Jobs in Pods Blog

Jobs in Pods is pleased to annouce that Intel will soon be podcasting their jobs. They’ve recently signed on to a 15 podcast package. First up is Digital Marketing jobs which should be ready next week.

We’d like to thank Intel for being a ‘forward thinking‘ organization by turning to this new recruiting tool!

Our latest podcast with HEB on their accounting jobcast was a hit! Especially with Pamela O’Connor with whom we did the podcast with. She writes;

I just received an expected phone call from our Vice President / Controller.    She loves the pod cast and said that it is “outstanding”.   Thank you for making me “look”  (sound) so good!

Pamela

New recruiting campaign for Denver Hospital utilizes innovative audio interviews to attract talent.

(PRWEB) October 2, 2007 — Jobs in Pods, the web’s first ever podcast service for recruiting, announced today that Denver based Exempla Healthcare has begun a new recruitment campaign which highlights the different career opportunities inside one of Colorado’s top hospital systems. Exempla is the first such hospital system in the U.S. to utilize this new recruiting platform.

The first podcast, (aka “Jobcast”) published in late August, discusses their need for nurses and can be listened to at Jobsinpods.com (http://jobsinpods.com). In the second podcast, one of Exempla’s top nurses talks about what its like to work there. The third podcast features a discussion with CEO Jeff Selberg where he talks about the company culture and the kind of people they hire.

Gillian Sloan, Recruitment Manager for Exempla Lutheran Hospital spearheaded the effort. “We operate in a highly competitive labor market for skilled workers in the clinical and non-clinical areas. So, we have to be creative and “early adopters” in using technology such as this to reach out to future employees before the competition does! We hope this communicates to candidates that Exempla embraces a forward thinking approach in all aspects of business - from recruiting employees to delivering patient care”.

Future Exempla podcasts with employees are planned including those focused on clinical disciplines such as imaging, pharmacy, physical and occupational therapy.

“This is a great way to speak to the iPod generation of job seekers”, says Chris Russell, the founder of Jobs in Pods. “Exempla Healthcare is humanizing their jobs and connecting with job seekers in a medium they are comfortable with”, he adds.

The Exempla jobcasts represent one of many ‘firsts’ for the new startup. In July, Walgreens became the first retailer to podcast their jobs. Recently employers such as AT&T & Verizon Wireless have signed on. Even Red Robin Gourmet Burgers, a national restaurant chain, has begun jobcasting.

Russell contends that today’s generation of job seekers require a different approach to recruiting. “They don’t like dull, corporate-speak. They require unique and creative methods of communication. A podcast engages candidates much better than plain old text description”. Jobs in Pods also gives employers the ability to embed these podcasts on their corporate career sites.

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.

I built Jobs in Pods to be very flexible in terms of what you could with each jobcast.

Here’s an example of how 3 of our clients have integrated their podcast into their online career presence.

Time Warner Cable - San Diego: added their jobcast to their job description page so candiates can listen at end of description. View it

Zoominfo - created a slick integrated player on their career site. View it

Scalzo Real Estate - links to the audio file from the job description. View it

For a quick demo of Jobs in Pods call us at 800-399-6651 ext.101

We hooked up one of our first clients, Time Warner Cable in San Diego with the ability to post their jobcast directly on the job description for Residential Account Exec. It’s a great example of this technology in action. Job seekers just have to hit the button to hear it!

Jobs in Pods is pleased to announce that Time Warner San Diego, has signed on as a client. They will be have already done 1 jobcast and plan on doing several more.