Are Your Consultants ATS Friendly?

We often tell our customers that 75% of large companies use an Applicant Tracking System (ATS).1 However, sometimes we are met with “what is an ATS system?” from many of our customers’ consultants. This troubles us. Hiring has changed. Employers now rely on Applicant Tracking Systems (ATS) to screen a higher volume of candidates while lowering administrative costs for their …

Google Jobs – Just Another Way to Sell More Ads

This post appeared originally on CEO Jeffrey Doucet’s LinkedIn page here. Last week, with much fanfare, and for some reason the support of the provincial government here in Ontario, Google Jobs launched their job board in Canada. We have received a lot of questions from customers and other partners about how we think this will impact the job search ecosystem, …

The Value of Customer Operations

This is part of a new series written by our Customer Operations Lead Connor McGee. Over the course of a few blog posts I’ll be sharing how providing strong Customer Operations has been a tremendous value add for CareerJSM. I will do so through 3 topics – What is Customer Operations, Our Tech Stack and ROI of Customer Operations. How …

Changing Social Hiring Resources & Business Models

This is part of a series written by CEO Jeffrey Doucet. Click for Part 1 and Part 2. *** In our last blog, we looked at how hiring resources have changed, and how they are contributing to poor job seeker behaviour. Next, we want to look at how social media has changed job search. We all have heard the stat …

Changing Hiring Resources

This is Part 2 in 3 part series written by Jeffrey Doucet, CareerJSM’s CEO. In October, Jeffrey was invited to Keynote at the Career Star Group annual conference in Lisbon, Portugal. This series of blog posts contain the key industry insights Jeffrey discussed as part of his talk. Click here for Part 1 in this series.   We know that …

The Changing Job Search Ecosystem

This is Part 1 of a 3 part series. Part 2 here. Written by Jeffrey Doucet, CEO. Introduction: A few weeks ago I was invited to Keynote the Career Star Group’s annual conference in Lisbon, Portugal. I was invited on behalf of our customer, Optimum Talent, who recently launched our software across the country (read more about that here). The …

Is Google Cloud Jobs the End of Job Boards?

550 words, 5 minute read. The short: Looking for a job is hard. Job seekers need to use a ton of hiring resources, and struggle to know which jobs they should actually apply for. Google is set to bring their world-leading search algorithms to the job search with Google Cloud Jobs API and we want to tell you what it …

Facebook jobs

Facebook Jobs: Not That Creepy, Pretty Useful.

Last week Facebook launched “Facebook Jobs” which is, in the most simple terms, a job board hosted on Facebook Business Pages. Starting now, a company like mine can quickly post a job and receive applications through Facebook. I had a couple questions about how the user experience would work, so this morning I decided to test it out. How it …