Three Ways to Clever Recruitment Blogging
And, the Blog Swap continues.
By what authority who knows, but the Recruiting Animal says…
“You want readers, dumb it down. “Ten tips to a great resume” should get you a few. “Three things you should never say in an interview.” “What do you do if your candidate is cute?” Start writing these – even in your bizarre quirky style [the pot calling the kettle black] – and I guarantee a following.”
Recruitomatic asks, “Will this work?”
Three Ways to Clever Recruitment Blogging
1. Find a source you can trust and “borrow heavily” from it. If caught plagiarizing, distract everyone with a clever product launch.
2. Quote anyone who falls into category one at length to avoid being accused of plagiarizing yourself. Appear well connected to make it all look innocent. Launch a new blog with a clever name.
3. Realize options one and two will not sustain pay-per-click advertising. Invent a clever search engine to legitimize your use of everyone else’s content. Go to the top of the class.
Technorati says…
Recruiting Animal – dumbing it down since March 29, 2006 – ranks 99,625 with 69 links from 27 blogs.
Recruitomatic – mixing it up since June 10, 2006 – ranks 92,306 with 151 links from 29 blogs.
Hey, who needs readers when we have eachother?
8 Comments, Comment or Ping
Recruiting Animal
Dumbing it down. That’s me. Didn’t a highly esteemed blogger once say: You’ll never lose a nickel underestimating the attention span of the recruiting animals.
Aug 22nd, 2006
Recruitomatic
As for what highly esteemed bloggers once said, I cannot comment. Who is your source? Who has a nickel? Who are the “recruiting animals?”
Aug 22nd, 2006
Recruiting Animal
I will still argue that links are good for readers who want to do extended research but that it is unwise to make them an integral part of the posting’s meaning because they take too much work to explore and few readers will take advantage of such effort on the part of the writer. Therefore, a reliance on them will, in fact, limit the appreciation of a message.
Aug 22nd, 2006
Recruitomatic
If one cannot get something of value from my posts without going behind the links, I have, indeed, failed. However, my position has not changed since our last exchange and my comments on an earlier post.
What I cannot accept is your implied underestimation of our readers’ intellectual prowess or attention span or willingness to learn through play (related comments on Recruiting Animal: Advice for A Young Blogger). There are enough blogs out there talking to the lowest common denominator. Do I have to be one of them? Anyone who reads the Recruiting Animal could easily walk away thinking it’s all guffaw and ha-ha-ha. But it’s not, is it? Again, I would rather a reader come once and decide not to come back than compromise my own experience of my own blog which is for you to share – if you choose.
Bottom line is this: we couldn’t be more different (stylistically) as bloggers or more complimentary on the fringe of this space. Being authentic is all that matters when blogging here in the recruitment bubble. We have it, I think - I hope. EXCELER8ion has it. Colin Kingsbury has it. Your HR Guy has it. Shally Sterkel has it. Jim Durbin has it. There are a good many that have it. And, there are a good many that don’t.
All that said, as it relates to my Blog Swap posts on Recruiting Animal today, I concede your point.
Amitai
Aug 22nd, 2006
Your HR Guy
A touching tribute to the honor guard of recruitment blogging!
Aug 23rd, 2006
Jim Stroud
Nice one… Glad you are in my blogroll. -Jim
Aug 24th, 2006
Recruiting Animal
Hey, which recruiting blogs are catering to the lowest common denominator. I’ve got that territory sewn up. I’m trying to give you a break and let you in and all you do is complain.
Aug 24th, 2006
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