No you don't !!

Here are some of the best job board ads you are ever likely to see.  They feature a little Gordon Ramsay and are done by Caterer.com - a job board for the hospitality industry.

Next time you hear someone banging on about the role of Facebook or MySpace in recruitment you might like to point them to this little video.  Very funny.

These pics were sent in tonight from a mobile phone in North Sydney train station.  This is the main billboard as you get off the platform.

Just when you thought it was safe to go back to the train station up pops our old mate Axel from Jobs.com.au....

The person who sent this in asked "I wonder how far in advance they pre booked this slot?", but our feeling is they have probably just scraped off a few old ads and accidentally unveiled this old beauty.








(for those who missed this ad campaign first time around this was a series of TV, radio and outdoor ads run by the then Jobs.com.au web site.  The site didn't last long but the ads hold a very special place in history...)

We've seen some crackers in recent times but this one is a Friday afternoon special.

You will need a beer in your hand and your speakers on for this one.

Click on the image below, then click through the pages for more.

Has anyone else noticed the irony of the recently tangled Ninemsn/SEEK/eBay/CareerOne web?

- Ninemsn and SEEK are CML stable mates

- eBay sits right beside Jobs in the menu bar on Ninemsn

- eBay is in bed CareerOne.

In short we have one of Australia's largest online portals enjoying a threesome with 2 of Australia's largest job boards. 

Perfectly acceptable if not a little bemusing.

Another story this morning of a snake behaving very badly...

This is why we didn't call it JobPython. 

Recruiters - be very careful how you treat your rejects candidates lest they turn evil and flame you on Facebook...

A Facebook group called "I F#CKING HATE Recruitment Agencies, they don't help u, they r useless" is using Facebook to showcase their superior literacy and vocabulary skills by articulating concerns with recruitment practices online. 

A few classic quotes from members of the group:

"all i want to say is arrrrrrrrrrrrrrrggggggghhhhhhrrrrrrr. worse than public transport, worse than politicians, worse than rude bailiffs who threaten small children and worse than traffic wardens...yes it's job agents. patronising, cloth eared, two faced liars. the (almost) lot of them"

"god damn vampires. i swear if they tell me "sorry, its all a bit quiet" or "just put your name on the availbles list" thats already got like 10,000 names on it once more i WILL kill one of them useless pricks."

Given that recruiters now commonly check out candidates on social networks during the recruitment process I would think these gifted individuals are not doing much to help their cause....

AFAICT TXT LNGE DNB IN JOB ADS.  AOAS IT S2B OK FOR PPL TO PUT TXT IN2 JOB ADS.  @TEOTD IT IS NTEOTW AND IT IS PAND THO A PITA IF U R A NOOB.  OMG WE !!

OK I am exhausted - that really took it out of my 30 something year old brain!  Kiddies please bear in mind WDASURL (old person guessing the SMS for "We don't all speak your language".  It's probably a real one but WCFBB checking :)

It was an interesting exercise to check a few SMS words on major job boards to see how often some of these words are appearing. Unfortunately a little too often for my taste.

Below are a few real life examples from Australian job boards....

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Anyone interesting in learning a new language can visit the SMS Dictionary here.

This tinytinytiny JobsJobsJobs car....

Our friendly adder would NEVER do anything like this. The story below is in today's Cairns Post.

Deadly snake bites man's penis

Thursday, May 29, 2008

© The Cairns Post

 

A ROADSIDE toilet stop ended in pain, embarrassment and almost death for a tourist when a highly venomous snake bit the end of his penis.

The deadly brown snake slithered between his legs and lunged at his manhood as he crouched on a roadside near Laura, 300km northwest of Cairns, about a month ago.

Details of the incident only came to light yesterday after they were confirmed by a paramedic.

"It certainly had a swipe at him," an ambulance spokesman said yesterday.

"But it didn’t envenomate him.

"As it came through it must have got a bit of a shock."

The snake beat a hasty retreat, leaving its victim with a scratch, vomiting and abdomen pain.

Emergency workers raced to the scene to treat the man.

The wound was wrapped in plastic in case poison had penetrated the skin but medical staff gave the man the all-clear after conducting tests.

He was taken to Cooktown Hospital where he spent a night recovering.

The ambulance spokesman described him as "lucky", given his near encounter with one of Australia’s most poisonous snakes.

"I think he was a bit shocked and embarrassed," he said.

This one is too good not to share.  The oft criticised CareerBuilder.com briefly re-released this controversial but very funny promotional video this week.  Thanks to Cheesman for this little pearl.

Click the pic below to watch the video...



Can you imagine one of the stodgy old Australian job boards putting out something like this? 

We have written before about the pitfalls of producing company employment videos and here is yet more proof that you should be very careful when putting together your next you-beaut company video. 

If you work with a bunch of dorks and you put a dorky video together that tells the whole world what dorks you are then just bear in mind it may not produce the results you were hoping for.

Sources today are reporting that News Ltd and Fairfax Digital are joining forces to form a new job board called MyOne.com.au.  MyOne will bring together all the best features of CareerOne and MyCareer to form a potent combination.  The new business is rumoured to be adopting the slogan "simply second" - a humorous but appropriate spin on MyCareer's "simply jobs" tag line.

Recruiters are today breathing a collective sigh of relief as the new site will put to bed the endless squabbles over who is in second place and who is third.  MyOne will be in an unassailable second position and are said to be happy to accept that position till death do they part.

Sources say job listings on the new web site are expected to be priced at around $1 an ad. 








(this story may or may not be fictitious. Please do not stampede us with requests to have the new job board enabled on your JobAdder account)

The only thing worse than cartoon socks in an interview is no socks at all.  We just had a person turn up here for an interview and he had a suit on and nice black shoes but no socks!!  Just bare, hairy ankles!  No one noticed until he sat down - then everyone who walked past could see his hairy ankles through the strip of non frosted glass at the bottom of the meeting room wall.

I don't know about you but I find that repulsive.  I don't even like it when a bloke sits down and you can see his hairy legs above his socks. 

I can just imagine the conversation he had with his wife this morning. 

Gross guy : "Marj have you seen my socks?  I have an interview today and I really need them"
Poor wife : "No sorry Bruce I haven't seen them. You've got 2 pairs, do you mean the grey ones or the brown ones?"
Gross guy : "Never mind I have to run to the train - no one will notice"