For those of you with an iPhone there’s some great recruitment related application news.  Now Apps and i’s and phones are all double dutch to me, but my office monkey’s seem to think that this is a big deal.  The good people over at 1Job.co.uk have got their iPhone’s out and their app thinking caps on to come up with an app that will give you access to every single vacancy on their probably extensive database and the very best news?  It’s FREE!  We gave creating a Facebook app ago, why not check that out?

Tags: applications, iPhone, Recruitment

Jobsite have found Twitter.  Months after I became Twit-literate Jobsite have finally caught up.  You may be asking yourself ‘what use would a puppet (me, not Jobsite!) have with twitter‘, but you haven’t seen Mrs Hanson.  Anyway, I digress.  Jobsite have found Twitter and they’re determines to make every one of their 140 characters count.  In some sort of voodoo mumbo jumbo they’ve managed to create personal tweets to everyone that follows them.  Meaning if you befriend Jobsite, you’ll only be updated with the tweets that match your job hunting ambitions.  It’s amazing, and all this time I’ve just been trying to find boobs on Twitter. Here’s what Keith Potts had to say between Twitters: “As a Twitter user I know how frustrating it is to get an endless stream of irrelevant jobs constantly being sent to you. This is why we’ve developed our service on Twitter, to enable users to select their own criteria for the jobs they want to receive, including location and salary. They can also choose the frequency that they want to receive new jobs, which will always be sent to them as private tweets�.  For all those Twitter-Heads out there why not check out the Here Comes The Boss Twitter?

Tags: job hunting, Recruitment, social network, twitter

We know that bankers are throwing themselves out of windows and into the doll queue, but so far, the IT sector seems to have kept a low profile. Hooray then for the Recruitment and Employment Confederation and KPMG who have cobbled together a report claiming a dramatic fall in demand for IT staff in the UK. In fact last month’s fall was one of the largest single monthly drops in the IT industry’s history (which of course has been growing since inception). You can’t be surprised; if RBS is getting rid of 4,500 staff, that’s 4,500 less computers to turn off and on again. But once again, healthy perspective is required; demand may have fallen for IT support, but permanent IT staff were most in demand - after nursing - propped up by demand for software developers. IT is one of the sectors the government hopes will lead the UK out of recession, and be a skill we can export. We’re bloody good at developing, so keep the faith, but be prepared to show a little more charm, imagination and commitment than you’re used to. IT skills are one thing; IT skills backed up with the ability to talk to people take you to a whole other level.

Tags: graduate IT jobs, IT skills

Happy 5th Birthday to Facebook and thanks very much from all 150million of us for our mystery virtual gift. I got a Rabbit. That can’t be right. 5 years on, FaceAche is surely winning the battle for online friends and is working to make the most from its users who joined as a fad and now actively use the site. (Know any of them?) But over at the World Economic Forum in Davos the bosses of site have been touting ways to make their enormous database of personal information profitable. The firm still runs at a loss, having invested hundreds of millions of dollars in storage and bandwidth (tell me about it). Last year’s “Beacon� advertising scheme (turning users into sort of Ann Summers party organisers) didn’t work, so its time to use the information users have handed over in good faith. Corporations could target members in specific age groups and locations, and with specific interests. FaceBook? FocusGroup.

Tags: jobs with Facebook, Social Networking careers

The comical owners of the Daily Torygraph, brothers Sir Dave and Fred Barclay, have snapped up the Woolworths and Ladybird clothes brands and plan to re-launch it as an on-line only retailer. While it means the name wont disappear, many of the 30,000 staff jobs still will, but it will be good news to suppliers of Woolies products – especially own label items. This comes as no great surprise to me: I was always puzzled as to why Woolies didn’t have a better online presence to begin with. A trip to last week’s Retail Career Forum confirmed that online strength is crucial to a safe retail career. We saw it with our pals at asos, and last week we heard the River Island are about to shake up the online arena. New employer videos from the fair will be posted up as soon as it stops snowing.

Tags: fashion, Food and Drink retail, graduate jobs at River Island, jobs at asos, Retail