Well, you have to love Jason Goldberg. When we met briefly at the Jobster exhibit at the HR Technology bash in Chicago – actually it was more of a bomb than a bash – Jason Goldberg told me that he was going to make his mark as a disruptor in the online recruitment space, very soon he said. A disruptor, eh? I asked Jason Goldberg whether he favored the neural disruptor over the temporal disruptor at which point, conveniently distracted by the possibility of talking to somebody with money, he left me dangling there, disrupted. No matter.
The other day Jason Goldberg sent me an email from one of his handheld gadgets to update me on his disruptor plans, a “heads-up” he said. I am always amazed at how people will send me critically important communications and, just as I’m getting to the point of replying with the single question that will help me make sense of the universe, they have to board a plane, handheld gadgets turned off. Or, chase people with money. Whatever, no matter.
At Jason Goldberg’s suggestion I took a quick peak at Superstar Tags and immediately concluded that while the idea of tagging LinkedIn-look-a-likes-come-passive-candidates-and-wannabes might be considered kind of folksy by some of those who would automatically pooh-pooh this as nothing more than Web 2.0 [im]posturing, even so it is very clever idea. I like it, I don’t know why exactly, but no matter.
This morning Jason Goldberg published a simple post, recruiting bloggers. It reads: “know any recruiters who blog? here’s a good starting list.”
I followed the links thinking I was going to be redirected to the new group blog RecruitingBloggers.com but landed on a Superstar Tags page for recruiting bloggers. Disruptive thinking or cognitive dissonance? Bother! Naturally, I created my Jobster profile so that I could tag myself along with my contemporaries. Who wouldn’t? I even answered some of the questions that people who don’t know me personally would ask to get a measure of me as a potential hire. Questions like: “If your life could be made into a movie, which actress would play the part of your Mother?” To my horror – as happened with my carefully considered what does web 2.0 mean to you? submission – I played Jason Goldberg’s interactive blog-post game and nothing happened! Nothing at all! Zut!
I fear Jason Goldberg may have confused his “shaking things up” with our being “shaken not stirred.” No matter. There are more fundamental issues than my anticappointment that would need to be addressed long before this innovation in of itself could ever disrupt the online recruiting space. But, that is for another post on another day. In the meantime, go tag yourself. You may have better luck at it than me.
Well, it seems now that I am “Pending.” That’s good.