It’s ZaaBiz…

- Another shouts, “Vee look like Frrreeaks!

There’s viskers growing on our cheeks!”

A boy who vos extremely tall

Cries out, “Vot’s wrong.  I’m growing small!”

- Extract from The Witches by Roald Dahl

Ve’re all speaking vith an accent here at the office.  Been having a look at ZaaBiz, a new Biz networking site that offers social referral recruiting (SRR) tools. (see my profile) Nothing new, I can hear you all shout, 2Vouch and Hoojano are also chucking their hats into the ring where this is concerned.  The difference with the team at ZaaBiz, though, is that their service is free, and leveraging the growing numbers of Tweeters on Twitter.  And being free, their concept is a little more subtle than the referral service offered by its monetised competitors.

I’ve put a few of my jobs on there…testing the waters.

I vill keep you posted about zaa results.

2Vouch Goes Beta

I’ve discussed 2vouch on this Onrec blog already back in February Vouching For 2Vouch . Today they launched in Beta. Congratulations.

Social referral sites such as 2vouch and Hoojano(which launched some months back) will be a prominent aspect of how we recruit into the future. The idea is nothing new, as indicated by the old adage 2vouch has chosen to adopt as their motto, “It’s not what you know…” (initially they had a genie as part of their campaign. I wanna know where the genie’s gone:)). Being social creatures, we communicate with one another. Being creatures ruled by the ego, we like to be “in the loop”, and being creatures driven by economic concerns, we like to make money. 2vouch satisfies all the needs.

Recruiters pay referral fees to people who give them a lead on a placement. 2vouch is merely formalising this already-existing convention.

Online recruitment has placed some jobs on 2vouch, to give it a go. Stay tuned for how that’s tracking…I wish, I wish (picture me rubbing the magic lantern here) for several successful job placements….

Where’s the Genie??