Recruiting Roadshow, 2007 Conferences and All That Jazz
I enjoyed listening to John Sumser in the Recruiters Lounge this week, stumping for the Recruiting Roadshow. I think the Recruiting Roadshow is a brilliant idea and all for a good cause. It will be interesting to watch how things roll out in 2008. I hope that I have been helpful in some small way getting the thing in motion.
On the same day Jim Stroud posted his interview with Sumser, Shally Steckerl posted his reflections on his year doing the conference thing, linking to one of the posts I wrote on the subject: From the Frontlines to the Home Front: A Different Kind of Conference!
The lessons learned form all this? Well, altogether too many for a quick missive but the most important lesson was maybe this:
Those of “us” who are bound by the niceties of political association, cliquey affiliation, fat-cat business, product to push, thought-bleedership, social status, blogebrity or whatever — those of us who collectively make up the industry’s self-appointed infrastructure — need to get out more. There is nothing quite like seeing 98% of a Roadshow audience — representative of the local recruiting community — bemused by talk of the social networks, blogging and search engine stuff to put things in perspective. Video resumes? Give me a break! Skype? Isn’t that a skin disease?
In a hard, hard world where people still run help-wanted classifieds and equate sourcing with Monster page views some of us could do a lot worse than get to know the people who we are supposed to be serving, then actually serve them — why not?
Lesson learned? Hit the road, Jack — or whatever your name is!
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Amitai Givertz
I should point out, running help-wanted classifieds and using Monster are legit methods recognizing there is a time and a place for everything.
It seems to me that part of the problem is when the tools recruiters use are used by default and not by choice. If you don’t know what new media is or how to use it — and it would appear that is common having polled a couple of representative groups — no amount of knee-jerk recruiting will help when your back is against the wall.
Just thought I clear that up.
Dec 31st, 2007
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