Comments on: Online Employer Reputation Monitoring

By: Ben Stone

Ben Stone — Fri, 10 Apr 2009 16:03:14 +0000

I agree in spades that the first step is a measurement of the current employer brand. If a company were really interested in it’s current employer brand they would hire someone to do informational interviews with past employees who left the company and candidates who were not chosen for past positions. These are 2 groups who are likely to give some solid information concerning the perception of the company

By: Riges Younan

Riges Younan — Sun, 05 Apr 2009 05:26:20 +0000

Hi Shannon,

Great post, and I couldn’t agree more. It seems you and i (although on opposites sides of the world) have been preaching about social recruiting for some time now. Interestingly enough coming at it from completely different angles. You from an employer branding/ online reputation perspective, and I from a job distribution and candidate sourcing perspective.

We described our company 2Vouch as a social recruiting platform in early 2007 and people were looking at me very strangely. I am amazed by how the term social recruiting has been adopted by our industry.
I really enjoy your blog/tweets and you’re doing a great job evangelizing social recruiting.

@rigesyounan

By: Julian Meteor

Julian Meteor — Mon, 26 Jan 2009 08:44:07 +0000

This is FASCINATING. I blogged about something vERY similar last week. I had been refused a job because I was checked out online and my potential employers didn’t like what they saw from a Google search:
http://julianmeteor.blogspot.com/2009/01/google-problem.html

I am still unemployed and wish I could delete all my stuff from Google

By: kiran

kiran — Sun, 21 Dec 2008 18:42:28 +0000

Good post about Online Employer Reputation Monitoring.
Thanks!!!

By: Employee-activity-monitor

Employee-activity-monitor — Thu, 18 Dec 2008 03:51:46 +0000

Online employee monitoring is important too

By: Jobirn

Jobirn — Wed, 17 Dec 2008 22:37:38 +0000

Cool, make Q&A widget for company to show its insider may be cool I love it!

-Willian

By: Cari

Cari — Thu, 23 Oct 2008 20:55:21 +0000

“Without first listening to and understanding what people are already saying about you as an employer, without knowing what issues exist or topics that are already being discussed – your company is in no position to begin effectively participating.”

I am so glad you said that. I think a lot of companies forget this incredibly important first step to monitoring reputation online. We monitor, measure, and get involved in relevant online conversations for small and medium businesses. But before we start participating in conversations, we listen to what is being said and determine how best to respond.

Cari
Buzz.io

By: Employee-computer-monitoring

Employee-computer-monitoring — Thu, 23 Oct 2008 09:42:48 +0000

Besides monitoring employer reputation.
Monitoring employees computer use is more important
56.5% of employees feel that surfing the Net or sending non-work-related E-mails decreases productivity, and 31% of employers said that they restrict employee Internet/E-mail usage. (Vault.com survey)

By: joe

joe — Thu, 23 Oct 2008 09:11:46 +0000

Link Building

By: Barry Simpson

Barry Simpson — Wed, 22 Oct 2008 20:35:21 +0000

A few years ago ‘Reputation’ was the buzz word. The way in which we could remove spam form the web and make certain that we are who we say we are.

Unfortunately this has not managed to penetrate the market to the level of it’s importance.

However, back to your post. Reputation is a two way street and while there is, without doubt a move towards searching for candidates on line by companies through various social and business networking sites there is often a lack of understanding by the individuals that the Internet Lives On, as does every word ever posted to it.

As an Outplacement consultant I work with my clients to make sure that their reputation is as clean as it can be and all job seekers need to do the same.

Please keep up the fight

Barry at VirtualOutplacement.com
- Your personal job-search assistant

By: David Alston

David Alston — Wed, 22 Oct 2008 05:58:31 +0000

Hey there Shannon & Julian,

Glad you brought this topic up as not many have yet. Monitoring around a company’s rep for recruitment purposes is definitely a great application of listening online. I had pointed out “looking for new recruits” (by monitoring for keyword phrases that may help find people you want to hire full-time or as contractors) in one of the posts on our Radian6 blog but you bring up an excellent point on also staying close to what people are saying about a company from a “is it a great place to work” perspective. What’s the first thing any person should and generally would do before applying for a job at a company – they Google it. And if half of the top hits are consumer generated (which they could be) and they aren’t good then a person could decide not to bother.

Looking forward to more discussions on this in the future. Thanks for getting the thinking going in this area.

Cheers. David

PS> Thanks for the Radian6 shout out as well

By: Employee activity monitor

Employee activity monitor — Wed, 22 Oct 2008 05:18:37 +0000

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