Special Summer Offer for Jobs in Pods Clients!

At Jobs in Pods, we’re celebrating summer, and our benchmark of 800,000 plus downloads of “the only podcast where you can hear real employers — leading recruiters and staffing agencies talk about their jobs and tell you how to get them” — with a special offer for all the great Jobs in Pods clients we’ve had the pleasure to work with over the past year!

As you probably know, each of our jobcasts are posted for one full year from the date of publication, with an option to renew for an additional year for only $99!

For our existing Jobs in Pods clients, when you order a new jobcast during the month of August, 2011 — we will extend one of your current jobcasts for an additional year — for free!

Here’s the best part: There’s no limit to this offer! If you have 5 current Jobs in Pods “jobcasts” on jobsinpods.com, and order 5 new productions during the month of August, we will extend your 5 current shows for another year, from their date of publication — for free!

Although you won’t be required to produce your new shows in August, they must be pre-paid, and some time restrictions do apply, depending upon the number of new jobcasts that are ordered.

Give us a call at 203-292-0012 and we’ll be happy to share the details!

800,000 jobcast downloads

That is what we believed would happen when we launched this jobcast service 4 years ago in the online recruiting world. And that is what happened. Listeners came in droves and our clients reaped the benefits of humanizing their companies. One podcast (aka jobcast) at a time.

Today we are proud to announce that Jobs in Pods has produced almost 200 jobcasts that have now been listened to almost 800,000 times. Thats an average of 200,000 downloads each year. Over 283,000 of that number come directly from our Youtube channel located at youtube.com/jobsinpods.

The goal of each jobcast we produce is to humanize your company by letting your employees speak for themselves. Whats it like to work there? Whats the best part about your job? Why should a potential candidate apply? These are the kinds of questions we ask. These are the kinds of answers job seekers want (and frankly deserve to hear).

Perhaps the most surprising thing about Jobs in Pods is how quickly it was adopted by the Fortune 500 companies. Firms like GE, IBM, Walgreen, McDonald’s, Nestle were among the first to use our service. Tech giant Intel has been our most prolific client. They have done more than 20 jobcasts and generated over 100,000 downloads of their audio. Much of this engagement has been driven by a dedicated podcast page setup internally on their career portal. They have been ecstatic about the results by getting hires, showcasing their employees and building their employment brand.

As we move forward into the recruitosphere we encourage your firm to pick up the jobcast momentum and try a jobcast or two. Think of them as your own career radio show on demand. Lets Jobs in Pods make you a star and bring your jobs to life.

Call Peter Clayton, Sr Jobcaster to get started at 203-292-0012 or go to jobsinpods.com

Jobs in Pods Media Kit Released

Jobs in Pods is pleased to announce its 2011 Media Kit. Now available for download as a PDF.

JobsinPods Media Kit-Pricing 2011

Latest internet podcast stats

Edison Research has recently published The Current State of Podcasting, a study of American podcast consumers’ attitudes and behaviors. The 2010 report is Edison’s fifth annual study and was unveiled earlier this fall at Blogworld in Las Vegas.

Here’s the skinny;

* Percentage of Americans who have ever watched or listened to a podcast is 45%, up from 43% one year ago. This equates to approximately 70 million Americans 12+.

* The podcast audience has migrated from being predominantly “early adopters” to more closely resembling mainstream media consumers.

* Two-thirds of podcast consumers have listened to digital audio files in their vehicles by connecting an iPod or other MP3 player to their car audio system.

* Podcasts are being consumed primarily at the computer, and less frequently than last year via the mobile device or “dedicated media player” like the iPod or Zune.

You can watch a presentation of this report here:
http://player.vimeo.com/video/16936611

The Current State Of Podcasting from Tom Webster on Vimeo.

Ch…Ch…Changes

Change is good.

Peter Clayton

Today we’re announcing that Peter Clayton, our longtime Senior Podcaster is being promoted to Senior Jobcaster & Producer. He will head all activities of Jobs in Pods and client accounts. If you are a client of ours Peter will be reaching out to you in the coming weeks to re-introduce himself to you.

Our President & Founder Chris Russell will head ‘behind the scenes’ to focus on special projects.

Congrats to Peter.

Long live jobcasting!

1 way to jump start your company twitter account

via Twitip: Most companies have joined Twitter by now but there are a few that have lagged behind. If you’re a part of this group (as my company was), it can be really intimidating to jump into the social media scene when your competitors already have established accounts with hundreds (or thousands) of followers. I used these techniques to jump my new account from 0 to 350 followers in one month, bypassing the awkward infancy period of a new Twitter account almost entirely.

Continue reading on Twitip

What I know About Getting A Job: Penelope Trunk

Our senior jobcaster Peter Clayton just completed a humorous interview with one of the top hr bloggers Penelope Trunk…its a great listen.

Click here to download or hear it.

GE Careers and Facebook

Since we’ve been following GE Careers on facebook we’ve been impressed with how they have been using it to recruit. Case in point: Engaging Candidates Directly through job webinars.

The key word here is ‘engagement’. Facebook is a great tool for that and GE is taking full advantage. Their fan page now has over 1,200 “subscribers” whom GE can message anytime they wish. Their “Meet our People” posts are also a great example of facebook engagement.

Nice job GE.

April download stats: crushing it!

The month of April saw a record number of downloads for Jobs in Pods customers.

The tally was nearly 8,000 downloads, almost doubling since the beginning of the year.

Official numbers: April Downloads: 7,796

And how are people consuming our shows? The vast majority come via the web.

Stats for your facebook fan page

If your company has a facebook fan page then you have new stats to help track its ROI. Facebook has recently rolled out a weekly email report that tells you the basic interaction happening with your page. Here’s an example of what ours looks like.

We dont know why it took so long for them to roll this feature out. Its a much needed addition for companies to help track the benefits of using these social media pages. Now you have a little more info to show your management when it comes to proving ROI.