Teaming up with All The Top Bananas.......

SOLIDstaff.com will soon be teaming up with All The Top Bananas and integrating their site with us to show even more CV's!  We are still looking for companies to establish Affiliate links with our website.  Remember, using an affiliate link will help lower the cost of recruitment for the catering industry; a link on your page will improve the standing of SOLIDstaff and consequently improve the quantity of quality staff coming to you!

Take a look at this new job, fresh to our website this week:-

Temporary Chef de Partie

Jobs, Jobs, Jobs!.......

This week SOLIDstaff.com gained more jobs on its website.  Every Job and CV posted on our site helps to improve our online ranking within the catering and hospitality industry. We are currently in communication with Broadbean in the hope of bringing even more jobs onto our site.  The sunshine hasn’t stopped candidates from registering their CV’s on our site!

Take a look at these two new jobs posted just this week:-

Sous Chef - 24K -with Live-in and Great Tips

HEAD CHEF - MODERN GASTRO PROPERTY - NORTH YORKSHIRE

Another Record Week!......

Traffic on the SOLIDstaff.com website reached another record high yesterday with 1,780 hits in one day!  In Catering and Recruitment 90 candidates also hit our site in one day. 

We're currently showing a Head Chef's post available in Whitby, North Yorkshire, click on the following link for more details HEAD CHEF with ambition for 1 Rosette Property

A Record Week!..........

SOLIDstaff.com has had a records week with over 1,000 hits to its site in just one day!  This is of course, great news which has brought a smile to the faces of our team. We are currently in talks with Cris Bradshaw from All The Top Bananas, who has been very helpful in pointing us in the right direction and we look forward to working with Cris and his team in the future:-

http://www.allthetopbananas.com/

Please keep an eye on our job board - these are exciting times!

Advertise for Free on SOLIDstaff.com.....

SOLIDstaff use companies such as LogicMelon, JobMate, idibu, Kaonix  and Vacancy Poster for integrating our sites. With the XML feeds, catering and hospitality companies can either post job adverts or include a multi-source CV search. At the moment, it's free of charge from SOLIDstaff to implement these XML feeds. 

This week SOLIDstaff.com have linked up with Red Advertising which will ultimately produce more outgoing feeds (we are always keen to link with any catering and hospitality organisations).

Visit our website for more information on XML feeds:-

 http://www.solidstaff.com/data/xml-feeds.php

Solidstaff is moving forward again!

SOLIDstaff.com is moving forward again! We have recently linked to Trovit and are currently in talks with other companies regarding future links. We are pleased to see that our page authority is rising, meaning the traffic is growing on the site and we hope to go up another level on the ranking scale fairly soon. We now have approximately 700 jobs on our site to date. Mullion Cove Hotel (http://www.mullion-cove.co.uk/careers/) has been the first to integrate SOLIDstaff.com onto their website, which means that when a job is posted on SOLIDstaff.com website, it bypasses our system and goes directly onto their website, whereby if an employee applies direct through the Mullion Cove Hotel website it bypasses SOLIDstaff.com’s system.

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This is a good thing for us as the more links we have with privately owned caterers, the higher up the rankings our web page will be placed. It is currently free to set up this process, even though we normally say the website cost is £250 per year. The set up process will only take minute for a web developer to action and liaise with SOLIDstaff.com for the more detailed coding required.

We are hopeful that we will also be linking up with a European company shortly, which will assist candidates seeking employment abroad. We will keep you posted!

Could your use of social media be harming your job prospects?

Social media outlets such as Facebook and Twitter are allowing recruiters to dig deeper into the lives of potential candidates than ever before. With over 1 billion people using Facebook alone, our online presence is more prominent than ever. As many employers are now choosing to use Facebook to screen potential candidates, young people in particular are unwittingly putting their career opportunities at risk.

The Recruitment Society and CIPD report they are seeing more examples than ever of inappropriate photos and comments on social media sites. Gone are the days when you can say whatever you like online without repercussions. 17 year old Dan lost out on a job at a café chain after making jokes on Twitter. He is also being followed by his prospective university, meaning any inappropriate comments he makes could have a huge impact on his future.

Today being social media savvy is essential if you want to stay on the right side of recruiters. You may be surprised to learn the recruitment practice of using social media is perfectly legal provided the employer doesn’t make any decisions based on gender, age or race. As the information is publically available, often all it takes is a Google search for recruiters to find your details. Unless your privacy settings are watertight you could be publishing images and commentaries which make employers think twice about hiring you.

Young people in particular are at risk. With universities encouraging students to apply for graduate schemes during their final year, many students are unprepared for the social media scrutiny this can bring. With the competition for graduate jobs increasing year on year, recruiters are looking for any opportunity to thin the pool of candidates. If your social media presence isn’t up to scratch, you could be taking an early exit from the recruitment process.

Everyone likes to party and have fun, but your future employer doesn’t want to see you drinking that foot-long beer in Prague. Trust me. Often all it takes is a quick tinker with the privacy settings and you’ll be kept in the running for your dream job. Facebook in particular is highly customisable; you can even group your contacts into categories, allowing you to limit the exposure of posts to a close group of friends.

We’ve all heard the horror stories of people getting fired due to inappropriate use of social media. I’m talking about the people who phone in sick and then post pictures of themselves on a night out. The people who slag off their boss and forget he’s on their friends list. While these stories make good headlines, they don’t hold resonance with the majority of readers. Such stories are the very tip of the iceberg, and as we often credit ourselves with more intelligence, many people dismiss the warnings surrounding social media as something for other people to worry about.

In reality if your social media profile is holding you back, chances are you wouldn’t even know it. Recruiters rarely have the time or inclination to give feedback unless it’s expressly requested. Sometimes all it takes is a dodgy profile picture or throw away comment for your application to be rejected.

CV Knowhow offers a defence against the over-zealous recruiter, by offering a review of your social media presence for £20. As part of our CV Writing Service we’ll give you feedback on your online presence, giving you the benefit of an outsiders view. We’ll point out anything you should watch out for that could give recruiters doubts as to your suitability. By making the necessary changes based on our advice you’ll be able to boost your chances of bagging your dream job.