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July 30, 2007

What is Recruitment SEM – Search Engine Marketing?

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You may or may not have noticed our home page and title of our home page has changed to reflect the words, Recruitment SEM Search Engine Marketing, and I thought I should describe what this really is. I was doing some research on the internet regarding this, and I couldn’t really find much. I did find one article/presentation that was presented by Peter Weddle and sponsored by Yahoo Pay Per Click, but that’s more to promote buying keywords on Yahoo rather than explaining what Recruitment SEM – Search Engine Marketing is all about.

First let me start by explaining what Recruitment sem– Search Engine Marketing is not.

• TV Advertisements
• Billboard Advertisements
• Newspaper Advertisements
• Job Board Postings
• Career Websites
• Applicant Tracking Systems

Wikipedia describes Search Engine Marketing as the following:

Search Engine Marketing, or SEM, is a form of Internet Marketing that seeks to promote websites by increasing their visibility in the Search Engine results pages (SERPs) and has a proven ROI (Return on Investment). According to the Search Engine Marketing Professionals Organization, SEM methods include: Search Engine Optimization (or SEO), paid placement, and paid inclusion.[1] Other sources, including the New York Times define SEM as the practice of buying paid search listings, different from SEO which seeks to obtain better free search listings.

Essential recruitment sem– search engine marketing is the combination of recruitment, and recruitment SEM– Search Engine Marketing to increase your visibility, return on investment and decrease your cost per hire.

Why is all of this important? The declining numbers of qualified candidates is leading hiring managers and recruits to take more ingenious approaches to reach passive candidates as active candidates aren’t enough to fill the void. Recruitment SEM– Search Engine Marketing bridges the gap of employers trying to reach passive candidates where they spend time online reading about their job or industry. It allows a one to one marketing (if done correctly) relationship to reach the people you want to, while capturing metrics of how and where you have reached these candidates unlike offline marketing.

Here are a couple of benefits of Recruitment SEM– Search Engine Marketing.

• Targeted keyword advertising to reach passive candidates
• Geo – Location targeting to reach passive candidates locally or globally
• Keyword metrics to understand who your capturing
• Detailed analytics to understand what to do and not to do
• Increased employment value proposition
• Serve job ads to people searching your competitors

If you not utilizing Recruitment SEM– Search Engine Marketing than you should start quickly, if you are make sure you are doing all your homework on products, services, analytics or just Hire Us!

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July 18, 2007

Can A Doctor Mow Your Lawn?

The answer to this question is yes, but is it the best use of his time?

I have to laugh when we do proposals for companies and here is a case in point. We had a company that wanted a HR SEO proposal as they are in business of RPO, Sourcing and automated talent sourcing. So the premise/proposal was for them to reach talent managers, sourcers and hiring managers when they would type in keywords into search engines.

So I set off and created an HR SEO proposal for them so their site would show up in Google, Yahoo etc in the organic search so that people could find them and engage them to hire their recruitment sourcers. I knew I was in trouble when the woman who was my new contact (as I was dealing with the CEO) said I handle all the marketing for the company and I have no idea what you talked to the CEO about. So I gave it a shot anyway. Created, the proposal and sent it off. Couple of days go by and no word so I call up my new contact and they inform me that the design company that created their site was going to handle the seo work for it.

So here is where the Doctor reference comes in. Now I have no idea about this design company however wouldn’t you hire an expert in your field that has proven results instead of going to someone that does design work? Instead of hiring a doctor to mow your lawn wouldn’t you hire a gardener? The best course of action would be to hire an HRSEO expert to get great seo results for your career page for you. If you type in the word name sourcing, phone sourcing or resume database mining into Google your going to get our company Sharkstrike.com shouldn’t that be one of main factors in your decision making when hiring an HR SEO company is results?

Here is another good article I read about hiring an SEO Consultant. Enjoy, and remember a doctor can mow your lawn!

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