Recently, Jobboard Finder had an interview with Rik Hülser, General Manager of Jobs.lu. This job board with more than 350,000 visits, 160,000 unique visitors and 2,200,000 page impressions per month is today the leader in online recruitment in Luxembourg and delivers 36.3 applications per listing in average.
It is often said that recruiter’s role is to reduce as much as possible recruitment risk and uncertainty. However, are all risks bad? Should a recruiter avoid risk at all cost even if it means discarding candidates that could be seen as the best fit for a given position?
We are very familiar with the concept of niche jobboards and already spoke a lot about this on this news section and especially about language job sites. However, we found out that Backpacker Job Board has a positioning which makes it very unique and therefor very interesting. We warmly recommend it for all recruiters wanting to recruit in Australia.
A trend that has recently attracted a lot of attention is Talent Relationship Marketing. It is always presented as the solution for companies with recruitment issues. It offers the promise to engage prospective candidate, create a strong company culture, find the best possible hires and maintain long lasting relationship with candidates. So let’s see how it plays out practically and if talent RH solutions really live up to their promises.
To bring the spotlight to this interesting country, we recently interviewed JobDNES.cz one of our 896 job board partners and one of the leading job boards in Czech Republic. We spoke with Vladimír Dubeň who works as Head of S. M. E. Sales. He gave us some insight about Czech e-recruitment market and how he sees its evolution in the future. He then explained to us JobDNES strategy to keep increasing its market share and the new features they will introduce on the market.
There are many potential reasons for wanting to recruit internationally. You might be looking at expanding your operations into a new, remote location. But you might as well simply wanting to ensure that you constantly hire only the best candidates, so you cannot focus your efforts on local candidates only.
Many recruiters prefer to post their job listing on niche job boards before they resort to posting on major job boards. The main advantage of a specialized job board is that it is more likely to pull in qualified candidates with the appropriate profile. For a job seeker this is obviously a huge time saver.