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Top 6 Important Matrics of Your Career Blog - iSmartRecruit

Your career blog is the door to enter into your organization for your candidates. Generally, candidates start searching for a job, they find a way to apply, they read the career blog, they fill up the application form but somehow, they do not submit their application.

The reason behind this situation is the lack of trust factor. If the candidate does not trust the company, he/she is not going to apply even after filling up the application form. Not only the trust, but there are so many metrics apply for making your career page stand out of the crowd.

Let’s discuss some of them in detail. So whenever you go for promoting your jobs on your website, you keep the eyes on these aspects that matter a lot. Here is the list of Top 6 Important Metrics of Your Career Blog.

Number of Visitors

Source of Visitors

Source if Applicants

Applicant Retention Rate

Conversion Rate

Bounce Rate

1. Number of Visitors:

You need to see how many users are visiting your career page per day / per month / per year. You can have a deep analysis out of these counts.

2. Source of Visitors:

It is very important to see which job board or promotion channel you are getting more visitors. Try to promote more on the channels that are providing you with more number of visitors.

3. Source of Applicants:

We don’t need just visitors. We need the real applicants that are actually willing to apply for the job. Try to maintain the counts with the bifurcation of visitors and actual applicants. After analysing this, you will surely get to know the lacking points of your career blog.

4. Applicant Retention Rate:

After receiving the application, you need to check how many candidates are actually interested in moving further into the processes. If you are getting the application, but no candidates are going for the interview, there is something missing - in your career blog!

5. Conversion Rate:

If you are making your candidates apply from an external source, like job board or social media. There is only a 50% chance of getting an irrelevant application. But if you look at the career page, i.e. open for all. So there is a huge chance of getting more number of irrelevant applications. So try to catch the real conversion rate.

6. Bounce Rate:

If you want to make your career blog interesting and get more applications through career page. Try to make it responsive and creative. Try to make it less bouncy for the candidates.

So, these were some of the important metrics that affect your recruiting business in a hidden way. To read more interesting articles related to recruiting and human resource industry, you can visit iSmartRecruit and if you want to make your recruiting business boost up and more revenue generating, you can ask for a Free Demo today.

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When you find out your best friend is moving from Hawaii to Cali 🌴 ☀️👯👏🏽 Feeing super sunny on this Thursday, how about you? . . . . #jobsbyjoce #careerblog #blogger #website #squarespace #igdaily #igers #thursdayfeels #photos #ootd #blackandbrown #fashion #like4like #marketer #socialmedia #eventplanner #california (at Santa Anita Race Track)

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http://www.betterresume.in/manage-bad-boss/ #resumes #resumewriting #interview #boss #jobchanges #job #careerblog #careergoals #careeropportunity #careers #interview #interviewing #offer

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How to Get a Pay-Hike in the UAE? Read More: http://goo.gl/GCznzL

With the UAE becoming a preferable job destination for a multitude of employees from around the world, a professional life in this country has become highly competitive. Amidst all this, asking for a pay hike is what every employee working in the country desires day and night. Hence, the article will cater to such professionals and help them figure out ways they can secure a pay raise efficiently.

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How to get a letter of recommendation? -Samantha

Hey everyone!

So, are I've said tons of times, and will do so many more, I am in the process of applying to graduate school. And a part of that is asking for letters of recommendation on my behalf. This can feel a little awkward and nerve-wracking, but I promise isn't so bad. So, some helpful tips I've found:

Plan ahead- know who you're going to ask, and when. Many professors and faculty have a lot on their plates and though they might want nothing more than to spend their free time writing you a letter of recommendation, you have to give them time to prepare. Also on this note, knowing who you might want to ask early (like even a semester or two ahead of time) will give you time to get to know the professor, and let them get to you know. From what I've been reading online and hearing from professors, really try to shoot for at least six weeks notice from when the letter of recommendation is due.

