Comments on: Your Corporate Website Is Boring Applicants http://www.ere.net/2007/12/10/your-corporate-website-is-boring-applicants-4/ Recruiting intelligence. Recruiting community. Tue, 02 Dec 2008 16:29:40 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.3 By: Yahoo’s 4 Questions : ERE.net http://www.ere.net/2007/12/10/your-corporate-website-is-boring-applicants-4/#comment-7311 Yahoo’s 4 Questions : ERE.net Wed, 10 Sep 2008 18:11:27 +0000 http://www.ere.net/2007/12/10/your-corporate-website-is-boring-applicants/#comment-7311 [...] job search is aimed at Gen X-ers who don’t want to beat around the social-networking bush. In contrast with most career sites, which could put a wild boar to sleep — has done it right, actually [...] [...] job search is aimed at Gen X-ers who don’t want to beat around the social-networking bush. In contrast with most career sites, which could put a wild boar to sleep — has done it right, actually [...]

]]> By: Hal Amens http://www.ere.net/2007/12/10/your-corporate-website-is-boring-applicants-4/#comment-3319 Hal Amens Wed, 12 Dec 2007 06:00:00 +0000 http://www.ere.net/2007/12/10/your-corporate-website-is-boring-applicants/#comment-3319 As a sometimes hiring manager who is now looking for a job I agree with Keith. I have seen several Websites that have great features but then do something to leaves me less than thrilled about the company or the job or both. My thoughts at: Job Web Sites that Work (or don't), ... too many sites are more like a maze to be mastered than a path to be pursued. http://www.squidoo.com/job-web-sites As a sometimes hiring manager who is now looking for a job I agree with Keith. I have seen several Websites that have great features but then do something to leaves me less than thrilled about the company or the job or both.

My thoughts at: Job Web Sites that Work (or don’t),
… too many sites are more like a maze to be mastered than a path to be pursued. http://www.squidoo.com/job-web-sites

]]> By: Keith Halperin http://www.ere.net/2007/12/10/your-corporate-website-is-boring-applicants-4/#comment-3318 Keith Halperin Mon, 10 Dec 2007 12:13:00 +0000 http://www.ere.net/2007/12/10/your-corporate-website-is-boring-applicants/#comment-3318 A thorough, well-researched article. IMHO, corporate job websites should be high-profile, appealing, and intuitively easy to use. At the same time, I believe that organizations should operate under the belief that no one they WANT to hire will be recruited through the website, and that everyone who is actually hired will need to be sourced. While this is unlikely to be 100% correct, operating under this presumption will allow devoting more resources toward active as opposed to passive recruiting. 'They're getting away out there' Robert Prosky- Hill Street Blues, mid-1980s A thorough, well-researched article.
IMHO, corporate job websites should be high-profile, appealing, and intuitively easy to use. At the same time, I believe that organizations should operate under the belief that no one they WANT to hire will be recruited through the website, and that everyone who is actually hired will need to be sourced. While this is unlikely to be 100% correct, operating under this presumption will allow devoting more resources toward active as opposed to passive recruiting.

‘They’re getting away out there’
Robert Prosky- Hill Street Blues, mid-1980s

]]> By: Andy Headworth http://www.ere.net/2007/12/10/your-corporate-website-is-boring-applicants-4/#comment-3317 Andy Headworth Mon, 10 Dec 2007 04:19:00 +0000 http://www.ere.net/2007/12/10/your-corporate-website-is-boring-applicants/#comment-3317 Great article Kevin, and it is something that is absolutely spot on with UK Clients. My biggest complaint is that there seems to be a continual battle, between the business and marketing, when it comes to corporate website design. The business want to attract people to the company, but marketing are reluctant to 'give up' the prime spaces on the homepage because they 'don't make money' the same way product or service advertising does. So there has to be a compromise, and that always seems to place the links to the job pages/ career site on the bottom of the home page. Or even worse off the home page altogether in the 'about us' section. So why are these marketing people being so short sighted? targets and bonuses spring to mind!! Great article Kevin, and it is something that is absolutely spot on with UK Clients. My biggest complaint is that there seems to be a continual battle, between the business and marketing, when it comes to corporate website design. The business want to attract people to the company, but marketing are reluctant to ‘give up’ the prime spaces on the homepage because they ‘don’t make money’ the same way product or service advertising does. So there has to be a compromise, and that always seems to place the links to the job pages/ career site on the bottom of the home page. Or even worse off the home page altogether in the ‘about us’ section. So why are these marketing people being so short sighted? targets and bonuses spring to mind!!

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