Now featuring transcripts

Jobs in Pods has added a new feature to its jobcasts, Full Text Transcripts.

Available for an additional fee of $49 per jobcast, the transcripts of the entire interview will be listed below the audio. This will make the jobcast even more search engine friendly since SE’s like Google and Bing love this type of content. It will also allow job seekers to quickly “scan” the audio for interesting sections.

See it in action here.

Latest stats from Jobsinpods.com

Downloads via Jobsinpods.com have been steadily increasing for months. Since we have switched to a new hosting platform for our audio we’ve been able to see the big picture of where and how our jobcasts are being consumed.

October Downloads: 3,293
November (in progress): 3,803
Downloads (June-Nov): 14,611

As you can see November has been our best month ever. Of the total downloads since June, 85.2% of downloads came from websites while 12.5% came from our iTunes channel.

a video about social media ROI

Thanks to Jenny DeVaugn, a social media trainer for pointing out this video about how to view social media and ROI. We think its a must watch.

Tivo creates Linkedin group for recruiting

Tivo is utilizing Linkedin groups to…recruit.

new Jobs in Pods presentation video

We just published a new version of our presentation video. In 7 minutes it will tell you most of what you need to know about our audio jobcasting process. For a more in depth look at our service call 203.572.2053 to set up an online demo. http://jobsinpods.com/

Facebook recruiting with SMS

The world of mobile recruiting is still a nascent one but Facebook fan pages have a way to use SMS right now that is free and easy to use. If your company has a fan page on Facebook we suggest you begin to use and promote SMS updates to potential candidates and promote your latest jobs.

74% of users have positive impression of companies who use new media

Here is further proof that if you use new media to communicate to your customers your company will have a much more favorable impression. Research firm eMarketer released this latest info which caught our eye. Podcasting your jobs is a perfect example of new media in action.

To succeed the article says: “If companies are going to be a mainstay in new media, they’re going to have to realize consumers expect more than a passive existence,” said Mike Hollywood, Cone’s director of new media, in a statement. “New media are about experience, dialogue and immediacy. There was a time when just being in new media got you the gold star for effort. But consumers are continually refining their expectations and more and more are looking for specific interactions.”

Great examples of social media recruiting #1 Intel

Intel’s employment branding commercial is now playing on TV and of course Youtube, so it counts as social media recruiting.

This might be the first ever employment branding spot we’ve ever seen on regular TV (by a corporation). It looks to be part of a new ad campaign that we really love. It’s positioning themselves as a “cool” place to work, unlike any other. Nice job Intel!

PS…they do podcasts too!

Ritz-Carlton jobcast fastest to 1,000 downloads

We are pleased to announce our newest record holder for downloads on Jobs in Pods.

The recent Ritz-Carlton jobcast has reached 1,000 downloads in 3 weeks!

If you podcast, they will listen

Jobs in Pods now on Stitcher Radio

We’re happy to announce a new distribution channel for Jobs in Pods. Its called Stitcher Radio. Its a cool app for your smartphone (iphone or blackberry) that lets you hear shows without downloading them. Instead it streams them to your device on demand.

Its becoming an on demand world and thats why podcasts are so popular. You can consume then WHENEVER YOU WANT. People are busy these days. On demand shows help them time-shift.