Job Boards Unite for Greater Success

06/05/2008

The International Association of Employment Web Sites (IAEWS) is the trade organization for the global online employment services industry. Its Members now operate or power over 35,000 sites worldwide and include some of the best known job board brands in the world. Members range from large and well established enterprises to startups, from general purpose recruiting sites to niche sites that specialize in a particular career field, industry or location, from organizations that operate a single site to those which power thousands of job boards.

The IAEWS will be holding an informational meeting for prospective Members of the Association at the Tarsus head office in Hammersmith on June 2, 2008. The meeting will run from 10:30 a.m. to 12:00 p.m. and include a briefing by the IAEWS Executive Director, Peter Weddle, and a question and answer period.

Seating is limited for this meeting, so seats must be reserved in advance. To reserve a spot for your organization, please contact Wendy Finch at Wendy@onrec.com or call 0870 766 8530. The cost for the pre-conference workshop in £250 plus VAT.

IAEWS membership is open to (a) any organization (company, association, newspaper, radio or television station, affinity group) that owns, operates or powers an employment-related Internet site and (b) any organization that provides products or services to employment-related Internet sites. For additional information, please visit the Association’s site at www.EmploymentWebSites.org.

Best Practice Boot Camp

Optimizing the Candidate Experience: What We’ve Learned (the hard way) in the U.S.

This half day workshop will highlight the findings of 10+ years of research conducted by WEDDLE’s, the largest publisher in the world of print guides to job boards. WEDDLE’s CEO, Peter Weddle, will explore a wide range of key topics and provide a toolkit of practices for improving the quality and quantity of your yield from online recruiting.

The workshop will cover

• A methodology for selecting the right mix of job boards,

• A template for writing job postings that will sell passive high caliber candidates,

• The top five data mining techniques and where to use them for sourcing,

• The differences between social and professional networking on the Web,

• A strategy for using both forms of networking to build relationships with talent,

• The secrets to using blogging effectively as a recruiting technique,

• The formula for building and operating a state-of-the-art corporate career site

• and much, much more!

Weddle is one of the online recruiting industry’s most highly rated trainers. His sessions artfully combine theory and practice, concept and real world results. As one participant in his workshops put it, “WOW!! I had the opportunity to listen to Peter Weddle speak last week at a conference and ‘WOW!!’ does NOT do justice to how I felt after listening to him!”

The boot camp will be held on June 2, 2008 at the Tarsus head office in Hammersmith. The fee for the three and one-half hour program is £350 which provides entrance and a full set of the training materials. Seating is limited for this program. To register, please contact Wendy Finch at Wendy@onrec.com or call 0870 766 8530. The cost for the pre-conference workshop in £250 plus VAT.

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