Jobs in Pods Blog

In the interest of transparency we thought we’d share some of our latest stats from Jobsinpods.com. Here is a list of the top pages for the past 30 days. We’ve highlighted the top ten podcasts during that time period. Three TJX jobcasts have snagged 3 of the top 4 spots due to their promotional linking efforts from tjx.com.

When we launched our Youtube channel we had high hopes in terms of giving our “Jobcasts” more exposure. We have not been disappointed. This week it recorded its 10,000 view since it launched about 6 months ago. The top 5 audio jobcasts on our channel are as follows:

1. AT&T U-verse technician jobs in california - 1,004 views

2. What does an SAP Consultant do? IBM Jobcast - 951 views

3. Become a Business Analyst at Walgreens HQ in Deerfield, IL - 734 views

4. Restaurant Manager Jobs You’ll Love - 597 views

5. Career as an RN - Registered Nurse Jobcast - 596 views

Each of our Youtube versions gets tagged and described according to the jobs discussed. People come across it via Youtube searches, search engine traffic and other online sources.

We came. We saw. We impressed.

Last week Jobs in Pods exhibited in our first ever trade show at the SHRM Staffing & Management Conference in Nashville, TN. Our service received oohs and aahhs from those who stopped by our booth. Many people commented on how cool this was as a way to connect with the next gen workforce. One HR director even said to us we should patent our idea. Matt Adams of NAS Recruitment also mentioned Jobs in Pods as part of his presentation on making corporate career sites better. Thanks Matt!

So here’s a few pictures from our trip. You can find us next at the SHRM national conference in June in Chicago.

On Monday April 14, Jobs in pods will be exhibiting at our first ever trade show, the SHRM Staffing Management Conference & Expo. The show is sold out.

Almost 2,000 people are expected and we are very excited to be there. As we enter our 2nd year, its time for us to bring jobcasting to the rest of the HR community. You will also find us at the SHRM national conference in June.

The first year of Jobs in Pods has been a proving ground for innovative online recruiting. We have proven both the success of our service as well as the need for a new way to recruit online. We’ve heard more than once from corporate recruiters who say “I’ve been looking for something exactly like this“.

In essence, our product will humanize your company by bringing your culture and jobs to life. 2008 is already shaping up to be a great year for us. We expect our sales to triple this year as more employers dip their toes into the waters of social media recruiting.

Jobs in Pods will be in booth #216.

On the 2nd installment of the Social Media Recruiting Radio Show Ben Yoskovitz and I will be talking about recruiting blogs with Dennis Smith of WirelessJobs.com. We’ll get the inside scoop on one of the most successful recruitment blogs on the web and take your calls.

Listen online at http://www.blogtalkradio.com/SocialMediaRecruiting

Got a question for Dennis? Email them to chris [at] jobs in pods dot com or call in during the show at (347) 945-5971.

We’d like to welcome the newest Jobcaster to the Jobs in Pods team. Sarah Rourke is a UK podcaster who will be bringing her unique voice (and lovely accent) to the world of Jobcasting.

BIO: A trained broadcast journalist, Sarah Rourke has worked in both commercial and BBC radio, starting her broadcasting life in her native North of England before venturing to London to work in production at the BBC World Service. After leaving the BBC Sarah qualified as a coach and now combines her journalism and production experience with her coaching skills. She now runs her own company,Audio Pod Artist, which helps solopreneurs and businesses to get their voices into the heads of their prospective clients via podcasting and web audio.

Our first ever Social Media Recruiting radio show went very well. Looks like we had about 48 live listeners in the noon hour. Listen to the archived show here.

Next show: March 20th, 12noon EST: The ins and outs of starting a recruiting blog

On Thursday March 6th at 12 noon, we will be starting a new internet radio call-in show about all things social media recruiting.

Ben Yoskovitz (Standoutjobs.com) and Chris Russell will be your hosts. The show will be broadcast twice monthly, probably on the 1st and 3rd Thursdays of the month. Each show will be run an hour from 12-1 eastern standard time to allow people to listen at the lunch hour.

The goal of this program is to educate HR people and recruiters on the evolving social media landscape as it pertains to recruiting. We encourage anyone interested to call in and ask questions about things like Facebook, Youtube, blogging or any other web 2.0 technology that can help you recruit.

Next Thursday’s show will focus on general trends in social media recruiting, including a discussion of our recruiting starfish. Ben will opine on “recruiting as a marketing effort” — which would encompass a discussion on the tools marketing people have at their disposal for selling products and services and how that can be applied to recruiting practices.

So please tell your colleagues and tune in to our first show! It can be found on BlogTalkRadio;

http://www.blogtalkradio.com/SocialMediaRecruiting

We have updated our case studies which can now be found on the main Jobs in Pods site on the top navigation. The NCO case study has been updated and their is a new one from AT&T. Each one comes with a downloadable PDF file for later use.

http://jobsinpods.com/case-studies/

For those of you who rather follow our jobcasts from our YouTube channel we’ve set up a handy YouTube RSS button for you to subscribe with. With one click you can add our feed to your favorite RSS reader.

Our YouTube channel has been a nice success for us generating over 1400 views since launching about 6 weeks ago Every jobcast (as long as they are under 10 min long) gets published on YouTube in order to provide extra exposure for our clients.