In our world of ever diminishing time and the proliferation of job portals, where do you get the time and energy to post the same job again and again and again to each of your preferred portals?  The short answer is you don’t.

Welcome to the solution you have all been asking for…multiposting.  For those of you who are not aware of what a multiposter is, we are about to explain.

Multiposting is a little piece of software (online of course) where you are able to post your job ad in a single location, select all the portals you would like to post to  and at the touch of a button…Voila.  Your job ad has been posted to all of your desired portals.  Easy as that.

The good news is that Thirst4work.com, Nowhiring.co.za and Logic Melon have teamed up to provide you with some amazing tools to not only make your life easier in terms of posting and reviewing applicants, but also the ability to  reach fresh talent which can give you the edge in this ever tightening market place.

Sounds amazing, but this is just the tip of the iceberg, there is so much more to this new way of working which is part of day to day recruiting in the rest of the world.

We are currently offering free trials to all those leading agencies that want to gain an advantage.  If you would like to trial, (no obligation), just click on this link, complete your contact information and we’ll be in touch to get you recruiting like never before.

By now I am sure most, if not all of you are on LinkedIN, building your networks, joining groups and contributing to the ever exploding numbers of followers.  I’m also sure that you are spending a lot of time managing your different networks, tweeting, facebooking, posting job ads etc.  Wouldn’t you like an easier way?

As you are still reading, the answer must be yes.

What you’ll need:

• A LinkedIn Account (free)
• A Thirst4work account (free)
• A Twitter account (free)

We are assuming all of these have been created.

STEP 1

Login to your linkedin account and hover over your name in the top right hand side of your linkedIn screen.  Click on the settings menu item.

Scroll down to the the Profile settings where it says Twitter Settings and click on this

STEP 2

Click add twitter account and a new window will open from Twitter asking to link your twitter account.  Follow the onscreen instructions.

STEP 3

Your Twitter account is now linked to your LinkedIn profile. Ensure all tweets are displayed and enable rich text tweets.

STEP 4

Login to your Thirst4work account, and if you haven’t already linked your twitter account you will see a small Twitter icon and a button saying authorise.  Click on the authorise button and allow access or enter your twitter details.  Your Twitter, Thirst4work and LinkedIN accounts are all linked.

FINAL Step

Start posting your job ads on Thirst4work and they will automatically be Tweeted to your followers, our followers, LinkedIN and on Thirst4work.  If you really want to show off, you can use the free plugin to have your jobs displayed on your blog or website.  Learn how to do this here

This may be simple for many of you, but for the rest, here is a quick tutorial on creating your very own twitter account.  We’ll tell you how to use it in the coming posts.

What is Twitter?

Twitter is a micro-blogging platform that is growing in user numbers and uses each day.

The next steps are a quick guide to creating your very own personal or business Twitter account

STEP 1

Enter www.twitter.com into your browser and hit enter

STEP 2

Now that you are on the site, Click on the big Sign Up button on the site. Example below

STEP 3

You will be displayed with the registration page, example below.  If you are creating this for yourself, enter your full name and then choose a username.  The username becomes the name people will search for you by or enable them to easily follow you.  If you are a company creating an account, use your company name instead of personal name.  (You can create 2 twitter accounts, one personal and one company).  Complete all relevant details and click CREATE MY ACCOUNT

STEP 4

Your Account has been created already, but to start benefitting, start searching for topics of interest.  In this example, we have searched for Thirst4work, results displayed below

the results are displayed.  To follow this user, click the follow button and start receiving all the useful advice straight into your twitter feed.  You can repeat this for as many interests as you have.

Click on the Twitter icon at the top of the website and get taken to your twitter stream.  Explore and learn.

5 Tips for jobseekers on how to stand out in the job market, conquer discouragement & stay motivated.

1) Word of Mouth

Remember the old saying “news travels fast” – well it’s true! Nothing beats the good ‘ol way of spreading the news than word of mouth. In fact, in all my years of recruitment experience, this is something that is attributed a vast number of hires. Get your friends and family in the know about your desire to seek new opportunities.

2) Social Networking

The world is fast evolving and technology is daily innovating new ways to make connections between people more efficient and further reaching. Leverage off of these opportunities and use Facebook & Twitter to let friends know you are in the job market; search company Fan Pages and Follow them on Twitter as they often advertise job vacancies utilizing this media. Linked In is equally as useful in creating a professional online profile that looks just like an online CV. There, your details are searchable and again, it’s a great place to find jobs advertised and new career opportunities.

