HireClix Hosts Free Social Recruiting Seminar and Networking Mixer for Recruiters in Greater San Diego
HireClix will provide strategic insights and practical steps on how and why recruiting teams can use social media channels for recruiting in their first San Diego social recruiting seminar on Wed., Feb. 1 from 8:30 a.m. to 10:30 a.m. The free breakfast seminar, ?Maximizing LinkedIn and Facebook for Recruiting?, will be held at the Marriott Del Mar at 11966 El Camino Real in San Diego. The event is free and open to recruiting teams throughout San Diego County. Registration is required at http://www.hireclix.com/events.
?It?s time for recruiters to move beyond job boards and integrate social media into their recruitment campaigns,? said Neil Costa, CEO and founder of HireClix. ?Because social media is still underutilized for recruiting, employers can quickly get started on social recruiting to implement innovative recruiting campaigns that will stand out from the competition and be attractive to hard-to-find candidates.?
Corporate recruiting teams, staffing firms and human resources professionals are invited to attend the free breakfast seminar presented by Costa. The in-depth seminar will focus on how companies can utilize Facebook and LinkedIn to build their employment brands, recruit passive and active candidates, and increase the quality of incoming candidates and hire yield. Costa will also demonstrate specific ?how to?s? for building a Facebook recruiting fan page and targeting passive candidates with Facebook advertising. He will provide a tutorial on the advantages of LinkedIn?s lesser known products and outline effective techniques for negotiating a LinkedIn contracts.
Mass Tourism: The Tourist’s Dream or The Host’s Nightmare?
In the beginning was package tourism…..Well not quite, but the 1960′s saw a vast growth in foreign travel by the peoples of northern Europe to the sunnier regions of the Mediterranean, Greece being one of them, and today we have mass tourism which involves moving literally thousands of people around each day.
Many people would be surprised that tourism in Greece accounts for only 15% of the GDP for Greece with around 19,000,000 tourists in 2009, far less that than the 80,000,000 that visit France each year, but far more than the 2,500,000 that visit New Zealand each year!
Even more people would be surprised that there can be a comparison with tourism in Greece and New Zealand, however New Zealand tourism is characterised by the majority of accommodation consisting of hotels/motel with only 5 – 23 rooms, and as regular visitors to Greece will know this is the traditional style of much of the accommodation in Greece. Most of these apartment blocks and small premises are family owned and run, and a similar situation occurs in New Zealand.
Mass Tourism: The Tourist’s Dream or The Host’s Nightmare? Part Two
Part 2 – The Social and Environmental Side of Mass Tourism
Firstly a footnote to the Part 1 of these articles…..The average spend by tourists to Greece includes those tourists travelling independently, mass tourists of course spend considerably less as they have already paid their accommodation costs in their country of origin, all-inclusive tourists tend to spend nothing at all because they have paid for all their food and drinks in their country of origin.
Continuing the discussion we start with
The Social (and Political) Implications of Mass Tourism
No one has the right to prevent an emerging nation, or developing country from improving its status in the World, any more than anyone has the right to deny residents of colder countries their annual two weeks in the sun!
In many countries today there has been a move from the country areas to cities as people go in search of a ‘better life’. Tourism certainly provides an additional means of earning foreign income for the country concerned, but as we have seen in part one, if it happens to be a foreign mass tourism country that is calling the shots, the financial outcome may not be all that it could be. The hospitality industry is notoriously badly paid in many countries with long hours and low pay, and as fashions change it could well be that a country can suddenly find itself without tourists, or without sufficient income from tourism to support its infrastructure.