BeamME This application allows you to create and share personal or business type cards including logos, themes and custom styles to any phone or computer. It allows the user to make new contacts, add them to address book, network and follow them on sites like twitter, LinkedIn, Facebook etc. It allows you to choose and share the information which you select. It provides the complete history about the person giving details about who, when and where you contacted.

CareerBliss Provides Job Search, company information, salaries, interview tips, job alerts and many more.

LinkUP This iPhone app search engine lists jobs directly from the company websites which are also sometimes hidden jobs as they are not published outside. These have around 20,596 companies listed in the database across US and hence not fake. You can search jobs, save jobs, get job alerts and can directly apply through iPhone.

Job Compass This iPhone app helps in finding jobs around your current location. You can search for more than 2 million jobs and configured for US locations. It is the only patent pending web and mobile job search application that searches millions of jobs, locating and plotting them on a map showing you exactly where the jobs are in relation to a certain location. Search based on the keywords and the radius (city, zip and state).

LinkedIn LinkedIn is a top professional networking website. You can search jobs, save and apply for jobs. Search people and their information quickly before meeting them. Connect and add contacts with other users immediately through iPhone via Bluetooth using “In person” feature.

JobTweet It’s a real-time job search engine for twitter. You can search job by simply typing keyword and location. If you click the links then you can view the original website where and when the job has been posted. There is option to check the tweets of these posting. User can retweet and share through various websites. It allows to post jobs. In the attempt to ensure timeliness only about the latest two hundred

Other applications:

reQall – To organize activities

Stanza – To read books on iPhone

Facebook – To connect with right people

AroundMe – To quickly find out information about your surroundings

Audio Job Interview Professional – To get noticed with the pre-done initial interview done by Audio Job Interview Pro App on iPhone. This can then be sent to the potential Employer

Employer Branding is to create a positive image by marketing the company and its culture. It is very essential attract right talent too.

Involve Employees in the Process

Employees are the best source for branding any organisation. Their constant feedbacks not only help the organisation to rectify the unnoticed areas for improvement but helps in retaining them as they feel special. Have advisory team of professionals in the organisation with varying experience levels who can support in such activities. Add employee testimonials, interviews and surveys in the company website. Organise training sharpen the skills, recognising and rewarding employees for their work.

Observe the practices with competitors and increase the awareness of your best practices

Notice the competitors in the similar industry and the practices which they adopt to attract and retain people. Constantly improve the HR practices to make the best place to work in this organisation and in turn become ambassadors in the market.

Take professional help from Ad Agencies

Since the external agencies get a view on different prospective, it is beneficial to take professional guidelines from them and come up with the best ad campaigns to promote the company. It is equally important that this team has people from wide range of industries and experience in market research, branding, public relations, market communication, media, human resources etc.

Active Social Involvement

Involve in social activities in different sectors like healthcare, education, sports, conferences, competitions and so on. Participate in different job fairs. Meet university students, give seminars, visit for campus recruitments and build network outside.

Visibility in Social Media

With the latest trends and internet technologies, it has become easy to market anything and anywhere! It is very simple, cost effective and latest method to reach people. Create company profiles in all the networking sites like LinkedIn, Twitter, Facebook etc. New generation is more internet savvy and it is easy to reach them through online visibility. Advertise in Radio and Television.

We had covered basics of Applicant Tracking System earlier. Here is a list of Software Solutions to do Resume Management effectively.

Free and Open Source Version

OpenCATS is the first open source Applicant Tracking System (ATS) runs on both Windows and Linux. It is innovative, easy to use and cost effective recruitment tool which can manage critical talent acquisition issues in an efficient manner. It can be installed on a local machine or on a server for web access. It is built on Linux, Apache, MySQL and PHP platform. The interface is very simple,clutter free and it is web based.

Most of the existing ATS applications are expensive, complicated, cluttered and Cumbersome UI. There are both free and paid versions of CATS. The user can choose depending on their requirement. For smaller size business set up, the free version is sufficient and effective. The open source version is free and this is for a small community. The free version includes the core functions and is generally sufficient for smaller organizations or self-employed recruiters. At no cost, you can track up to 5 job orders at once and allow candidates to apply from your website. You can use single-recipient email communications and store about 2,000 resumes with 100 MB of storage.

Features Include

• Post Jobs and Receive Applications from the Website
• 24/7 Support from Anywhere
• Import LinkedIn Contacts
• Perform Searches of Resume Database

Site: www.opencats.org

Download OpenCATS

CATS – Commercial Software

CATS is a professional version that costs 39$/month per user and includes 2GB of storage per user. This version includes  additional features which are not found in the free version.  You can track unlimited job postings and store tens of thousands more resumes. When you first sign-up, you’ll automatically be given a 30-day trial of the Professional version.

Features Include

• All those which are available in free version
• Integrates with MS Outlook and Word
• Publish Jobs on other networking sites like Twitter, Facebook etc
• Email Support to multiple candidates
• Import resumes from Job portals and LinkedIn
• Export Searches, Reporting, Custom reports to Excel
• SSL 128-Bit Security and many more

Site: www.catsone.com

Download 30 days Trial CATS