eQuest now offering Job Board Analytics

http://www.equest.com/news_jobtracker.php

eQuest, a job distribution company, has announced a new feature to their product that helps companies determine the best bang for their posting buck.

The tool has been effective in measuring the results of job board spending and helps better determine Internet recruitment strategy effectiveness based on quantitative metrics.

New features include which job boards get the best candidate results by measuring and comparing how many candidates viewed the job at the board and comparing those results with how many of those candidates clicked the apply button to respond to the job.

This is a great feature for any client using eQuests posting product in applicant tracking systems like Taleo. However, eQuest is currently not available in the quickly dominating RecruitMax's ATS.

You find more detail about this feature here

Google gets in to the Job Board Business

Google has finally broken in to the HR market. Everyone wondered when it would happen. As the recruitment sector gets more and more complex and more and more data is being passed between this or that system, it was only a matter of time before google stepped in to index all said data.

Now with Google Base, (short for database) you can submit all sorts of data to google that can be search on - at a later time. One of the main categories is JOBS. So you can submit your job data either one at a time, or using a batch process that accepts an extension of RSS for job data. They do have a limit of 1000 jobs per batch, but nonetheless when google starts doing it, everyone takes notice.

CareerBuilder was smart and formed a relationship with Google early on and now supports "cross posting" to Google. Job boards watch out, when google starts delivering candidates FOR FREE - your $260 dollar a posting cost will seem a tad over priced!

http://base.google.com

HireBlog is Back!

That's right kiddies, HireBlog is back and ready to turn the technology recruitment sector on its ear. This time we will cover the details of Recruitment companies, release more industry secrets and, like always, will never afraid to speak our mind.

In the next few months we will be covering a lot of information on new Applicant Tracking Systems, Job Boards, Sourcing Products, etc. If your company has new products that are coming out, please feel free to email me the info at HireBlog@gmail.com.

This time around multiple industry experts will author HireBlog - some cloaked in anonymity and others not so anonyms.

Here's to raising more recruitment cane!