Our weekly web mingle is designed to give you some insight into the puzzling world of HR technology, discuss news from around the world that we find interesting, talk about upcoming events in our industry, and provide insightful interviews with people of our industry – who they are, what they do and why you should care. The WebMingle has become the most popular live weekly Internet show in the HR technology industry!
So what is a WebMingle? It is a meeting over the web where we do some business, socialize and yes, we mingle over the web. Thus, a WebMingle.
The 50-minute WebMingle on July 31st, the 29th in our WebMingle series, featured Paul Forster, CEO and co-Founder, and Jason Whitman, VP of Client services with Indeed. It was another fantastic WebMingle as Paul and Jason have tremendous insights and passion around online job search and the technology behind it. We touched on a number of issues related to that including:
- The difference between a search engine (which Indeed.com is) and a job board
- How Indeed is helping companies with their recruiting
- The types of companies that are gravitating toward Indeed and their formula for success
- Kinds of information and analytics on traffic that companies can see about their jobs
- How companies are measuring the ROI of their advertising on Indeed
- What some of the challenges are with shifting companies’ mindsets from pay-per-post to pay-per-click recruitment advertising
- Great information about the composition of the Indeed.com site’s overall traffic and how different industries are doing
- …and more
About Indeed
Indeed, Inc. was founded in 2004 with the aim of radically improving online job search. The company pioneered the application of a true search engine methodology to jobs and, with the beta-launch of Indeed.com in November 2004, immediately became the most comprehensive job search service on the Web. The company was quickly recognized as an industry leader both in trade and business media. Indeed.com was selected by Time magazine as one of the “Top 10 Websites” for 2007. The company and its impact on online job search have also been profiled in The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, San Francisco Chronicle, The Washington Post, The Financial Times, The Boston Globe, and Money Magazine.
About Paul Forster, CEO and Co-Founder
Paul Forster is CEO and co-founder of Indeed, an award-winning search engine for jobs. Since 2004, Indeed has given job seekers free access – instantly, in a single search – to millions of jobs from thousands of company websites, job boards, newspapers, blogs and associations. Paul previously co-founded Jobsinthemoney, the leading finance jobsite.
About Jason Whitman, VP of Client Services
For more than 10 years, Jason Whitman has specialized in recruitment marketing and technology, working with clients to develop award-winning recruiting campaigns and career Web sites. At Indeed.com, Jason focuses on client education, measurement and tracking, helping clients monitor the ROI of their online recruitment advertising and understand the performance of their Indeed pay-per-click advertising campaigns.
If you missed this past week’s WebMingle, or any of our past WebMingles, please visit our web site at www.HRWebMingle.com. You will see a complete list of upcoming guests and will be able to listen to past shows.
Our next WebMingle will take place on August 7 with Joseph Impastato, President of nowHIRE, an Applicant Tracking Systems vendor. We look forward to welcoming Joseph to the HRchitect WebMingle next week.
We hope to have you join us!
Matt Lafata, HRchitect
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