Help them help you- the more information you can provide for them, the better. Obviously if you're requesting a letter from a professor you had a huge LC class with, remind them your name, major, and academic standing. But across the board, tell each person you would like to write a letter for you about yourself, the programs you plan to apply to, and offer to provide them with your transcript, resume/ CV or any other materials that may help them write a well rounded and informed letter. If you have the information, also be sure to pass along the information on where to send the letter, via mail or email and by when. If they need to send it by mail, provide them with an addressed and stamped envelope for each school. Remember, they are doing you a favor, don't make it harder on them.

Which brings me to my next point, be polite. Like I said, professors are as swamped as we are. They are human. Be polite when emailing or talking to them and be thankful for their help. Send a thank you email/ card following this whole messy application process to let them know you appreciated their help. 

Here is an idea of what your initial email might look like: http://www.wikihow.com/Sample/Request-for-Letter-of-Rec-for-Grad-School 

And a sample thank you email: http://www.wikihow.com/Sample/College-Recommendation-Thank-You-Letter

Until next time,

Samantha

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Power Sesh

Everyone has their own methods of studying. It is important to find this because it will make something that may originally be daunting into a proactive, “power sesh” where you get all the work you needed to do out of the way. A recent strategy that I have been using is studying while listening to music.

I know seems normal, but for me studying with music has only proved beneficial recently. Before, I would get distracted by lyrics or become bored of what I was doing. So, in order to spice things up I started to browse different genres. I discovered genres in progressive house music, trap electric dance music, and something that is called “chill-step” which is a blend of hip-hop beats and enchanting rhythms. The commonality between all these genres are that they are all instrumentals.

But what is most important is that these genres all play upbeat music that keeps me moving my head and tapping my leg while listening. This is KEY! While listening to this type of music when I study has me engaged in my work. My train of though is often clearer, my body language while sitting is more proactive, and I add creativity to my notes.

  Below I have linked a few examples, but think about your study habits and what works for you. If something is not working think of some strategies to change that.

  Till next week,

  Karan V.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dewRaCoCz30

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bF_I0c0q17Y

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LGcP_7p89lE

[ualbanypeercareerblog]

Welcome Back...Sort of? - Joey Ciampa

Welcome back UA peer career bloggers!!! How was everyone’s summer…? Yeah it is pretty hard to remember considering you probably have already brought out the winter jackets. The blog is off to a late start, but we’re headed straight back into the groove of things.

Hello to all of the past readers out there, and if you’re new to the PCB (peer career blog) I’m Joey Ciampa, I’m currently a sophomore here at UAlbany. I posted blogs last year, every Tuesday, but this year you’ll be hearing from me every Monday. I will be your guide through your years as a college student, helping you with time management, social skills, and studying habits to make your year as successful as possible. I will also give you some helpful tips and tricks to make your search for a job or internship go as smoothly as possible. Come to the PCB and read my blog posts to learn a little something new about me as well as something about careers.

Enough with the serious stuff for now, how was everyone’s summer? Mine went pretty well, I spent most of it working. Over the summer I got to Intern at Traveler’s Insurance in Hartford, CT. I worked in the workers compensation department where I would mostly review claims and bills, file and organize them to be sent forward to other divisions. Being from Connecticut, the job was in a perfect location, I learn a lot about office life, I also met and worked with a ton of cool people. Aside from work, I went on a cruise to the Caribbean, played some video games, and watched a ton of Netflix. So I basically had the ideal summer. 

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Taking it, right in the #redundancy. #FML

"Take a seat, Bel. These things never go down well." That was my global manager, seated with my line manager, Thomas.  I was 25 and being made #redundant, from what I thought was the start of my career in South East Asia, the goldmine of development.

Redundant? Does that mean rejected? 

From life?

Fuck. 

While we've been planning these large scale international redundancies - to follow the set up of our new site in Kuala Lumpur.

  Turns out, there was an earlier meeting than the ones I was there for, where mine was confirmed, the wax melting confirmed and fuck, was I majorly disheartened to say the least. #Betrayal, shock and a can of whoopass were laying into my self and professional esteem. Plus I had to get back to Melbourne from fucking Malaysia now? 

