Online Recruitment

Hey it's been a while since I've write my blog....Been busy working + Shopping + Meeting up friends + Mahjonging (opps bad habit kicks in..)




Anyway...was just browsing through the web and reading my Google Reader....not been in touch with Web 2.0 recently, so gotta catch up with what's happening around though..haha!...ok back to where we stopped, I was saying, was just browsing through the web and reading my Google Reader and I was quite impressed that people actually really used and been tested effective...to use Social Media tool to do Online Recruitment! Hey..and the success rate is as high as or even better than friend's referral value....which is more promising than recruitment firm!


Trust me...it's really an eye-opener and what's even better is that people around the world tried using different type of social media tools to do that...not just from the usual company websites or search executive database but even blogs, youtube, Twitter Facebook & even Wiki....

Facebook - From my Facebook, I typed in "Recruitment" in my search box under Groups and more than 3 pages full of results are found easily... so..I just got 2 which I think is quite interesting....

1. Recruitment in Hospitality Industry...a lot of their job posting is based in UAE...

2. Recruitment in Media Industry...all kind of media related job posting here...check out if you don't want to miss a chance in this industry!

Twitter - if you still don't know what is Twitter...then you are missing out all the fun and not Web + Tech Savvy enough! Now even a renown shoe company Zappos is heavily using it for recruitment....

Wiki - At first everyone only knows WikiPedia...now...even corporate use Wiki for internal communication...just go to http://www.wetpaint.com and type in "recruitment" in the search engine and Wala! Lots of recruitment wikis pops up! Enjoy....

After researching a bit... it seems to me that this trend is kicking into the recruitment industry so I tried to search for Asia or even just locally, Singapore....but guess what...

Although Singapore is a small country with all the high-tech infrastructure and promising talents but we are still very slow and conservative when trying to apply a new edge media or technology into our very own society

....what a controversial I must say....



So, I am thinking..let's say... I am a company trying to use Social Media or what we called Web 2.0 to do an Online Recruitment and you are at the same time looking for a job which I have to offer...which method do you think you will like best/choose or will first let you take note of this opportunity???



1. Company Website

2. Company Blog

2. Twitter

3. Wiki

4. Youtube

5. Facebook



Leave me a comment...I really will like to know what's your opinion on it especially in Singapore haha....

Western Media Impact on China Olympic & its growth

Recently, I've been research on one of my project on China's Reaction Towards Olympic Protest and after been going through news coverage and blogs on this issue, I've found out how social media has impacted the way we view information.

Extracted from http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/newspix/2008/03/17/latest-news-pics-mar-17-22-89520-20354503/

Traditionally, if you are to ask me to follow up on a current issue such as the Olympic Protest, that been debating around, I will probably feel that news articles and reports are the best way to get the "real" info. But after getting info not only from the usual news channel, but blogs and other online social media, I have deferred views.

From http://www.anti-cnn.com/, I found out how "distorted and biased" news coverage can be. It also provide us "truth" to a certain extents that tried to bring out the justice of such irresponsible news coverage by reputable channel such as US cable news network like CNN & BBC.

Extracted from http://www.anti-cnn.com/. For full content and coverage, go to http://www.anti-cnn.com/.

I think part of the root of these problematic news coverage can provide, are boiled down from the misperception of these previously reliable sources (such as CNN) has on the whole issue, which in return, articulate "biased" and even "distortion" views by the way they projected the issue to the public. These, as a result, caused huge resentment especially in the Chinese community as like most citizens, everyone still have a sense of pride about their own countries.

As such, there's 1 clear question that we should take away from the Olympic protest, that is, how reliable are news coverage? Are there people out there still blindly following these news as the "truth to light" or there might be something that we still do not know or have not been told to us?

So, what's your take? For me, it really changes the way I collect "true" info from news coverage...

Asian vs Westerner Perspective

Hey...it's me again! Today, after attending one of my summer term course on Social Media across Asia...it struck to me that more and more Asians have been blogging and this number is increasing gradually...as for the issues that they blog, it's mostly pertaining to personal interests like hobbies, food, etc...

But look at the westerners' blogs..a lot is on debating issues such as politics and current news!
I mean... from this blogging pattern, it seems that Asians care more about things that is personal to them, like sports or food for example while westerners care more about how they can make a different for the communities and the world as a whole...I mean that...there are still Asian people out there that cares and do blog them..but that number is seemingly small as compared to the westerners...

So, I'm thinking, are most Asians only bothered with things that only got to do with them? And I'm seriously agreeable on that... like for example...the global warming issue....it is very obvious that, this is simply a global issue.... I mean it concerns everyone since we are human and everyone lives on this mother earth... and of course, in order to survive and help our future generation to live on, it's everyone's effort to help to work on this environmental hot issue and the simplest thing to do (if everyone feels that it is their responsibility) is to help it deteroriate further by making a small change in your lifestyle...like using electrical fan than air-conditioning or save water by turning off ur tap immediately after use...
But we have seem report and watched news reporting on country that polluting the whole environment due to their heavy industrialized economy and is trying to shift the responsibility away by demanding leading countries to set as an example first...it seems like to me that these countries are looking for this kind of excuse as they are worried that by conforming to lower pollution emission will cause their whole industralized economy to slow down and they will not progress as fast as they should...

But from an environmentalist point of view, I just felt that's not right! I mean ...this is global issue...if the whole globe is to conform to these measures...then I see the pace of progress will slow down globally and the impact will be not the same as thought by these countries..

So, bringing back..me as an Asian individual...I personally will try my bit to help make this world a better place! And to kickstart..I have already help out by switching off my air-conditioning and choose to enjoy the summer breeze together with my electrical fan... So what about you?