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Thomas Shaw is the Founder and Managing Director of Recruitment Directory, which is an online directory of talent providers and systems across Australia & New Zealand. It also provides consulting services to Recruitment Agencies, Job Boards and Employers on 5 key areas such as Talent Sourcing, On Boarding, Workforce Management, Employee Engagement and Management Systems.

With both a IT and HR background, Thomas has recently created various social networking applications and creating recruitment strategies integrating Web 2.0 tools into daily recruitment use. Previously, he has worked as an IT Recruitment Consultant across leading financial organisations, before beginning his career in Organisational Development. For more information please visit http://www.recruitmentdirectory.com.au



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Recruitment Directory Stand out from the crowd - Using Embedded Objects in Job Ads
3:30pm Tuesday 17 August 2010 - Recruitment Directory

Have you ever wanted to add a video, slideshare presentation, a chat room or some other 3rd party media objects into your job ads? Nearly all job board software restricts the advertiser from placing HTML embedded code into job ads. So, wouldn't it be cool if you can just paste a URL and it automatically creates the embedded object without having the user copy and paste the code?
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Recruitment Directory IT Video Resume - Killa Appz
5:35pm Monday 09 August 2010 - Recruitment Directory

Dave Berzack, a freelance web developer, created this music video about web development. He raps along to the paper planes track about his skills to pay the bills. Certainly stands out amongst a pile of CV’s. There’s not much else I can add to this... Just watch the video!
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Recruitment Directory OWASP Top 10 and your Recruitment Website - Part 1
9:30am Monday 09 August 2010 - Recruitment Directory

OWASP has recently updated their list of the top 10 most prevalent security vulnerabilities. Since this list covers all major aspects of computer security it is interesting to check what are the issues that are relevant to a typical recruitment website or job board and (exercising the 80/20 rule) what are the key questions we should ask ourselves (or our IT/security staff) to be sure that we don't miss anything critical.
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Recruitment Directory Data Applications and Infrastructure at LinkedIn
2:16am Friday 06 August 2010 - Recruitment Directory

At a recent presentation by Jay Kreps of LinkedIn at the Hadoop Sumit 2010. Jay describes how LinkedIn crunches 120 billion relationships per day and blends large scale data computation with high volume, low latency site serving.
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Recruitment Directory How to confuse a job seeker - Part 2
3:28pm Monday 02 August 2010 - Recruitment Directory

Following on from our previous article on How to confuse a job seeker... Step 1. Create a complex and "unique" classification list Step 2. Expect the job seeker to select the correct item from the list
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Recruitment Directory 2010 Email Marketing Benchmark Report - HR/Recruitment Sector
2:55pm Monday 02 August 2010 - Recruitment Directory

The latest Sign-Up.to 2010 UK Email Marketing Benchmark Report (Q1 & 2) analysed over 200 million email marketing messages sent through their online marketing platform in the 6 months from 1st January - 30th June 2010. The breakdown of statistics by sector did not paint a very flattering picture for the HR/Recruitment industry.
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Recruitment Directory Plan for the worst
6:00am Wednesday 28 July 2010 - Recruitment Directory

It's every business owner's worst nightmare - What would happen if we lost all our data? Goodbye thousands of candidate records. Goodbye client lists and financial information. Instead of pointing the finger and blaming someone else, do you have plans in place to backup your data in the first place?
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Recruitment Directory Log in with LinkedIn
8:30am Monday 19 July 2010 - Recruitment Directory

We have released "Log in with LinkedIn" functionality across a number of our client job boards and recruitment agency websites. This is a first for the Australian & New Zealand recruitment industry that allows users to use their existing LinkedIn details to Register/Login with another site.
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Recruitment Directory Search Jobs by Salary Range
4:00pm Sunday 18 July 2010 - Recruitment Directory

SEEK has released an updated search box that allows users to specify salary ranges. Although this "search by salary range" function is not new to the online recruitment industry. We wanted to have a look at a number of different ways your job board or recruitment agency can offer this function.
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Recruitment Directory Mobile Recruitment Websites - Keep it simple
3:18pm Tuesday 13 July 2010 - Recruitment Directory

Does your Job Board or Recruitment Agency website need a native iPhone, Android or BlackBerry application? More than likely the answer will be no. Save your money. You don't need to spend upwards of $5k+ for a single native application. But what you do need is a mobile enabled website.
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