox has also felt the effects of what Job Fox called “the new normal” economy. In early February 2009, Job Fox restructured its sales force and laid off 30 sales representatives. For most, job seekers and recruiting professionals included, the jury is still out for ResumePal.

Jessica Miller-Merrell, SPHR is a new mother to Ryleigh (pictured above), blogger, human resource professional, and social media enthusiast. Jessica’s blog at www.blogging4jobs.com provides job seekers tips and tricks for the job hunt allowing them to learn the unwritten rules of the job search. Jessica’s upcoming book scheduled to be released this fall is called “Tweet This!” Her book discusses Twitter business strategies for small business, non-profits, and consultants. You can follow Jessica on Twitter @blogging4jobs.

Seesmic Desktop or TweetDeck?

admin — Mon, 04 May 2009 01:26:23 +0000

So we are all big fans of Tweetdeck to manage our twitter and Facebook communities alike, but have given any time to Seesmic Desktop? I won’t waste a ton of time, just check out this video; it’s clean and fast paced. The total length is 3:38.

Managing your online communities is a challenge, but with Seesmic I think the game may have just gotten easier. Pay special attention to the ideas of managing your groups, list and the shear ability to customize your experience.

I highly recommend it and please let me know your thoughts below! Feel free to be the first video comment on CruiterTalk.com. If you are I will reward you with some sort of prize….

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Yammer your way to Success

admin — Thu, 23 Apr 2009 03:11:13 +0000

Internal Communication Just Got Better

Spending a lot of time researching technology and how we can better utilize their offering in the recruiting space has become more than just a hobby to me. It’s rapidly becoming my job and one area that I see across most companies I work with is the ability to communicate effectively throughout their organizations.

The same was true for my employer. Sure we have cascade meetings, and information is readily available at most corners we turn, but I wanted to see more. I wanted to a tool that would allow me to communicate with colleagues in our Shanghai office or understand what they are doing…just because. Twitter can accomplish this to the masses, but I wanted an internal application that would cover us at all ends, from communications to private networks to non searchable comments to the general public.

Enter Yammer: In no way is this brand new, in fact I created our Kenexa Yammer account nearly 6 months prior to the first user signing on. But now that the powers to be see the value, it’s spreading like wild fire. It’s exciting to see the leadership of Kenexa embrace such a great idea and show that they “Get it”.

But how can I tweet, update Facebook and Yammer all at once? Need a way to manage your Lifestream? Check out AlertThingy at the bottom of this post!

Yammer was developed explicitly for organizations to communicate internal in a secure and private setting. In essence Yammer creates a private social network for your company, accessible only to those with your companies email address. The real value here at Yammer is the ability for project groups and employees globally to connect collaborates and share knowledge in one space. With the ability to upload files for other team members to view you have essentially built out your own private workspace

The interface is identical to Twitter with the Yammer brand and runs nearly the same. From status updates, replies, and DM’s the flow is the same with the advantage of groups, groups within groups (private project spaces) and the ability to upload and cascade files to the team and company as whole.

I’ve begun to wonder if expanded on properly will Yammer replace forums or interest groups as we know them to be today. Maybe. But my guess would be that we won’t see this anytime soon.

So how does Yammer compare to Twitter? It doesn’t. They are different. Yammer’s focus is on corporate entities and has options that allow it to monetize; Twitter has yet to establish its true focus or any true viable plan to monetize. Don’t get me wrong, I love Twitter and I must admit, I think I might need rehab soon, because I am addicted.

You can read some of my Twitter postings on Recruiting HERE.

But here’s how they measure up to each other:

The Yammer Network is exclusive to employees with active Kenexa emails extensions
Twitter is limited at this point to groups and network outside of your followers. With Yammer you can see and communicate with everyone in the company network but choose to follow only those you want to see updates from.
Yammer updates are based on information or content internal to the company and are not limited to 140 characters.
Want to know who is who? Yammer builds the company Org chart is a visually appealing manner that can be edited by employees. (Again not index and private)
Yammer security is intense. Networks are not indexed and Yammer does not track or run analytics on its customers; which is why Yammer has a strong business appeal for a viable internal workspace across organizations.

It’s an interesting tool and I definitely encourage you to check it out with your organization. It’s viral and could be very productive. If you’re currently using Yammer let us know how and if it’s effective for you.

You can always connect with me on Twitter: @ryanleary or at CruiterTalk.com

Manage your Lifestream in one easy to use location with AlertThingy!

So a little while ago I posted on Tweetdeck. You can read about it HERE. But what I think might even be better is AlertThingy. Sure they early ripped off the entire UI, style look and feel, but how often do you take brand name meds?

AlertThingy allows you to manage your lifestream in one easy desktop client. It runs in the background and really take no resources away form your system, so it runs smoothly and the results are great. Send your Tweets, Facebook updates, Upload to Flickr and play with bookmaking sites all from AlertThingy…Did I mention Yammer?

I still use Tweetdeck most of the time, BUT AlertThingy is surely winning me over. Check it out. It runs just fine with Tweetdeck installed. Well, at least on my system it does, so you might want to think about that on your own…

Don’t forget to check more article like this out at CruiterTalk.com or connect with me on Twitter @ryanleary