Monday - October 16, 2000

Best 20 Practices for Corporate Career Websites

Recruitsoft/iLogos Research, which studies and monitors trends in the Internet recruiting industry, announced today that it has identified the 20 Best Practice Career Web site features for effective recruiting.

A full report detailing the Fortune 500 Companies' use of these features, entitled Best Practices for Fortune 500 Career Web Site Recruiting, will be released October 26, 2000. The company will detail the study results in three separate Webcasts beginning on that date.

Yves Lermusiaux, founder of iLogos Research, said "We have been monitoring the Fortune 500 for the past three years, and during that time we have seen tremendous growth in these companies' use of corporate websites for recruiting. We are focusing on the Best Practice Web site features that are most effective for recruiting qualified candidates in order to shed new light for all companies on effective online recruiting in today's tight labor market. This report will provide a benchmark for all companies seeking to measure the effectiveness of their online recruiting efforts-and it will show how their recruiting efforts can pay off in time, cost, quality and, ultimately, retention."

Recruitsoft/iLogos Research has identified the following Best Practices for Fortune 500 Career Web Site Recruiting:

1. Link to Careers Section from Homepage
2. About the Company: Benefits
3. About The Company: Culture
4. Separate College Recruiting Section
5. Job Search by Job Category
6. Job Search by Location
7. Job Search by Keyword
8. Urgent Need Jobs Highlighted
9. Complete Job Description
10. One Click to Apply
11. Pre-Assessment Tools Customized for Each Position
12. Choice of Cut-And-Paste Form or Resume Builder
13. Attachment of Formatted Resume
14. Application Automatically Connected to a Job
15. Anonymous Application
16. Email to Friend
17. Job Agent
18. Profiling
19. Reuse of Candidate Information for Multiple Applications
20. Online User Feedback

Dot Commers Now Seeking Stability Over Stock Options
According to ABC News:

"The dot-commers are growing up. With stock market riches no longer a sure thing, tech workers are cutting out the wild parties, cutting down on the 100-hour weeks and negotiating for — not stock options — but salary, vacation and 401(k) plans.

What's behind the change? Part of it is just 'growing up,' but an expert on Internet hiring says even 22-year-olds are scrutinizing potential employers not for the size of their wet bar, but for their staying power and work/life balance.

'A culture built on get-rich-quick is fundamentally a shallow and unstable platform,' says Mike Foster, CEO of AIRS, a company which helps train recruiters. Referring to the dot-com 'gold rush,' he said, 'I'm not sure if it's ended forever, but it's certainly swung the other way.'..."

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