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Lessons Learned from the Recruiting Roadshow

Amitai Givertz — Sat, 29 Dec 2007 23:09:05 +0000

In short, some of us need to get out more!

Bill Vick and Towers of Confusion

Amitai Givertz — Wed, 12 Dec 2007 13:32:44 +0000

A personal reflection posted on Recruitomatic today. It is about recruiting big-biller Bill Vick’s presentation at the Dallas Recruiting Roadshow.

Bill’s presentation introduced “bleeding edge” technology to recruiters who by and large — by their own show of hands — were hemorrhaging on old notions of how to use the Internet. It was that that was was most interesting to me. I wondered, “Is the so-called war for talent going to be won with what most recruiters are currently equipped with?” I don’t think so.

You can read the whole post here…

Telling Tales

Amitai Givertz — Mon, 10 Dec 2007 11:08:25 +0000

I just posted Food for Thought: Ripping Yarns on Recruitomatic, the fourth in a Food for Thought… series.

Trying to wrap my head around information foraging theory I’m hoping a modern-day forager can help me make some stodgy stuff a little easier to digest…hmmm, maybe not!

The Discovery Channel airs an interesting program called Man vs Wild. The star of the show is Bear Grylls, a real life Action Man who demonstrates techniques for surviving the most inhospitable landscapes.

To accentuate the extreme nature of his adventures — and the diversity of what we eat on planet Earth perhaps — we are treated to the spectacle of watching iron-gut Grylls eat some particularly horrid things, or delicacies depending on your stomach.

Read the rest here…