3) Register your Profile Online

Along with Linked In there are many online job boards where you can access job vacancies and register your CV & profile. Places such as Thirst4Work, and the best thing about it (much like the social networking tools) – its free!

4) Specialist Recruitment Partners

If you have a specialist skill, perhaps along with registering with local recruitment agencies, it is suggested to find specialist agencies that recruit for your niche area of expertise e.g. IT, HR or Finance. These expert agencies allow for your details to sit among a specialist pool of candidates as opposed to a general mix-match of candidates across varying job categories – the benefit being more focused attention.

5) “Like” attracts “Like”

A positive energy goes a long way to positive things happening in your life and in this instance; your job search. People are attracted to positive people and sure enough something will come through for you at just the right time. Remind yourself that negativity breeds negativity: remain focused, and realize that success never comes easy, its all about perspective and you probably wont get the next job you apply for – but look forward to all the people you meet along way, make new contacts, network and enjoy the experience as a learning one. There is always something for everyone, follow your heart and smile, you will find the right thing in the right time.

Kindly provided by Ashley Swanepoel from Talent Desk

ashley@talentdesk.co.za

Just launched today and already have our first client using our free plugin to display job openings on their site.  Check it out here.  http://www.safindit.co.za/careers

SA Find It has recently re-launched and is a site to check out.  www.safindit.co.za If you have a business, you should register on the site.

A bit about SAfindIT.co.za

About:

We aim to connect people with their local businesses, service providers, organisations and groups!

Safindit Locl started out as a web-based business directory that was founded in 2004 to help South Africans find contact details for businesses of all descriptions throughout the country.

As of November 2010, the site has been relaunched in a new format that aims to be at the forefront of online technology. This is no longer a business directory as you have come to know them! This is a place for businesses to get the most out of a free online platform that exposes their company to their local community and the rest of South Africa.

But it’s not just for businesses! In addition to browsing our comprehensive business listings, users who sign in can also use SAFindit Locl to find events, special offers, read stories on their favourite suppliers and interact through various functions, supplying feedback and reviews, which can be shared with other users!

We want you to tell us about your experiences and feelings about organisations in your area and we want you to share your love for the local products and people that drive your life.

Business owners, or people involved in an organisation, such as a charity or social club can easily create a free listing where they can add and edit information, pictures, links and videos relating to their business.

We will continue to add businesses along the way, so you may find a listing already exists for your business. People unaffiliated with a business can also add a listing if they feel it should be included and we will verify that all information is correct before publishing the listing.

Features:
Each business listing gets a unique URL which they can send to other people so they can admire it or add the link to their emails or website, Facebook page or other profiles.

Some of the cool features on the business listings include:

-          There is a full gallery of pictures relating to the business

-          There is a Google Streetview map that takes the viewer to your door

-          There are links to Twitter, Facebook, Foursquare and other social media platforms

-          A QR Code allows viewers to upload the business info directly to their Smartphone

-          We can also load videos and PDF files of Menu’s Price lists or catalogues onto listings so that people can view them.

-              Each listing has a section below it where users of the site can review that business/ organisation, so they can interact directly with their customers.

We are adding new and exciting interactive features daily and eventually there will be paid features and businesses will be able to ‘own’ their listing and use it to promote their specials, events and promotions.

Aside from the actual listings, Safindit also has an Events diary where users can add or browse upcoming and past events from concerts and gigs to expos and conferences.

The Collections feature is really exciting! By grouping listings into Collections users can find specific listings easily and effectively. For example, if you’re looking for an awesome Bunny Chow in Durban, you can just look in the ‘Klup a Durban Bunny’ collection. If you were getting married in KZN and were looking for venues, you could just browse the ‘KZN Nuptials’ collection.

We are also adding celebrity collections where celebs and well-known South Africans give us their favourite places and businesses and we put them in a collection. For instance, ‘Ryan Sandes’ Cape Town’ or John Ellis’s Durban’.

We also have a blog that is updates daily with interesting stories unique to South Africa and we are now running bi-monthly competitions where users can win fantastic prizes sponsored by businesses on the site.

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

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

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

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.

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To all those that attended the Johannesburg recruitment seminar hosted by Thirst4work.com,  A big thank you!  It was great to meet so many of you.  Many requested access to the video on Social Media, please see below and feel free to share.

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