Bullhorn released another interesting product today: theFIT.
In there words:
theFIT.com is a place where job seekers and employees can get answers to those awkward questions that they really want to know, but would never ask.
Bullhorn claims the intent of theFIT is not a "dig-up-dirt site" but more about understanding the corporate culture of where people work or want to work.
What do you think?
Interesting infographic on the results and success of integrating social media with your email marketing campaigns.
The major finding of the GetResponse analysis is that the number of users who include social sharing buttons in their emails increased to 18.3%. Compared to last year’s results, that’s an increase of 40%.
It's definitely a popular question for our time. From the perspective of both employer’s and employees, this issue is definitely one to consider.
Here's a great post on why staffing companies should adopt social media policies and why employees should be very clear about those policies.
From the employer’s standpoint this ownership issue is a prime reason why employers should adopt social media policies clarifying who owns the social media accounts and ownership rights when the employment relationship is terminated. For example, it may make sense to allow employees using LinkedIn to keep their accounts but cleanse them of information that belongs to the employer because of the employer’s financial investment in the site and to ensure the employee is no longer associated as a spokesperson for his former employer. As a strategy to minimize, and perhaps avoid litigation altogether, an agreement between the employer and employee delineating the post employment rights of both the employee and employer to the account would seem the most efficient way to deal with this issue.
Full Article: http://computerfraud.us/articles/think-you-own-your-linkedin-twitter-and-facebook-account-think-again
Some very interesting statistics and information on nursing you've most likely heard, laid out in a nice infographic. This one comes from Wall Stats, created for nursingschool.org.
Image provided by Nursing School.org
Guest Blog by Tom Chevalier- Global Product Manager at Monster and product lead for BeKnown™ – the professional networking app on Facebook. This post appeared orginially on Monster's blog - MonsterThinking.
Today at f8, Facebook’s developer’s conference in San Francisco, Monster announced that BeKnown™ is launching new features that make it possible for people to add professional updates like career changes and college graduation information directly to their Facebook profile. Monster is among the first companies integrating Facebook’s latest features to bring more social engagement to the online careers and professional networking industries.
So what does this all mean for BeKnown members? In the coming weeks, you’ll be able to share customized professional networking activity back to Facebook that goes beyond ‘Liking.” These custom actions open up new opportunities and make it easier for you to feature career updates and highlight your professional brand to help advance your career goals. Quite simply, you now have a better way to show a more complete story of who you are as a professional.
Facebook has always made it easy to discover great things and now BeKnown makes it even easier for you to present yourself as a professional, and connect with friends and family to better express what you’re doing at work or where you are at in your career. Through consistent and easy to understand settings on BeKnown (only ‘Everyone’ information is shared), you also remain in full control over how your activity is shared, thereby maintaining the separation of personal and professional information.
For more information on the announcement coming from today’s f8 conference, visithttps://developers.facebook.com/blog/post/563/ . And check out our BeKnown press release.
Guest Blog by Tom Chevalier- Global Product Manager at Monster and product lead for BeKnown™ – the professional networking app on Facebook. This post appeared orginially on Monster's blog - MonsterThinking.
Blog post by Staffing Robot Founder, Jason Lander. This post originally appeared on Monster's Blog - MonsterThinking.
The new metric for measuring business success is customer delight. If you’re not delighting your customers, the prospect of growth in today’s highly competitive, low-growth economy isn’t promising.
When was the last time you went above and beyond and completely “delighted” a customer with your actions? If you’re having a hard time remembering you’re long overdue. In fact, if you can’t think of multiple, recent examples it’s time to re-prioritize.
Not to worry though, although delighting your customers means more than doing your day-to-day customer service, you can still accomplish big wins with some very simple actions.
Here’s some suggestions for delighting your customers and making a big difference in the success of your business.
1. Be accessible. Make sure your customers have multiple ways to get a hold of you. This doesn’t mean you have to be available 24×7, it simply means your customers should have more ways of contacting you than your 800 number.
The phone is one channel, but email and text are very effective (often these days preferred) methods of communication. Social networking channels are also very effective.
I find myself conversing with clients and even setting up appointments through networks like Facebook and Twitter. Be sure your customers have all of these means to reach you with. Don’t worry, they won’t use all of them. They’ll simply find the one that works best for them.
2. Respond quickly: Don’t delay on responding or delivering service to your customers. The faster you respond to customer questions and complaints, the happier your customers will be.
Further, it will keep them from seeking alternative forms of getting your attention like posting negative comments on public, social networking sites.
