Online Recruitment Conference 2011: The Year Ahead

The Enhance Media Conference is just a few days away, Thursday 27 January 2011.

This is your chance to hear an excellent line-up of speakers:

• Learn how to save money and hire better candidates from the Head of Recruitment for Olympics 2012 and the Head of Online Recruitment for Boots.
• Learn from Microsoft why targets within recruitment can damage your success and why a website without walls is the future of talent acquisition.
• Hear about the future of job boards - currently the largest online candidate channel - from the Director of TotalJobs, the UK's largest job board.
• In the new innovation platform, hear from four companies who each think they have the recruitment game-changer. Do they have the solutions to your recruitment challenges?
• Plus, results from the world’s largest piece of online recruitment research and three giants of recruitment discussing how to get more value from recruitment suppliers.

Top 5 Online Communities for Starting Your Career

It’s helpful to have someone with more experience show you the ropes when you’re beginning a new journey — this is especially true when it comes to entering the job market.

Having a community that shares job openings, tips, resources and words of wisdom is of real value, especially when you can ask the tough questions, such as “Do I really need to write a cover letter?” or “What are the job prospects in my industry?”

There are several career communities that focus on those initial years of your career and offer resources for you to start off strong — here are five.