Archive for January, 2011
New Features just added
11 year ago
Good morning one and all,
We know recruiting can be hard. That is why, in our endless mission to deliver great tools and services to you, we have been working tirelessly and just released some great new features. Check them out below:-
FREE VACANCIES PAGE for your website or blog
Now you can have all of your job vacancies listed on your own website or blog for FREE. All you have to do is login to your Thirst4work dashboard, check out the nice new box that looks like this. (see below). Copy the code and paste it into your website or blog. That’s it! All of your jobs that you post on Thirst4work will now also display on your website or blog
Sharing of Job Ads
We’ve also added some great tools to allow jobseekers or you, to share your jobs via all of the social media connections. Sharing is caring and we anticipate that this will get your job ads to an even wider audience.
Date Picker
We’ve listened, many of you have asked for a date picker instead of manually editing a job, this is now a nice little graphical widget which allows you to select a date from a calendar.
Some recent additions to recap
- All jobs now sent to Twitter and the relevant job category
- Ability to view expired jobs
- Earn a FREE banner ad for referring job seekers to us
What is important to have on a CV?
01 year ago
by brad
in Uncategorized
The majority of recruiters will spend most of their working week reviewing and reading CV’s. What are the absolute must haves on a CV, what formats do you prefer and what is your pet hate when it comes to a bad CV. Please share your thoughts
The CV is dead!
11 year ago
It is with great sadness that we mourn the passing of the CV. It joins the list of items whose usefulness has been eroded with the advent of the internet and development of social networks.
Why? We hear you ask. Quite simple, in today’s competitive job market place, you need to stand out. We are not talking about creating a flashy CV with pics and colours, we are talking about a CV with a new dimension. The traditional CV is a document which, to be honest, not everyone knows how to write, furthermore, it is your own opinion of yourself. In today’s online and highly networked world, reputation, referrals and recommendations are the order of the day.
Introducing the Thirst4work Professional Profile.
Today, Thirst4work.com, the innovative and connected career portal has launched the “Thirst4work Professional Profile”. Various functionalities have been built into this tool, for example: import your LinkedIn profile, attach your word CV and even better, a sleek step by step prompted guide through the entire process of building a professional online profile. To top this, for each job you’ve held in the past, you are able to request recommendations from colleagues and employers. This feature adds a huge amount of weight to your already professionally presented CV/Profile thus increasing your chances of being called up for that job interview you deserve!
Even if you are not in the job market, you should have a professional profile prepared and maintained.
The tool has already had some fantastic feedback from jobseekers, professionals and employers alike.
Want to see what all the buzz is about? Create your FREE professional profile today. www.thirst4work.com
PRESS RELEASE: FREE Job advertising now possible
1 year ago
20 January 2011, Ballito, South Africa
Innovative Career and Talent portal, Thirst4work.com, has now enabled free job advertising for all.
This is a great shift in the way recruitment agencies and companies source talent. Previously, clients have had to spend substantial sums when trying to attract and source talent.
Thirst4work.com have only been in the market a short time and have taken the bold step to offer their job advertising service for free and open up job advertising to everyone from the smallest to largest of businesses in the country and globally.
MD of Thirst4work.com, Brad Dowden, had this to say “The internet is generally known to be free…so why should we charge for job ads? Job advertising should be free, it just feels right. Our aim is to ensure that every opportunity in the market can be listed, there should be no reason for a company not to advertise now and hopefully we can help in the process of getting those 5 million planned jobs filled in the next 10 years.”
Their new service provides recruiters with useful tools to help engage their social media revolution and provides premium services for a small fee. Having recently re-launched their service offering, their client base has rocketed.
Brad went on to say “the market has welcomed our approach with open arms, and many are now able to re-allocate some of their funds previously spent on costly advertising to help grow their businesses and secure their footing for the future. We are glad that we have been able to assist them. Even better, we are helping people secure and find employment”
Thirst4work.com is the innovative career and talent portal which engages employers and job seekers to fill vacancies. http://www.thirst4work.com
Work Experience Key to landing a job
11 year ago
The year is has just begun and many new students have enrolled with colleges and universities to gain a better education which will help them secure a good job in the future….or will it??
Let’s place ourselves in the shoes of an employer for just a moment. They have a vacancy, which actually translates to “they have a need for an individual to add value to their business to help it grow.” You place a job ad and start sorting through the applicants.
Before we go any further, who would you choose?
A person with experience for the role that can hit the ground running, or a person with no experience that you have to train?
I’m sure we will all arrive at the same answer, we would rather hire an individual with experience.
Back to the here and now. Many of you have just enrolled in your new courses, have big dreams for the future and expect to land your dream job at the end of your qualification…but as we’ve just explored, it is not that likely.
So what should you do?
My suggestion is that you start today contacting companies or businesses in your chosen profession and try and secure part time work or even offer your services for free to gain experience. This serves a number of purposes, firstly you now have contacts in a company that should you succeed, may offer you a paid job when you graduate. Secondly, you are gaining valuable experience that is relevant to your course and qualification. You will get more out of your studies as you can equate it to real life work experience. Thirdly, your CV now has experience and will soon have a qualification to go with it.
By doing this, you have greatly enhanced your chances of landing the first key role when graduating.
The alternative is you can sit back, study and have an easy year and the struggle to find a job when you graduate.
The choice is yours, make the right one.
Ignore applicants at your peril
11 year ago
Do you respond to every applicant who applies to you?
With the world of social networking steam rolling ahead (some predict Facebook will top 1 Billion users this year) how does a bad experience translate and impact on your business? I’ve given talks before about this and what we fail to realise is that a clients bad experience may be tweeted, posted on facebook or vented verbally to friends and colleagues. With the power of social media, these messages can be spread like a virus…which quite simply equates to bad press for your business or brand. On the flipside, a wonderful experience can have the same effect and greatly enhance your business.
As I am sure many of you have experienced in the past, we have all been in the job market and we have all applied for a job. How many of you have not received any answer or response to your application, how did it make you feel?
We live in a very verbal world and you need to ensure that every one of your applicants are responded to in a timely fashion.
Check back soon for our next post on what you can do to minimize your exposure and maximise your employer brand
Announcement: Thirst4work.com goes FREE
11 year ago
by brad
in Uncategorized
Happy new year to all of our clients and readers!
Thanks for the support over the last 8 months and glad you have joined us for the journey. As the title eludes to, Thirst4work has gone FREE. It has to date been free for job seekers, however we thought that 2011 should offer something special to all of those companies and recruiters looking for top talent. If you LIKE Free jobs, click here
So what does the Free service provide…
Well a whole lot actually. There can be multiple users relating to each company, we provide tools to manage your applicants, a vastly improved job ad creation tool which is quick and easy as well as all jobs being tweeted to the right people. Exciting stuff!
There is a whole lot more, so if you are looking for staff, get your company or agency to join and start advertising….It’s FREE and thats the price we like