Your smartphone is always with you, and recruiters know that. That’s why growing numbers of them are utilizing mobile technologies to recruit and vet job candidates.
Posts Tagged ‘Mobile’
How Mobile Technology Is Changing The Job Search Process
Posted by Nancy Mann Jackson • November 22nd, 2011 • 10 Comments
Is Your Job Search Mobile?
Posted by Vickie Elmer • March 14th, 2011 • 3 Comments
Your Smartphone could be a key to your next job, especially if you already are working full-time.
Once you’ve added a few mobile apps, your phone is an easy way to check new job openings and dig into the background of the recruiter or hiring manager who just left you a message.
It’s also a great way to manage your Twitter and LinkedIn accounts without your boss strolling by and spotting a list of job possibilities or connections sitting on your work computer screen. For any stealth job searcher, take your phone to lunch with you – and spend time on Indeed, Real Time Jobs or another application that compresses the best of a website or online tool for use on a mobile phone. (One exception: if your phone was given to you by your employer, you may not want the Monster or CareerBuilder mobile app sitting there amid client contracts.)
Before you start downloading iTunes most popular ones or the best rated career apps in CNET’s reviews, ask yourself: What do I want to accomplish with this tool? Do you want to apply for jobs?
Mobile Companies & CEOs: Are They All Talk?
Posted by Glassdoor Team • February 21st, 2011 • 5 Comments
As consumers, we are constantly inundated by the latest mobile offering, whether it’s the Motorola Xoom or the rumored iPhone Nano. While a company may either boast the “largest and most reliable network” or a product that “changes everything,” we wondered whether their promotional excitement is backed by the support and satisfaction of its employees. We turn our attention to see how employees in the mobile industry who either make mobile products or sell mobile services rate their employers and CEOs.
In addition, Mobile World Congress, the industry’s largest annual showcase, wrapped up last week and we evaluated how CEOs who spoke at this massive conference compare and how well their employees think they are leading the company.
AT&T’s “There’s a Map for That” Lawsuit Against Verizon
Posted by Glassdoor Team • November 4th, 2009 • 1 Comment
The gloves are off: the media has reported that AT&T is suing Verizon over the company’s “There’s a Map for That” ads with the claim that the spots mislead customers as to AT&Ts overall coverage area, representing only 3G and not wireless coverage overall. While this news is not unexpected, it does come on the heels of disappointing earnings and sluggish customer growth for Verizon as the wireless giant struggles to compete against AT&T and their exclusive deal with Apple and the iPhone. Does this signal a modern day War of the Roses?
Advertising and consumer sentiment aside, we took a close look at how each company’s employees rate their leadership and the organization, and Verizon has a very slight edge over AT&T, although neither company can boast about high numbers of 5-star reviews. Despite outward appearances, based on anonymous reviews these communication giants are suffering from a lack of communication with their employees.
AT&T Reviews – Glassdoor Review
Sprints Signs Deal with Ericsson: Sprint Employees to become Ericsson Employees
Posted by Glassdoor Team • July 9th, 2009 • 1 Comment
Sprint Nextel Corp. has agreed to pay up to $5 billion the next seven years to TelTeLM Ericsson Telephone Co., turning over day-to-day operations of its network to the Swedish telecommunications company as Sprint looks to focus on new products and customer retention, according to the Wall Street Journal. Sprint commented that as a result of this deal about 6,000 Sprint employees will start performing their network functions as Ericsson employees sometime in the third quarter.
Could this be a good thing for Sprint employees? Just 10% of Ericsson employees disapprove of the job CEO Carl-Henric Svanberg is doing compared to the nearly 25% of Sprint employees who disapprove of CEO Dan Hesse, so perhaps this switch could be a good thing in the long run.
Glassdoor Report: Ericsson & Sprint
Company
Company Rating
CEO
CEO Approval Rating (%)
CEO Disapproval
Rating (%)
Ericsson
3.3
Carl-Henric Svanberg
55
10
Sprint
2.8
Dan Hesse
48
23
Apple Envy? RIM and Nokia Employees Dish
Posted by Glassdoor Team • March 17th, 2009 • 1 Comment
Yesterday, we took a look at competitor envy between Google and Yahoo, but today we turn our attention to those operating within mobile industry: Apple, RIM, Nokia. We wanted to find out if there is any correlation between their company ratings, CEO ratings and competitive chatter among these three mobile manufacturers.
When it comes to mentions of competitors among these three respective mobile manufacturers in the reviews at Glassdoor, we found that Apple is the only company of the three where employers don’t mention the competition. And even though it was reported last week that Nokia holds the largest market share among this list, the competition is creeping towards them so it’s no surprise that they also show the most concern. We found that in the Nokia reviews, employees mentioned both Apple and RIM. Whereas RIM employees, only express concern over Apple.
Mobile Company Employees Report What It’s Like on the Inside
Posted by Glassdoor Team • February 17th, 2009 • 4 Comments
The Mobile World Congress kicked off Monday in Barcelona, bringing together nearly 50,000 attendees for the largest exhibition in the mobile industry. Not only is this a great opportunity for those in the mobile world to network, but it is also an opportunity to see some of the hottest trends in mobile communications.
Despite the fact that some expect the global mobile market to shrink 9% in 2009, TechCrunch comments that 2009 is expected to be “the year many of the predictions made about the rise of mobile may start to come true. Startups in the space are poised to take advantage of affordable mobile Internet access and sophisticated handsets like the Apple iPhone.”
While we anticipate more announcements and technology previews during the conference, we decided to go beyond the press releases and presentations to see what employees of leading mobile handset manufacturers and wireless carriers really think about their employer’s prospects.
