UPDATE JULY 13, 2007: IMPORTANT – New PR job board url – http://jobs.indiaprblog.com/

This is a new experiment called the ‘PR Jobs’.

What is it exactly?

PR Jobs is an experimental free job board started by the India PR Blog to list available public relations and related jobs in India (in agencies and corporate communication departments).

This job board highlights PR job vacancies as posted by the HR/contact persons of PR agencies and corporates or by those who need the services of a PR professional/freelancer for short-term projects. These posts are available at the job board’s independent url,or through the combined India PR Blog RSS feed, or when readers subscribed to this blog on their email (see subscription box on the blog’s upper left hand corner), thus accessible to hundreds of PR professionals across the country reading this blog.

More than job recruitment or facilitation service, take this as a social community of recruiters and candidates in the PR industry.

Some more FAQs.

How do you add a new job posting?
Click the orange color ‘Post a Job’ button at the top right hand side of the job board’s page. On the web form opened up, fill up the details, follow the instructions, and you are done. Preview your job posting before finalising it. There is a preview button on the job form page.

UPDATE: Tips on posting a job
Please remember that the job board’s mandate is to help spread your message to the maximum number of potential job candidates. Once that is accomplished, as in from the moment when a potential candidate reads your job posting, it is entirely up to what you write there that will determine whether the candidate decides to contact you or not.

Few tips for recruiters:
1. Please be specific on what and how many job posts you have. Do not waste your job post by writing something that looks like your company website’s Career page – something like ‘we welcome all candidates in all our offices across positions’.

2. Please remember there are other PR agencies posting on the same job board. Ask yourself why should a candidate contact you and not them. There are more PR posts available in the country than there are PR professionals.

3. Please specify last date of applying for a particular job if applicable, so that it is clearer to readers. We would appreciate if you could inform us by dropping an email in case a job position has been filled before the 30-day period. You can post another job after 30 days.

4. Please specify remuneration offered if you think you have the best to offer in your region. Often this is one key factor that will attract many candidates.

5. The more detail you are, the better you can convince someone to shoot you off a resume. Name the clients that you are handling, detail the work profile, work culture, how you work, what your employees say, are your employees happy most of the time or shivering with fear from the top management, is the crowd yuppy/profesional/helpful/cooperative. Does your organisation look like an old government office, late workings or nine to five, Saturdays off or working, what are the fun things that you do in your agency, future growth prospects available. What are the five things that you can offer to a job seeker that other agencies can’t offer – these are things that job seekers look for while searching for new shifts. Maybe you cannot mention all these, take these as a cue.

6. Please do not post if you don’t have a vacancy and just for the heck of posting. Remember, it will not go down well with professionals who are seriously looking for a position. It is like playing with other people’s career. (Please inform the India PR Blog of any abuse in the system)

There are already dozens of job portals already. Why is this different?

This will cater to a very niche audience – PR professionals in India (and maybe later abroad) – so that recruiters don’t get dozens of irrelevant resumes coming in to their mailboxes. Also nobody comes in between a recruiter and potential candidate and there is no fee. The job board does the work of a plain notice board through which employers are able to highlight their requirements to potential candidates.

Will it be worthwhile using this job board to recruiters and PR professionals?

…for recruiters

Over the last one year since it came into existence, this blog has developed a community of more than 700 (UPDATE : 776 as of today July 13, 2007) email subscribers, and more than a 150 RSS feed subscribers and increasing. These include PR professionals in India and across the globe, media professionals, marketers, and bloggers. The blog is read by PR professionals across all leading PR agencies in India. The blog also comes out among the top 3-5 search results on any PR and India related terms in online searches including in Google, Yahoo, and MSN. So leveraging on this community without incurring any cost to the company can be a good way to meet your employee requirements.

UPDATE: This new job board provides the option to post your job simultaneously on popular sites such as Google, Google Base, Simply hired, Indeed, SimplyHired, Oodle, Edgeio, Vast, OLX, Bixee, and HotJobs – thus giving you tons of exposure opportunities of your messages. You can see the details on the job post form. Any problem with the form? Drop us a one liner.

…for PR professionals

Eventually as this board becomes more and more popular and PR agencies and corporates begin to post their job requirements on this board, this board will become one central place where you can see and analyse all the job opportunities available in the PR industry.

You can subscribe to the RSS feed of this blog, or subscribe to the blog on your email see subscription box on the blog’s upper left hand corner)so that that you get an email notification of every new job posting on this board. This will ensure that you get updated on all new posts, new PR events listings, and new PR jobs listings. Of course you can subscribe to the job board’s individual feed if you want, but I’d recommend the combined feed as mentioned above. Current subscribers need not do anything.

UPDATE: You can send an email to the recruiter directly if there is an email mention in the job description box. Otherwise please click the ‘apply to this job’ button that will take you to a web form. Please note that India PR Blog does not get to see what you write in that web form. All the information go directly to the email that the recruiter has specified.

How far can this go?

It depends on the interest level shown by the industry. The job board can eventually grow into a good database of PR jobs across India, or just simply close down next month if it is not working.

Some rules?

All posts by recruiters will be moderated for quality. No, I’m not saying I’ll exclude less paying jobs. What this means is that all spam will be removed. Also, please do not post more any job repeatedly in the board. A post will remain on the job board for 30 days. It would be nice if somebody can drop me a mail if a right candidate has been found and a job posting is no longer valid. Also, please do not post any vacancy just for the sake of posting. Post only when there is a genuine opening.

Any disclaimer?

Yes. India PR blog does not take responsibility of any job posting on this board and all responsibilities are with the recruiters who post the particular job openings. The job board just provides a common platform and the blog does not take any part between the interactions of recruiters and candidates. Candidates should contact the recruiters mentioned on each job post directly. Please inform any abuse or write us any suggestion at hh@indiaprblog.com

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