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Is your campus Web site ready for mobile? College-bound students are researching colleges via tablets and smart phones
November 30, 2012 by William Frierson
Mobile is becoming a popular method to research colleges and universities for prospective students. To find out what this means for higher learning institutions, check out the following post.Are prospective students going mobile when they search for colleges online? According to the latest E-Expectations data, the answer is increasingly becoming “yes.”
Since the 2010 study, the E-Expectations project has tracked how many prospective students have viewed college Web sites on mobile devices. Those numbers have gone from 23 percent in 2010 and 14 percent in 2011 to 52 percent this year. With more and more students using smart phones and tablets, those numbers will surely increase in the coming years.
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Managing Expectations: A Prerequisite to Successful Hiring
August 03, 2012 by William Frierson
Heidi Clark, COO, CHO, Redfish Technology, Inc.
One of the key competencies of an executive recruiter is that of setting expectations, yours and mine.
The recruiter is out there acting as an emissary for a company. She must embody the corporate values and ethics of his client, she must create enthusiasm and motivation for the opportunity. When reaching out to both potential candidates and professionals who may refer the next candidate, the recruiter is representing the company brand. The better the collaboration and communication between the hiring manager and the recruiter, the more successful the process. Continue Reading
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Candidate Experience – The Big Seven Process Expectations, Part 2 of 6
July 23, 2012 by William Frierson
This is Part Two of a series connect to the Candidate Experience Monograph.We believe one of the customers in the business process called staffing is the candidate. And being interested in customer expectations, we asked job seekers what were the most critical bits of information they wanted to know about their application process. Their responses are not real surprising, but they may pose a challenge to recruiters, in particular, recruiters with high applicant-to-hire ratios.
In this second in a series, I will share the job seeker’s top seven expectations of what they want to know about their application, but first, I digress.
Back in the day, before the web, I would hang a sign in the front door of our building – Not taking applications at this time. I did not want to deal with a pile of applications from walk-in candidates that I had no use for at the moment. I did not want to establish expectations that the prospect of a job existed either. Continue Reading
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What are the hardest challenges facing college graduates
October 13, 2011 by William Frierson
Competition (too few jobs and too many graduates)Here is the scenario… You have graduated college with a good looking degree; you feel on top of the world and ready to pick and choose your dream job. The reality however is that your one of a many in the same boat. While you feel as though you would be best suited for a particular role there can be hundreds of other people who feel the same way as you. I often tell the story about my days as a recruitment consultant where I used to recruit for graduate positions. I would post a graduate position on the job boards and by lunch time I would have 200 applicants in my inbox. So what can you do to differentiate yourself from the rest of the crowd? You need to ensure that your resume is in the top 5-10% of all resumes. A single mistake in your resume can be the difference between your resume ending up in the interview stack or in the deleted folder. Continue Reading
