Ideally, a well developed employment brand strategy will include activities geared toward attracting both the active and passive candidates. Active seekers can be attracted with traditional job posting advertisements and by posting jobs on your own website, and making them search engine optimized (you’d be shocked by how many job searches start in a Google search field).
Jason
I wrote this to a former colleague who is now working as a Director at the Maine Workforce Investment Board and a published author. He had reached out to dialogue about what the long term unemployed can do to stay current and increase their chances of becoming employed. I definitely agree that volunteering and, when possible, education development are two major keys to help people through the hard times. However, I do feel that sometimes [...]
Mar 152010
Based on the foremost 3rd party authority for metrics of online job postings, the number of new job ads has grown in the US for the third straight month, nearing levels from 2006.
Nov 202009
The report below, published in 2008 by the Governor’s Workforce Board of RI, outlines the issues facing the hospitality industry in that state- a state which relies heavily on this sector of the economy (who doesn’t love Newport?). What’s disconcerting, however, is that it’s now been a year since this was originally published, and there has been little or no change in behavior by the employers within this industry. I’ve worked somewhat closely with a [...]
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