Ah, to slump back into the comfort of my old blog. Like a well-worn armchair that so easily conforms to the shape of my bottom, with armrests on which to relax tired limbs, a moment to pause and reflect: What is the meaning of it all?
Joel Cheesman posts monster.com hates free speech following up on his previous and rather provocative monster is a crap product video starring Jobster chief Jason Goldberg. Joel Cheesman quotes Monster.com’s very own Rich Teplitsky who is the Director, Global Corporate Communications and who is seeking to have the video suppressed. Golly, isn’t that kind of gulaggy?
I called Rich Teplitsky but he wasn’t there. I called the covering extension and left a message for a delightful sounding Katheryn Burns. I’m sure she’ll call me back, I do hope so. She sounds very professional.
I want to ask whether Monster.com has accounted for the possibility that if some people take to posting/linking to the video they may have inadvertently created the potential for an altogether different kind of monster to raise its ugly head among the recruiting bloggers, and who knows where? I mean, what if a lot of people started to post the video, or for neophytes like me, linked to it instead? This thing could get really big, you know, like really horrible. After all, we bloggers are very influential you know, we know crap when we see it. Some of us are well connected too.
Now, many would argue that Monster.com is not a totally crap product at all. Further reading of the blogs will attest to that, as would millions of satisfied users. But, as Mother used to say, “Handsome is as handsome does” and I’m sure we could say the same about crap behavior too, don’t you?
Anyway, in protest at this heavy-handed nonsense, as soon as I can find it, I am taking my resume down off Monster.com and posting it up on Joel Cheesman’s answer to every jobseekers prayer – Blogs With Jobs – as soon as I work out how to get it up there.
Having read recent posts and comments ad nausea about the vacuous nature of recruiting blogs, I am thinking twice about whether to comment myself on two important new developments at the center of gravity for this corrupt band of self-interested, self-important, self-promoting and self-indulgent pseudo-recruiters – Recruiting.com.
To hell with it! I will not be cowered by convention or conventional people. For as long as I cause no serious offense to the public-at-large, or breaches of national security, I will blog as I please – to please you I hope – but in the final analysis, because I have an idea and I want to think through, or an opinion to voice, or something to share, or a spare five minutes between spasms.
Important new development number one: As recently predicted, the new-look Recruiting.com is now running a few innocuous banner ads, with more to come. And, why not? God forbid someone should make enough dosh blogging to pay the bills. I have already asked for a media kit so I can forward the information to potential advertisers, thinking even candidates might want to pay the freight for such marvelous exposure.
Important new development number two: Despite suggestions from luminary John Sumser to the contrary, Jason Davis continues to bring his personal charisma to Recruiting.com, helping people connect, as is his forte. In his post Let’s Make A Deal, Jason Davis not only does what he does best, that is broking deals and throwing down gauntlets – even at the expense of potential advertisers – but comforts us that advertising on Recruiting.com does not mean an immediate stop to shilling for the products and services we love, like Jason Davis does for ZoomInfo.
Jason is very clever. Recruiting.com wants and needs advertisers. Vendors want and need Jason Davis’s endorsements. Either way “product placement” is a sure-fired way to monetize your blog – assuming you have enough self-interested, self-important, self-promoting and self-indulgent pseudo-recruiters backing you up.
Keep plugging.
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