Posts tagged Twitter
Have you embraced Social Media for recruitment?
02 years ago
If you have not, take a look at this!
Thirst4work.com can help you engage with this market, speak to us today and let us assist.
Helping friends find jobs
02 years ago
by brad
in Career Seekers
With the world and their dog having facebook profiles, twitter accounts etc, the inevitable has happened! We are now all connected in some way or other. Fantastic! What does this mean? Well for starters, word spreads very quickly, it used to happen via word of mouth which would then get distorted (as with Chinese whispers) and the rumour mill would start disseminating false information.
With the advent of Twitter and facebook, word can now spread to thousands within seconds and hundreds of thousands within minutes or days…this is the power of social media. Better still, it is generally accurate and you can follow back to the source.
Now…how to help your friends find jobs. Jobs are increasingly being posted online and the search for a new job is conducted the same way. We all spend many hours a day on the web and we come across lots of useful information. If you stumble upon a job ad that you feel may suit a friend or someone you know, why not share it via twitter, facebook, linkedin and the likes. Thirst4work has a handy feature toolbar that allows every job to be shared. Why not give it a go, visit www.thirst4work.com search a job and then share it.
You will be helping your friends and companies get the right person for the job…
DID YOU KNOW?
We have created twitter feeds for all the most popular job categories, get alerted first for the latest jobs as they are tweeted. Click here to select the most appropriate ones to you. Just one of the ways we are leading the way in helping fill vacancies.
New ways of recruiting
02 years ago
Talent for your organisation is your most valuable asset. So how do you go about attracting the best talent to help grow your business or organisation? This is a question that is debated on a regular basis as to what the most effective methods are.
This article aims to introduce some new concepts to employers who are not using online recruitment, right through to those that are utilising the medium, but could be getting more out of this hugely powerful and yet under utilised tool.
For the “newbies”, what is online recruitment? In a nutshell, it is the advertising and processing of job vacancies in the online environment (the Web). Traditionally, businesses have been placing ads in the local paper. This approach, although delivering high volumes of applicants, is not neccessarily delivering the right candidates for your vacancies. It is costly, lacks all the required information and the reach is only localised. Further more, your fax machine or inbox is flooded and you need to respond to all applicants in a timely fashion (failure to do this portrays a poor image of your company). This is hugely inefficient and wastes your valuable time.
So what alternatives are there? The Internet! The internet/web/online space is changing the way our world operates in terms of business and social interaction. The benefits are numerous, the main one being the breaking down of barriers which provides a wider reach, in a more efficient manner all at a lower cost. The positives for you are less spend, better prospects and time saved in your recruitment process. By posting a job online (a job portal like www.thirst4work.com can help you with this) your vacancy is now posted and is accessible to prospective employees nationwide or even globally…all for a fraction of the cost of traditional mediums.
For the more experienced online advertisers. How do you take your recruitment strategy to the next level? Currently, many job portals on the market merely replicate what the newspapers did…that is, create an ad, and post it online. Boring? Yes, we agree.
So what can be done?
The internet develops and advances on a daily basis, people interact with the web and socially on a whole new level, Twitter, Facebook, Blogs etc. Are you using these avenues to engage and attract the leading talent, which may not be looking at a job portal? We assume you are not…and frankly why should you! Thirst4work.com is leading the way in exploiting these mediums on your behalf so you don’t have to. By advertising your vacancies on our career and job portal, our leading systems and services exploit Social media on your behalf, maximising your reach of your job ad and engaging talent and quality candidates that may not actively be looking.
If you are not using this service, we think you should re-evaluate your strategy and speak with us to guide you along the way.
Thirst4work.com – Refreshing recruitment solutions
PRESS RELEASE – Thirst4work.com sets the pace for Social Media Recruitment
02 years ago
by brad
in Press Releases
12 April, Ballito, South Africa
Leading Career and Talent portal, Thirst4work.com, has once again broken new ground with it’s latest release of their site by redefining the way recruitment in the 21st century can be done.
MD of Thirst4work, Brad Dowden, had this to say “With the constant focus of government on job creation and getting more people to work, we are educating businesses of all sizes as to how they can cost effectively advertise vacancies to the largest audience giving all an opportunity to gain employment via our site. The current mediums available do not engage the youth, graduates nor expats living abroad. With our powerful tools and social media connections, we are able to engage with talent globally”.
Their new Twitter feed service (a first for South Africa) allows job seekers to follow a feed based on Job category thereby exposing the latest jobs to talent immediately.
The company have also created a successful Facebook application to engage a new generation of job seekers, both locally and globally. Brad went on further to say “…technology is breaking down barriers to employment, allowing business and talent to meet, creating opportunities for all”
Thirst4work.com addresses the need for an alternative talent sourcing portal which harnesses the power of the web through social networks in the attraction and sourcing of leading talent from across the globe.
www.thirst4work.com – Refreshment for your career