Job sites in the Netherlands ‘standing still’ as LinkedIn continues to prosper

Posted by Holly Fawcett on Friday, October 28, 2011 in Facebook, Latest, LinkedIn, Social Media, Twitter | 0 comments

A recent Social Talent blog established that social networking sites and email providers make up the top 10 most visited sites in Ireland. This is replicated across the the world, pretty much, and the Netherlands is no different!

Using collated data from Alexa.com we found that Google Nederland, Google, Facebook, YouTube and WindowsLive are the big hitters in the Netherlands with LinkedIn, the first jobs-related site, at number six.

Identified.com – Ranking Your Career To Identify Top Talent

Posted by Holly Fawcett on Thursday, October 27, 2011 in Facebook, Job Boards, LinkedIn, Recruitment News, Social Media, Technology | 0 comments

We came across Identified.com over the weekend and we’ve been playing around with it for a few days (if you got an invite from one of us to connect over it, please accept! It’ll improve our ranking!). What Identified is in a nutshell is search tool for Recruiters based on the Facebook social graph, that helps them find the most talented and best connected students, ranking each user through a database of companies and universities from all over the world in highest order of rank (no idea who’s ranking), and their social network.

LinkedIn Classmates – Network with your old Alumni easily!

Posted by Holly Fawcett on Wednesday, October 26, 2011 in Facebook, Latest, LinkedIn, Social Media | 0 comments

If you’ve been on LinkedIn before, attempted to click the Classmates button and found yourself scratching your head when it did nothing, then keep reading.

The Classmates feature is now up and running!

Do Irish people really search for jobs on job-sites any more? Well here are the official stats:

Posted by Holly Fawcett on Tuesday, October 25, 2011 in Job Boards, Latest, Social Media | 11 comments