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The Mole

What's going on?

Hello All,

The Mole has been super busy over the last few weeks and a lot has been happening, which we here at Mole HQ are very excited about. We're been working hard on some great new features to improve the site and make it even faster and easier to use. We are also in several discussions with potential partners that will bring a number of benefits to our members...

It's fantastic to see and hear from members that how useful it has been for them to speak to Moles about their company and what it's really like to work there. We will shortly be starting up a testimonials section so if you've found TheCareerMole useful and would like to contribute please get in touch.

In the meantime, good luck with your job applications

The Mole
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...Everyone's 'unfair advantage!'

The Great Mole Hunt: T-2

There's only two more days to go until the Great Mole Hunt competition closes.... have all your friends signed up? It's worth chasing them so you're in it to win the Champneys break!

Good luck

The Mole
TheCareerMole.com
Meet. Refer. Progress.

...9 Days till 2 nights of luxury!

Hello All

We are T-8 days till the Great Mole Hunt comes to an end and we know who the lucky person is who has won 2 nights for them and a friend including body massage and facials each (!) at a Champney resort of your choice!

Have you entered?

Could it be you?



There's still time to enter the competition. Check here for details on how to enter

Good luck - soon you could be looking this relaxed...!

The Mole

TheCareerMole.com

...Everyone's unfair advantage!

Mole Lifestyle Partners

Hello Everyone!

After a long hard week the importance of being in the right job couldnt be more apparent to us all. TheCareerMole.com is a powerful tool for motivated professionals to manage and progress their careers, whether you are job hunting or looking to climb the ladder at your company.

All work and no play makes for poor chat though which is why we're launching the 'Mole Lifestyle Partners'. TheCareerMolewill be partnering with a select number of companies that offer our members something different and help them to improve their work / life balance.

The first member of this distinguished club is 20days.co.uk, a free-to-join members club that helps those in their 20s and 30s make the most of only having 20(+) days holiday a year. To find out more about what 20Days can offer you click here, or visit their website.

Enjoy the weekend!

Cheers

The Mole
TheCareerMole.com
...Everyone's unfair advantage!

Heard it on the Grapevine...

TheCareerMole.com was featured in an article by Widget Finn in Grapevine Magazine. The Grapevine brokers news and opinion between senior HR professionals.

The article was a comprehensive assessment of the benefits of employee referral schemes, TheCareerMole process and how we are helping employers to maximise their referral volumes.

Keep your eyes peeled for more Mole news

Regards


The Mole
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New vacancies posted

Hello All

As TheCareerMole.com continues to grow as a result of the media coverage we've received and you, telling your friends (thank you!), the focus at Mole HQ is now firmly on onboarding employer members to the site. The response we've had has been excellent and is keeping us all very busy.

We have a number of employers from a range of industries starting to use TheCareerMole.com and MoleResourcing.com so check in regularly and keep an eye on the Vacancies page. You might find a new challenge for you or a friend.

That's all for now

Regards

The Mole
TheCareerMole.com
Everyone's unfair advantage!

Hot! Hot! Hot!

Phew! It is boiling! Even though The Mole doesn't cope well with heat like this (fur and all - not a good combo), what a welcome change from the last few weeks!

The weather isn't the only thing hotting up either; TheCareerMole member count is growing rapidly - we're now just short of 1000 member in 8 weeks, which is fantastic. Thanks for your support so far; please keep spreading the word amongst your friends, family and colleagues. Everyone benefits from TheCareerMole.com!

Even more exciting; we are also in the process of onboarding a number of employers members on to MoleResourcing.com. Since our press launch 8 weeks ago we have been contacted by employers from banks to construction to media companies so watch this space for announcements and new vacancies being posted.

Have a great weekend - lets hope the weather sticks!

The Mole
TheCareerMole.com
..Everyone's 'unfair advantage'!

P.S. Don't forget to you've only got 29 days left to tell your friends and enter the Champneys Mole Hunt competition!

