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Chris Russell - Report from SHRM

Sunday, 29 June 2008

SHRM Buzz: "How Do We Connect with Gen Y?"

Chris Russell

Welcome to an Inside Recruiting channel edition of Total Picture Radio. Joining us today - Chris Russell, Founder & Chief Jobcaster at Jobs in Pods: the web's first ever audio job board where employers can podcast their jobs. Chris is the owner of AllCountyJobs.com, LLC a fast growing network of local job boards and publisher of job search tools & services - including Job in Pods which advertises jobs and promotes employer brands through audio podcast interviews.

Chris blogs at http://www.secretsofthejobhunt.com. Chris also started CHIMBY a vertical search engine that lets you search over 400 career advice sites at once. Chimby crawls the sites of career coaches, career blogs and other media sources in order to provide the best answers to your career advice questions. Chris attended and exhibited at the Society of Human Resource Managers - SHRM - 60th Annual Conference and Expo in Chicago last week, and we wanted a first-hand report from the conference. So, here it is!

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Chris Russell - Background

Chris Russell is a nine year veteran of the online job board industry. In 1999 he founded the regional job board network under the name AllCountyJobs.com LLC which he still manages today.

The idea for Jobs in Pods stems from his experience in blogging and podcasting from the past two years. He recognized that these new media tools represented the future of online recruiting and publicity. With a belief that “Recruiting is marketing“, Chris decided to bring these web 2.0 technologies into recruitment advertising by combining a blog with jobs and podcasts.

The result is a truly unique and memorable way for a company to advertise their jobs and promote their employer brand using this ‘internet radio on demand‘ concept. It is the only such service of its kind.

As the iPod generation of job seekers graduate into the job market, companies will need to communicate with them much differently than they did previous generations. The young, tech savvy, on demand worker of today expects different things from his/her employer. So they need to be spoken to in ways they can relate to. They are comfortable with podcasting and blogs.
They are ready for recruiting with Jobs in Pods.

Chris is also the founder of Jobboarders, a social network for job board professionals. He has also been named to the 2007 40 Under 40 Awards by the Fairfield County Business Journal. In 2006 he was also awarded the HR Vendor of the Year Award by the Southern Connecticut chapter of SHRM.