Dear Recruiter:
In a weak economy like this, job boards and search engines get used more than ever (http://www.comscore.com/Press_Events/Press_Releases/2009/7/Americans_Turn_to_Career_Sites_During_Economic_Downturn). So recruiters have more applicants than ever. So why doesn't your applicant quality for niche roles seem much better?
The answer begins with two questions: 1) How well are your job postings being seen on job boards, as well as major search engines like Google and Yahoo, and job-specific engines like SimplyHired.com and Indeed.com? 2) And what about your company's online brand exposure?
Yes, dull job postings are part of the problem: Most lack the "what's in it for me" motivating appeal that lets a passive candidate visualize the role, challenge, environment, etc., and want to get off their rear and apply! But even if you rewrote your job postings to make them sing, that's not going to solve your dilemma in the age of Web 2.0.
Nowadays, professionals don't necessarily think to go to a completely different kind of website for jobs. They naturally search in the same place they go to find everything else: their favorite search engine. Google alone has over 150 million searches per month for jobs!
Or if they use a job-specific search, it's increasingly on a job aggregator site that pulls job postings from multiple boards: Indeed and SimplyHired are now both in the top 7 of *all* US job-related sites.
In either case, job postings get buried almost immediately. Did you know that approximately 60% of online users don't look past the first page of their search engine results? And almost 9 times out of 10, users don't venture past the first three pages of search results? Today, it's not how new your postings are that determine their visibility, but their search relevance. Even most career websites are pushed far down the results where you'd like to rank high, deflating your employer brand.
Finally, there's a 90-minute webinar this Thursday, Aug. 13, that really explains search engine optimization (SEO) and marketing (SEM) for recruiting and employer branding, and shows you how to put them to your advantage. It's called "SEO & SEM for Recruiters: An Introductory Guide to Improve Your Online Visibility." Whether you want to do it on your own, or you already use a web consultant, this session will give you the confidence to make intelligent decisions and act purposefully: http://aces.arbita.net/webinars/SEOSEMforRecruiters-aug09
THIS WEBINAR LETS YOU TAP THE EXPERT WE USE
When Shally Steckerl and I have a question about search engine optimization (SEO) or marketing (SEM), we turn to one expert at Arbita ACES: Nicole Bodem. With seven years of SEO experience, the last 2.5 of which specializing in recruiting, she is a guru at helping you increase your online visibility. (Check out her recent excellent blogpost at http://aces.arbita.net/Optimizing-your-Social-Media-Profile about optimizing your social network profiles, too.) Just as importantly, she clearly explains what's in the way of your recruiting success online, and how you can do many of the improvements yourself, regardless of budget.
"Nicole is clearly among the best in this space, cuts through the clutter and tells it straight," said Shally. "When she makes a search recommendation or implements something herself for a client, I know it's going to make a real difference in their online recruiting results."
Today's tools also allow you to understand where your job postings appear and who's coming to your career website as a result. Now, the metrics and platforms to track source exist -- and don't depend on flawed candidate self-reporting. You can determine which channels deliver the right talent.
What surprises most recruiters is that it's not just job boards you need to focus on. Through a combination of SEO and SEM, you can tilt the playing field your way by targeting relevant passive talent on search engines like Google, Yahoo and Bing, job-specific engines like SimplyHired and Indeed, social networks like LinkedIn and Facebook, as well as job boards.
Even if you're new to SEO or SEM, this online workshop on Aug. 13 at 1pm US EDT will cut through the hype and give you the understanding to take action, not dependent on any particular vendor or product. Make a noticeable difference in your job posting and career website success. Get details about "SEO & SEM for Recruiters: An Introductory Guide to Improve Your Online Visibility" and register today for just $99.97 at: http://aces.arbita.net/webinars/SEOSEMforRecruiters-aug09
HERE'S WHAT YOU'LL LEARN IN 90 MINUTES THIS THURSDAY
- A clear understanding of the difference between SEO and SEM: how each works, what it costs and how to control it
- Real-world examples of good and bad job ads, including tips and techniques you can implement immediately
- Effective ways to optimize your job advertisements, ensuring your latest postings have strong presence on the major search engines
- Analytical tools to track responses and understand which metrics are important to track
- How to evaluate your website for search engine friendliness, including which technologies to avoid that may prevent search engines from finding your job postings
- The 3 cornerstones of SEO -- technical, content and trust -- and how to remove barriers so all three are present, with some simple changes you can make today to increase your search engine visibility
- Quality score: Bidding is not everything with search engine ads: your competitor can pay less yet still get more clicks! Learn how that works.
Recruitment SEO and SEM are key to succeeding in the Web 2.0 age. They are the route to the success metrics that talent operations increasingly need to deliver to management. But we realize this is new territory for many, so we want to make it easy for you: We are so confident this webinar will make a difference in your recruiting and sourcing success, that if you decide afterward it wasn't useful, Shally has agreed to let you take a completely different Arbita ACES webinar workshop anytime in the next year, at no charge or obligation.
So what else can you learn by getting a handle on SEO and SEM?:
- Precisely control and track your job-related keyword spend
- Generate metrics for your site visitors & where they're from
- Target talent by location and other criteria - even those seeking jobs among your competitors
- Customize your messaging to applicants
- Drop your cost-per-click and per-applicant
- Turbocharge your employer brand
This professional seminar offers you, without travel and from the convenience of you own computer, an ideal way to learn the latest ideas surrounding search engine optimization and marketing for recruitment. With hundreds of millions of job-related searches done on search engine, job boards, job aggregators and other web properties per month, it only makes sense to learn how to use Search Engine Optimization (SEO) and Search Engine Marketing (SEM) to your advantage. And there's no easier or clearer way to get your jump start than this webinar on Aug. 13 by Arbita's acclaimed SEO/SEM guru, Nicole Bodem:
http://aces.arbita.net/webinars/SEOSEMforRecruiters-aug09
To your success,
Glenn Gutmacher
VP, Arbita Consulting & Education Services (ACES)
http://aces.arbita.net
70 Edge Hill Road, Suite 500
Sharon, MA 02067-1059 USA
email: glenn@arbita.net
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P.S. This is Nicole's first and only scheduled 2009 appearance in our public webinar series. We're confident this will fill quickly, and registrations must be made before the day of the event, so please don't wait and miss out on her unique expertise. Register now for SEO & SEM for Recruiters: An Introductory Guide to Improve Your Online Visibility at http://aces.arbita.net/webinars/SEOSEMforRecruiters-aug09
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