Onwards and upwards

Hello All - Hope you had good weekends. The Mole i feeling extremely upbeat today; the week ended well with thelondonpaper article which had a massive impact. Thanks to everyone that continues to show their support for TheCareerMole.com. We are receiving some really nice comments from members who appreciate what The Mole is doing - keep them coming!

Th forecast for this week looks set to improve - fingers crossed the much needed sunshine and drier weather is on its way. There's plenty going on at Mole HQ too so watch this space for more news.

Cheers


The Mole
TheCareerMole.com
Everyone's unfair advantage

P.S. Dont forget about the Great Mole Hunt - the winner of the luxury Champneys competition will be drawn on 31st August. Increase your chances of winning by entering multiple times!

thelondonpaper

Hi All

For those of you in London there's a really good article about TheCareerMole.com in 'thelondonpaper' today. Check it out on your way home

The Mole
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...Everyone's unfair advantage!

Tell your boss

We want to partner with your employer and help them maximise the number of candidates they recruit via referral.

Employers and recruitment agencies can register on MoleResourcing.com: take control of company Moles, post jobs, track referred candidates and deactivate Moles if they are not recruiting. TheCareerMole.com and MoleResourcing.com provide a forum with the tools and controls employers, employees and candidates need to get the most out of employee referral schemes and make recruitment more efficient.

If you refer your boss or HR department to TheCareerMole.com and they engage with us, we’ll reward your with a referral bonus. You’ll also be helping your company recruit the best candidates for less, which will make you look good too.

Spread the word!


The Mole
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Everyone's unfair advantage

Win! Win! Win! Everyone's unfair advantage

What miserable weather! Get over the doom and gloom and enter our competition to win a luxury break at a Champneys Health Resort.

Whatever you're doing this weekend, tell your friends about TheCareerMole.com and make sure that when they sign up they enter your name in the 'referred by' field on the register form! You can enter the competition as many times as you like so tell everyone!

If any of the 20+ people per hour joining TheCareerMole.com are your friends and they have stated you referred them, you are already entered in to the competition - good luck! - it will be drawn on August 31st so watch this space.

Thanks


The Mole
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Find us on Facebook

If your a Facebook user tell your friends about the benefits of TheCareerMole by joining our groups.

Search for TheCareerMole.com and join our two groups:

1. Employee Referral Programs? Great – but I don’t know anyone to refer!
2. TheCareerMole.com

The more people we can tell about TheCareerMole the more candidates there will be for Moles to refer, and the more Moles there will be for candidates to contact! Everyone wins!

Thanks

The Mole

Referrals net employees £16 billion bonus

Hello All - We've just completed some research on the size of the referral recruitment industry and we've found bosses are rewarding employees who refer friends and family for vacancies with a bonus that totals a whopping £16 billion.

TheCareerMole.com is unlocking the power of referral schemes for employers, employees and candidates. With the average cash windfall to be expected for successful referrals approx. £3,495 with some taking home as much as £15,000, for senior jobs there's no better time to get involved with referrals.

Join TheCareerMole.com today and get involved in the referral boom.

Happy Moling!


The Mole
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The Times

We featured today in The Times job section which you can read here:

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/life_and_style/career_and_jobs/graduate_management/article2058945.ece

We are getting an increasing amount of very positive press coverage but we wanted to take this opportunity to respond to the concerns expressed by Deloitte. As we get more opportunities to engage with the press and employers through more in depth coverage of TheCareerMole.com, we feel the outcome of all these discussions will ultimately be positive.

We anticipated and share Deloitte’s concerns in this article. As such, we already have controls in place to prevent Moles focusing all of their time on recruiting rather than their day jobs: Moles can only be contacted by one candidate at a time, limiting the time they can spend referring people. Moles are incentivised to refer only the best candidates with the greatest chance of success, positively affecting their ‘Mole Rating’.

Uniquely, Moles are reactive, only logging in when suitable candidates contact them, unlike other sites where the equivalent of Moles, are expected to invest time proactively searching and matching candidates to jobs.

