The future of IT recruitment as a service – Part three – Pull and engage

I spent an evening last week going over my recruiting stats (yes I am that sad and can tell you who and where and when I placed over the last 17 years) and I came to the conclusion that as recently as a few years ago, recruiting was a lot easier than it is today. [...]

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The future of IT recruitment as a service – Part one: Doing things properly or not at all

As a corporate member of REC I have always enjoyed the fact that I am backed up by an industry body that expects to see best practice industry standards being delivered by its members. Meeting candidates, getting them registered properly, understanding their needs and drivers and THEN talking about potential opportunities has always been the [...]

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Website changes on the way…

I am currently in the middle of making some subtle website changes which will see the jobs section move to its own branded section on the Storm Recruitment Services site. Of course you will still be able to pick up job postings through the Storm Networking Lounge on LinkedIn if you are a member (it’s [...]

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Google Ad Revenue to Surpass ITV

Further analysis by the Guardian after Google’s earnings statement uses some dodgy math (althought they do explain well what they did).  Anyway, if Google keep growing at their current pace, their ad revenue could over take ITV’s in 2011.  This more points to ITV needing to get itself together.

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Why Women Rule The Internet

Oh, yes they do!  This TechCrunch article has numerous stats that point to the trend that it is the ladies who are driving the usage figures of online properties. Sheryl Sandberg, COO of Facebook said: Women are not only the majority of its users, but drive 62% of activity in terms of messages, updates and [...]

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Twitter Releases New Tools for Brands

Ad Age bring us news that twitter has launched a new dashboard for brands to track their followers and geo-targeting for tweets.   This is all big business according to the excerpt below:   It’s difficult to figure out the price of a Promoted Tweet — based partially on keyword auctions with a cost per engagement [...]

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Using Facebook as an Advertising Medium

Greg Grimmer, partner, Hurrell Moseley Dawson & Grimmer attended “influencers” event at Facebook HQ and created this report for MediaTel.  He summarises some excellent media campaigns that have found success on Facebook but this is my favourite paragraph where is describing walking through their offices: The bright twenty-something’s all cavorted stickers proclaiming that “This journey [...]

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Qype Contest – Win and iPad2

If you haven’t used Qype, download the app!  It is great on the mobile phone.  Google Maps gets you where you want to go, if you know where you are going.  Qype you put on location services, it knows where you are and it will tell you cool places in the area.  I love it [...]

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Google Social Search

Google makes an attempt at Social Search launching its own “plus-one” button.

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LinkedIn Reaches 100m Users

LinkedIn announced their 100m registered user milestone today.  (Remember that there are 500m registered users on Facebook.)   LinkedIn, however, is a much better tool for business and the recommendations section is excellent for feedback.  Big thank you to all of you that use LinkedIn and have contributed to John’s 77 recommendations!

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