Jobs in Pods Blog

Nations Restaurant News (nrn.com), the largest magazine for the restaurant industry has written a story about Jobs in Pods. Dina Berta, an editor with the magazine contacted us last week regarding the idea of podcasting your jobs.

TRUMBULL , CONN. (Jun. 1 —In the never-ending search for talent, some restaurant companies are considering podcasting as a way to attract young employees.

Chris Russell, creator of AllCountyJobs.com , an online job board for open positions in Fairfield County, Conn., recently launched JobsInPods.com , a website that allows employers to create online audio messages about their businesses for potential job applicants to download to their MP3 players or iPods.

The concept created a buzz at the “Meeting of the Minds” recruiting conference for chain operators held recently in Dallas. Companies such as Greenwood Village, Colo.-based Red Robin Gourmet Burgers have expressed interest in the program, according to podcast purveyors. A spokeswoman for Red Robin confirmed that the full-service restaurant is investigating the use of podcasts for recruitment but declined to comment further.

Continued at NRN.com 

Retailer Walgreens will become our first national retail client. In mid-July we’ll be doing our first jobcast with them centered around Pharmacy careers. Stay tuned!

Jobs in Pods is pleased to announce a new client in the form of Idaho National Labs, a Department of Energy subsidiary. They recently completed their first jobcast which you can listen to here. They are constantly on the search for nuclear and chemical engineers and a variety of other technical positions and thought jobcasting was a great way to communicate their opportunities.