Employers and recruitment agencies can register on MoleResourcing.com: take control of their Moles, post jobs, track referred candidates and deactivate Moles if they are not recruiting.

TheCareerMole.com and MoleResourcing.com provide a forum with the tools and controls employers, employees and candidates need to get the most out of employee referral schemes and make recruitment more efficient.

If your employer has similar concerns to Deloitte please ask them to contact us directly. If our existing controls and processes do not already address their concerns, we will improve the site so it does. We believe TheCareerMole.com and MoleResourcing.com makes the recruitment industry better for everyone and we'd welcome any conversation to explain how and why so please do get in touch with your concerns, feedback and comments.

Thanks


The Mole
http://www.thecareermole.com/
Meet. Refer. Progress.

"There's money in them their referrals!"

We’ve been putting together some figures on exactly how much corporate employee referral schemes pay for a successful referral and the results will be to your liking! From the responses we've had so far the average bonus paid depends on whether you refer a graduate / entry level or an experienced hire.

The averages we have so far are approximately:

- Graduate / Entry level referral bonus = £1,500
- Experienced hire referral bonus = £3,000

Of course these are averages so don't get too excited until you've confirmed the bonus you're eligible for in your company's employee referral policy.

These bonuses are paid to the employee (Mole) direct from their employer as part of their salary. While these are average figures the fact there is a financial reward at all reflects the high value employers place on employee referral.

So what are you waiting for? Join now and get involved!

Happy Moling!


The Mole
http://www.thecareermole.com/

Strength to strength

Hello everyone

We now have Moles who can help candidates make the right decisions about their next job in over 80 companies, across 20 different industries from Accounting and Architecture to Retail and Venture Capital. Each day new moles are joining TheCareerMole.com so keep checking back in to see who might have registered in your industry.

Good luck with your Moling

Regards

The Mole
www.TheCareerMole.com
Network. Refer. Progress.

Today The Daily Telegraph's Job supplement lead with a story about Moles netting cash bonuses for referrals. This is great news for corporate employee referral schemes and our 'Moles' who are eligible to refer candidates to their corporate's recruitment process.

As well as putting the spotlight on TheCareerMole.com, Zubka.com was mentioned so we thought we'd highlight the difference between the two referral offerings.

TheCareerMole.com, together with MoleResourcing.com, are bolt-on platforms for corporates to use to unlock, and maximise the numbers they recruit through their in-house 'employee referral programme'. At the other end of the spectrum, Zubka's 'referrers' are essentially being paid a slice of the traditional recruitment agency fee for matching people they now to job postings on the site.

Company employees - our Moles - register on TheCareerMole.com and, acting as ambassadors for their employer, make themselves available to be contacted by our community of candidates and Moles. Until the Mole receives a notification that they have been contacted by a candidate considering applying to the Moles' company the Mole is free to go about their day job. Their involvement is passive up to this point. This is in stark contrast to the Zubka model whereby their 'referrers' - equivalent to our Mole members - are expected to proactively construct profiles on their friends and then actively match these profiles to the job postings essentially devoting a chunk of their time to being a part time recruitment consultant!

At this point our Mole logs in to the site, reviews the candidate's CV that is waiting for him and screens and assess the candidates suitability to the company he works for based on his first hand experience of the minimum requirements and what it takes to be successful. If the candidate meets or exceeds the requirements an ongoing screening process takes place as the candidate and mole get to know each other. If the candidates decides they do want to apply and work at the Moles' company; and the Mole feels they have a good chance of success, the Mole can then submit the candidate through his company's employee referral scheme. If the candidate is successfully complete the recruitment process they get their dream job, and the Mole is rewarded for his efforts with a bonus - paid directly to him by his employer, not TheCareerMole.com - we just help people who might never have met each other before - introduce themselves to Moles.

If the company you work for has an employee referral programme, then join TheCareerMole.com as a Mole and start earning referral rewards directly from your employer.

Everyday we are adding new Moles and partnering with Employers to maximise the number of candidates they recruit through their corporate employee referral schemes. If you'd like to take your corporate referral volumes to the next level, contact us.