2Vouch has a new feature: widgets. A widget is a simple piece of code that you can copy paste into your website, so that it shows 2Vouch jobs.

Bloggers and Web Publishers

The widget has been designed to give you an opportunity to monetize your site and provide valuable content to your audience. The way it works is if someone applies to a job through a widget on your site and that person gets hired, you are tagged as the referrer and you get the reward. Simple as that. You can choose what type of jobs you want to show and what size widget you want to display.

Employers

The widget allows you to display vacancies that you’ve listed on 2Vouch anywhere on your site.

To get the widget go to www.2vouch.com, log in to your account and then click on Widgets

There you will see an example which you can modify if you like.

All you need to do then is copy paste a few lines to where you want the widget to go. The procedure is different for each platform, so here are some pointers:

• Wordpress (the important bit is “Text Widgets” at 2:40 in the presentation)
• Facebook
• MySpace

After that, you can just sit back, wait and let the cash roll in. We hope

Today there is a lot of good information freely available on the Internet. The trouble is not only how to find it but remembering where it is after you have found it.

Google helps solve the first part, but the second is not so easy.

Enter online bookmarking.

With online bookmarking, no matter where you are you can bookmark the site to come back to at a later date. While most browsers have the ability to bookmark pages, these sites have several advantages. First adding content no matter where you are or what computer you are using. Second they allow you to tag the links with key words so you can find them again. Finally they are social you can share links with friends.

These three advantages make tools like Delicious so powerful.

2Vouch has a Delicious account where we collect interesting links that relate to social recruiting, employee referrals and general career advice. You can explore our links and if you have an RSS reader you can subscribe to all our links, or subscribe just a specific tag such as SocialRecruiting. If you are a Delicious user you can add 2Vouch to your network and we share relevant links. You can see our links on the sidebar of the blog as well.

Delicious also allows you to see who else has bookmarked the same links and explore their bookmarks. Given you have both bookmarked the same item you probably have the same interests.

A final comment. Delicious also has private links, this allows you to privately share links between your friends within Delicious. As an employer or recruiter you could use this feature to tag potential candidates.

By Michael Specht, Consultant to 2Vouch on Social Media and Recruiting

By Riges Younan

I was contacted by David Campbell from lovedigital last week to get my views on how digital & social media is impacting the recruiting industry. Listen here

how do you think it’s impacting our industry?

By Riges Younan

With the increasing use of technology for the screening, matching and the sourcing part of the recruiting process your resume will increasingly not be read by a human until after it is read, parsed, and classified by a computer. So forget about the pretty graphics and nice borders because it may look like good to the hiring manager or recruiter but it looks like this ‘;anf;oasdfpoahs;gasfughv;asdnfg;asubfg;auhd’ to the computer (and just in case you are like me, not technical.. that’s not code.. it’s just me telling you that it’s a mess).

Here’s what to remember

1. You resume must be in Microsoft Word format. Not HTML, PDF, WordPerfect or RTF.

2. Looks are deceiving: Plain is good, Fancy is bad. No headers & footers, no graphics, no tables in Word, no fields in Word - and don’t use resume templates particularly resume templates from Microsoft (sorry Gatesy!)

3. Don’t mix font types or size for data. Sounds boring I know but it’s the actual content not the way that the content looks that’s important to recruiters and hiring managers.

4. Capitalisation does matter. Don’t use CAPS unless you need to.

5. See what your resume looks like in plain text. Resume systems convert the resumes into plain text and then they read and process plain text.

6. Contact info comes first. If you want a job, let people know how they can get in touch to chat.

7. Use common header terms to start resume sections. [Job Objective] [Education]

8. Don’t use columns or tables for formatting anything.

9. Keep like data in order. [Dates] [Company] [Position Title] [Description]

10. Do not combine sections.

11. Always end company names with common company name words. eg Pty Ltd, Inc, LLC, Ltd.

12. Omit page numbers.

13. Put skills into work history descriptions. eg: Sales, Developer, HTML, CSS, Management etc

14. Don’t put references on your resume, EVER.

These are some high level points. When you sign up as a member on 2Vouch there is a link to a much more detailed document with specific examples in the “Update My Profile’ tab.

We promise there won’t be this many posts every day, but hey, we are excited and it seems that there is a lot of interest in what we are doing

Thanks to Renai LeMay at Bootstrapper for this review.