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Why You Must Have a Career Site, Vacation for Health, The Heart of Christian Husbandry

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Why You Must Have a Great Career Site

64% of candidates consider career sites their most valuable resource when researching new opportunities according to the Talent Board’s Candidate Experience Research Study.

Studies also show that career sites drive more hires than any other source.

If we sell anything online or if we just market online, we spend massive amounts of time and energy making sure the “customer experience” is just right.

But when it comes to the “careers/employment” pages of our websites we simply list the jobs and a link to whatever application engine we use. Plenty of employers do not even have career or job pages on their websites, despite knowing that attracting great talent is one of their top business challenges.

Here are a few more reasons to build a great career site for your organization.

Great People are Looking for Great Workplaces – Most people in the HR/People/Recruiting roles are overwhelmed with the quantity of applicants while the managers who need the people are frustrated by the lack of quality.

To deal with the resume overwhelm we have created systems to organize, filter and respond to applicants. But, we have also taken the life, spirit and culture of our workplaces out of our career sites.

The people you want to hire have loads of opportunities and will be using your website and your career page to determine if you are worthy candidate of their application. I know that sounds crazy, but why do you think it is so hard to find great people? Everybody wants them!

You career page is your opportunity to sell your workplace. Take advantage of it.

Filter – By displaying the culture and atmosphere of your workplace on your career page, you also have a great opportunity to attract the right people and repel the wrong ones. The people who want to apply to Patagonia are probably not going to be a great fit at IBM (at least the IBM of old).

Make sure that your potential applicants can tell if your workplace will be a great fit for them. You will save them and yourself a lot of wasted time and energy.

Search – By listing your job openings using the most searched keywords on your website, you can attract interested applicants directly to your site. Once they are there, you can sell them on why working at your place is so great. You also control the listing. On job search sites you are paying for placement and your listings will expire. On your site, you control the entire experience.

Next week we’ll look at some of the best career sites and how you can make yours the talent attracting magnet it deserves to be!

Health!

Strengthen Your Immune System with a Vacation?

Count me in!

That’s what a new study from Queen Mary University in London says. Of course, the study was done on mice but that is where all great discoveries begin, right?

Researchers found that by moving mice from their dull, standard surroundings to a great new habitat featuring a wider cage, wood shavings, and colorful toys they were able to dramatically spike the immune systems of the little guys. And this occurred in just two weeks!

Oh the price of being healthy – vacations, plush offices with nice views, work from the park policies….

You can check out more on this study here.

Life, Fun, Whatever!

The Heart of Christian Husbanding

“Husbands, love your wives as Christ loved the church and gave himself up for her.” – Ephesians 5:25

Do you ever feel overwhelmed by the apparent conflict between your duties to provide for your family, serve God and serve your family?

I know I do. That is why I found this new book from Ajith Fernado fascinating. Ajith has served in some form of ministry all of his life. Most of his service has been done in war torn Sri Lanka. All of this could and probably should cause an incredible strain on his family. But, Ajith has persisted in making happiness in his home his greatest ambition.

The folks at Desiring God, interviewed Ajith. Below are some of the great nuggets I got from the interview.

If you are a follower of Christ, we have a deep responsibility to keep our wives happy. If we do not, our children will know that she is unhappy and associate that unhappiness with following Christ.

Love is to be our greatest aim (1 Corinthians 14) and our wife is to be the first recipient of that love. It follows that making our wives happy should be our greatest ambition. Not a concession, but our passion.

In Deuteronomy 24, Israelite men were instructed to not go to war during their first year of marriage. Instead, they were called to focus on “bringing happiness” to their new bride. We are called to “bring” happiness at whatever personal cost may be required. We will probably be required to “give up” some of our personal ambitions (no matter how Godly they may be) to meet this goal.

Struggle is part of our ambition to become more like God. It is part of the process. Embrace it.

Debate is important in a happy family, but we must learn how to fight without hurting each other, without bruising each other.

Fight well = be truthful, do not insult, do not bring up the past (we forgave and forgot..), earnestly pray through the disagreement, ask for God’s wisdom.

I thought this interview was full of great wisdom for husbands. Check it out by clicking on the image below.