3. Practice ‘WOWism’: hThis one comes straight from one of my favorite business – Ruby Receptionists.
Ruby is a team of virtual receptionists who’s entire mission and focus is to delight customers. One of their core tenants is what they call practicing ‘WOWism.’ WOWism is more than impressing, it’s — surprising, delighting, WOWing.
In Ruby’s own words, “We’re not just about answering phones. We’re about finding that special something that will knock your socks off, and giving it to you before you even know you want it.”
For Ruby, simply doing a good job isn’t enough. This is a goal we should all strive for with our businesses.
4. Be A Thought Leader and a Resource: Do you have a customer involved with a big research project? Help them find helpful data. Are they looking to hire someone? Make a referral.
One of the best things you can do is help them identify complementary products and services that will improve their operations, employee morale or revenue. By displaying your expertise you show your customers you have even more value than the day-to-day service you provide.
5. Promote Their Business. Don’t just service your customers – promote them. Refer their services to your friends and colleagues. Share their successes with your networks. Even pass on deals, promotions or discounts they’re offering.
After all, your success is built on the success of your customers – so help them be successful. If they know you’re in it to help them succeed you will become a true partner.
It’s easy to get caught up in the day to day of servicing your clients or become hyper focused on your own company strategies and goals. However, the best long and short-term strategy you can peruse is delighting your customers.
Remember these tips and your customer experience will improve dramatically.
Blog post by Staffing Robot Founder, Jason Lander. This post originally appeared on Monster's Blog -MonsterThinking.
Ed Bennett has long updated data on hospital social media usage on his blog 'Found in Cache.' Today he put out an interactive Google map based on that data.
The map lets you filter hosptials by type and drill down in to the locaiton and social media pages for each hospital. It's a great resource - check out the interactive hospital map here.
You can view the full screen version here: Full screen hospital social media Google map.
Here's another great nursing infographic. This one describes the role of nursing in the military.
(Click to enlarge)
[Via: Carrington College's RN programs]
The work was done by: http://submitinfographics.com/
Commissioned by: http://carrington.edu/cc/programs/nursing-registered/
Guest Blog Post by: Kyle Lagunas - HR Analyst at Software Advice.
When it comes to using social media websites for recruiting - what we call social recruiting - how far is too far? Beyond learning the hard way what works and what doesn’t, there are some best practices emerging to help recruiters know when they’ve pushed the proverbial envelope too far. And hiring professionals are discovering a new line of recruiting applications and tools built into applicant tracking software to help them rise above the same old hashtag to better identify, connect with and place viable candidates.
For all their good intentions, many folks using social media in their recruiting efforts are running into the same issues. Here are the top three:
Lessons Learned from the Trenches
Some people are experiencing more success in social recruiting than others, and have picked up a few tricks worth sharing. Carolyn Betts, CEO of Betts Recruiting, is one such person, and was recently featured in a New York Times article, for leveraging social media to grow her recruiting success. She and I chatted last week, and she shared some lessons she’s learned from the trenches.
Software Expanding Recruiters’ Reach
Human resources software is growing to help recruiters make use of social media in their hiring strategy. But before recruiters can fully harness these helpful tools, they must determine whether or not they are in the right social media playground.
According to a recent study, approximately 85 percent of U.S. companies used LinkedIn for recruiting last year, though only 30 percent of active job seekers are on LinkedIn. As such, many recruiters are finding LinkedIn a bit overcrowded. Where are the candidates? The large majority of them are on Facebook.
Because the data recruiters are looking for is a little harder to find on Facebook, however, many miss the sourcing opportunity this vast network provides. Fortunately, there are third-party software developers devising methods to put actionable candidate information into the hands of recruiters quickly and efficiently. Some of these recruiting solutions are standalone applications that leverage recruiters’ networks. Others - like Bullhorn Reach - are applications designed specifically for automating social recruiting.
For further reading, check out this original article at: http://blog.softwareadvice.com/articles/hr/ social-recruiting-how-far-is-too-far-010271/
About the Author: Kyle is the HR Analyst at Software Advice – a company that reviews human resources and applicant tracking software.
Great infographic by Onward Healthcare titled 'A Guide to Travel Nursing Jobs.'
Data for the Onward Healthcare travel nursing infographic included motivational factors for choosing a travel nurse career, age demographics, benefits information, and social media usage of these travel nurses. The guide also highlights salary info for travel RNs and a timeline of the travel nursing process.
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