Ryan St. Germaine

How Zappos Got Social Media Right (among other things!)

June 27
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I recently shared my thoughts on Zappos corporate culture and how it can help both business development and recruitment. A success story, pre, during and post recession, Zappos was acquired by Amazon in 2009 for a reported 1.2 billion USD. In 2010 the company received over 38,000 applications for employment and in 2011, expect to hire 2,000 employees. Evidently they’re doing something right! Zappos credits much of its success from its loyalty and relationship marketing strategy as well as its corporate culture. They believe that happiness at work equates happiness at home and a focus on customer service results in repeat business. As such, the company does not have a social media policy. CEO Tony Hsieh j……Read More

Welcome to Jobcast.net - our new name for Syndicruit!

June 8
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After operating as Syndicruit.com for the past few months, we came to the realization that the name wasn't a good fit. The response we got to our name varied from "Syndi what???" to, "Is that an oil company?" So, for the past two months we've been working on a new name for Syndicruit that better reflects where we're going as a company. After much deliberation our brilliant designer Leif Parker hit on what we think is a winner, Jobcast.net! Why Jobcast?Many of you know us for our Facebook job app that we launched a few months ago. What you may not know is that this is just the beginning of what we plan to offer. In the very near future, we will be launching a platform for broadcasting jobs to many other social s……Read More

1000th Job Published on our Facebook Job App

May 17
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Last Friday (on May 13th), the 1000th job was published using our Facebook Job App! We ‘re really excited by the amazing growth that we’ve experienced since launching our App in February of this year and we’d like to thank you (our customers) for this growth. You early adopters have provided us with great feedback that has proved invaluable! As we add more features and reveal new services, we’re happy to have you all on-board as our valued partners!We’ve got many things planned over the next several months to improve the recruitment experience on the web by leveraging social media so stay tuned for more updates soon. We can’t wait to share with you!In the meanwhile, thank you all for helping us hit the first……Read More

How to install our Facebook job app

November 7
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Thanks for stopping by! Our job app is a great way to attract candidates directly from your Facebook fan page. It's free, easy-to-use and creates buzz for your company on Facebook! Install the app in 5 simple steps:1. Go to our app install page here - http://www.facebook.com/syndicruit2. Click on the "Install the app to your Facebook page" button 3. Click the down arrow on the drop down box labeled "Add this application to" and choose which page you'd like to add the job app to.Note: If you only have one fan page, skip this step and go on to step four.4. Click on the button labeled "Add Syndicruit Job Application"5. After step four, you'll be taken to your fan page. You'll notice a "Jobs" tab in your top navigation - click i……Read More