Tell the World About the Best Recruiting Website and You Can Win an iPod

What company has the best recruiting/HR page? Who kicks ass end gets names? What company’s recruiting page makes you go, “Wow, I wanna work there!”?

Companies invest a ton of money and energy recruiting the most qualified people. Who’s doing it best? Who has a way to get you to look even when you’re not looking? You know, the place where you’d look on a website if you were looking for a job and wanted to know about their HR info.

I’ve looked at a bunch of sites myself, but this question is more suited to the wisdom of the masses. I’m trying to get a gauge of what’s really great out there and you’re the ones who know. (BTW: Business that are in the business of recruiting people don’t count, e.g., Monster.com isn’t what I’m looking for unless it’s to employ people to work at Monster.)

Would you please leave leave a comment below with your thoughts about great recruiting/HR sites? (I’ll leave internal HR sites for discussion on another day.) I’ll publish a list - with attribution and links by April 30 at noon EST (GMT-5).

I Could Win an iPod Just for Playing?
Operators are on duty 24 hours a day. Well, maybe not, but KnowHR Blog is. As an extra little inducement, I thought we could make this a game. Here’s how it’ll work:

  1. Leave a response in the comments with a link to your nominee for Best Recruiting/HR site.
  2. Link to this post and KnowHR Blog if you have a blog. It’s linky love. I’ll reciprocate.
  3. Find out on April 30 at noon EST (GMT-5) if your name got pulled from a (virtual) hat.

The Prize Value Goes Up Depending on the Number of Responses
If we get at least the number of quality responses indicated below, the prize value goes up. Please note that there will be one prize, and which prize depends on how many quality responses we get (I’m asking about company websites that you’d look at even if you weren’t looking for a job.) The more responses the better. If we hit the front page of Digg, then I’ll think up an even cooler prize. (It’ll still be something from Apple.)

If We Get at Least…..You Can Win
100 Responses……..iPod Shuffle
300 Responses……..iPod Nano
500 Responses……..iPod (yes, the big dog)
1000 Responses……Apple TV

iPod Prizes

Hurry, the contest ends April 30!

Posted on April 19, 2007 by Frank Roche 
Filed Under KnowHR, Surveys

Comments

22 Responses to “Tell the World About the Best Recruiting Website and You Can Win an iPod”

  1. Frank Roche on April 19th, 2007 1:04 pm

    I’m just seeding the comment cloud….first!

  2. John Windsor on April 19th, 2007 2:43 pm

    VERY clever! (But that doesn’t count toward your #s . . .)

  3. Laura Athavale Fitton on April 19th, 2007 2:56 pm

    http://www.itasoftware.com/careers/

    ITA Software also has these great ads on the “T” trains, showing actual employees playing with airplanes, etc.

  4. Frank Roche on April 19th, 2007 4:06 pm

    Okay, John, I gotta believe that you know one or two. ;-)

    Laura, thanks…you’re really the first one! And that’s a cool site.

  5. Larry C on April 19th, 2007 10:08 pm

    My personal pick is Pixar and Disneys =)

  6. John Windsor on April 19th, 2007 10:46 pm

    Okay, here’s a company with a wonderful description of their culture. You can just feel the passion.

    http://www.readytalk.com/about-us/company-story.php

  7. Lisa on April 20th, 2007 4:40 am

    Long time lurker, first time poster!

    http://www.humanresourcesonline.net

    I have to admit that I’m a little biased - I write for the magazine! But we don’t mind getting more eyeballs from the online HR community. Plus, the chance to win an ipod is pretty sweet. :)

  8. Andy on April 20th, 2007 11:20 am

    Cool Looking Mini Cooper Company Cars! Nice Video

  9. Brian P on April 20th, 2007 1:23 pm

    These guys are great!

  10. Brian P on April 20th, 2007 1:23 pm

    check em out!

  11. Hongbo Luo on April 20th, 2007 2:45 pm

    cool idea

  12. Alice Forbes on April 21st, 2007 1:17 pm

    I visit Disney and Pixar because my kids like them so much and their products. When I saw their site I was really impressed. Plus the other one would have to be Adobe.

  13. JT on April 21st, 2007 3:40 pm

    Campbell’s Soup gets a vote from me:

    http://careers.campbellsoupcompany.com/index.asp

    And Merck:

    merck.com

  14. Frank Roche on April 21st, 2007 4:27 pm

    JT, that Campbell’s one is very good.

  15. Santosh on April 22nd, 2007 5:10 pm

    I vote for Whole Foods

    http://www.wholefoodsmarket.com/careers/index.html

  16. Frank Roche on April 23rd, 2007 5:34 am

    Santosh, that’s a good one. I’m a big fan of all things Whole Foods, so this just adds to it.

  17. Catherine on April 24th, 2007 9:19 am

    http://www.teksystems.com/

  18. SHRIKANT on April 25th, 2007 4:07 am

    http://www.ilo.org/public/english/bureau/pers/index.htm
    The website is very simple logical and informative without jargon.

  19. Jessica on April 25th, 2007 10:03 am

    Google has the best recruitment site, it looks like every job there is fun.

  20. Dave Lefkow on April 26th, 2007 10:17 am

    The best and most functional career website I’ve seen out there is http://www.erac.com - Enterprise Rent-a-Car. Believe it or not, they have the most successful college recruiting program in the country. You wouldn’t think they could get college graduates to work behind a rental car counter, but they really do!

  21. Beth Macknik on April 26th, 2007 7:38 pm

    Gotta love the chef!

  22. Laura Athavale Fitton on April 29th, 2007 11:29 pm

    I found another one. Check out the “meet the team” video at Geezeo. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ixuxw-KMdgQ Makes me want to work there. Plus, it’s a cool idea for a service.

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