Thomas: "Aren't you happy? It's a great package. Be happy, Bel. Technically, you're lucky to have this severance, following your consulting contract, you only became permanent 14 months before today. If we did this 3 months ago, it would have been free, for us, anyway."

  Did they snort and laugh at behaviours that were different to theirs? Probably. Fuck these guys, you've got a holiday booked. Fuck. You have a meeting, right now. I'm pretty sure I went to the meeting. Idiot. 

"I'm really going to miss this place, Thomas. I've lost friends, I've had a hard time with my partner. I've forgotten shitloads but have learnt more. I'll miss you most of all. Yeah, see you next week for a lunch" - A deflated as hell me manages to muster up.

I was escorted out of the building. I didn't hear from Thomas when I got back home. He didn't congratulate me on my new role. 

Welcome to the corporate world, Gen Y, born after 1981 - it's an ugly place and behind your keyboard is a world that will #killmyvibe and #killyourvibe.

We're going to need a stronger introduction, there's a lot of tales to tell.

  For nearly 10 years, I have taken away the difficulty of attracting, developing and retaining individuals that make mountains of dollars for companies at the top of the Fortune 500, have consulted to start up enterprises on psychometric tools and been part of large scale global HR projects.

I am fascinated by psychology at work; its application in assessments and just how some of the best of them can sum you up as a person. This gives us ways to wrap the coils of a "psychological contract" around the Sales Executives we think might be leaving to competitor lands. They're the flight risks, of which I understand to be 3 types of, so far. 

I am a convicted workaholic with many a relationships having been sacrificed and/or snuffed in order for me to continue ascending up rungs, working all weekend to get ahead on next week and really - just taking the career growth thing a little too far, according to the statistics in my pivot table. 

But if we spin back the time, particularly with the dials of responsibility and commitment; I've also gone toe to toe with a colleague out the back of a cafe, have snuck into work on the weekend to print sizeable quantities of stuff and harbour a secret career for sending things I've sold on eBay in work courier bags to my lucky customers. 

Yeah, there is a part of me that still needs to keep it #sneaky and #street even though those days are long, long behind me so I guess that explains that part.

I must admit - I wondered if I'll be discovered, under the Herringbone collars to be someone who only loved her job and as far as competence went, turning up everyday was what she was best at.  

Peep this - no matter how incredible the recognition; remembering the journey and struggled yards to achieve these bloody business goals only made me believe that because I had been able to do it - that the goals were too small, the strategy too sparse in complexity. 

That is, until I started taking more and more mental notes on the shit that goes down at work, the confidential discussions, the workforce planning - yeah yeah. 

Can we keep it interesting, you say? 

Ok, how about the new restroom for senior execs to avoid a blooded tampon bandit?

Or the operations manager that stole 720K right out the warehouse over 5 months?

Another one coming to mind is the hell unleashed by the EMEA sales director who got his wallet, business card from Stripperama and (rumour was dirty) knickers posted to his home, addressed to his wife....turns out it was Jacob in marketing who didn't like losing his car space last quarter. Fucking ouch. I've got bucket loads. 

This isn't exactly a page for haters, it's more for the common person that didn't really have anyone to tell about #whatwentdownyesterdayatwork, or #standuptobullies that were never called out or maybe just some #stories of #cracked things that we deal with, like bullies and berating at work, in order to pay our mortgages, before we are committed to paying school fees for our children to decrease the ratio of salary : mortgage they will require to set aside for their litter. 

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That's it for now. I guess I'll be back later with either a big long story, or maybe just a quick footnote quote from an inspiring manager that belonged to a lady I had found with a bleeding wrist in a cubicle - back when I was waiting at catering events.  

"Look, I dunno what could happen, but if it starts to bleed like that again then maybe take her outside. But Bel, somebody needs to remind the fucking bitch that nobody is across slides 4-18 and there is a hall of diners and donators about to start fucking entrees. Wipe up her wrists and hurry the FUCK UP".

He had no idea I was part of the catering staff. 

Just like I had no idea he could have had a beating heart underneath his fat cat exterior.