Over recent weeks it would seem that RecruitingBloggers.com has fallen by the wayside. Based on the original “by-the-sweat-of-your-brow-vested-in-me” model for cross-posting it looks like Maureen Sharib might be nearing complete saturation.
On the other hand, the brains behind the group blog – the Recruiting Animal — has picked himself up and dusted himself off, posting on his name-sake blog like the truthiest renaissance man he really is.
Ah, life in the Recruitosphere — where every post counts for something. What perspective!
I was in conversation with a client the other day. We were talking about low-impact blogging as a possible way to reconcile the “wanna blog but don’t have time” and “yeah, I wanna optimize my site” disconnect.
As part of my illustration that the disconnect can be reconciled with relatively little effort we jumped online to look at ways I had addressed this problem in the past. We looked at my Quote for the Day, On the Radar, Recruiting by Numbers and other experiments, managing to cover everything from SEO blah-blah-blah to reputation yada-yada-yada in the space of about 20 minutes.
I’m sure the conversation would have been more fruitful had many of my illustrations not been frustrated by a series of recently vandalized pages, courtsey of Jobster. Clicking through a series of blank pages is hardly a good first step in getting a reticent client to part with more money, is it?
Ho-hum…
Continue reading ‘Redux, Reflux or Reconstruction?’
John Sumser has taken up bird-spotting. In a pastoral post aptly titled Idealization John shares what he has learned about the fowl and the foul in his circumnavigation of Schollenberger Park. Not to be outdone I too have been walking off the pounds around the lake where I live, similarly musing on bird life and the nature of recruiting, the idealized and the real.
Bringing a couple of threads together…
It seems to me that the perennial crowing about the so-called War for Talent is starting to wear a little thin. Perhaps like other well worn marketing glibbery we’ll never quite shake the phrase from our collective consciousness. Among industry old-timers one imagines the phrase will take on the same iconographic status as “go to work on an egg.” Who knows?
Continue reading ‘The Ornithologist’
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