Amitai Givertz’s Recruitomatic Blog

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…

I was watching the telly the other day, something to do with the continuity between China’s ancient history and its modernity evidenced in the spectacles of the Beijing Olympics.  A curator at some Chinese museum was profiled painstaking repairing a terracotta soldier that had seen better days since his exquisite creation not that long after God started his own work in clay.

As he pieced tiny fragments together to reconstruct this noble warrior’s shattered chin — noting it would take at least a year to fix just one of the thousands of these unique figures that needed attention — the curator said he continues to soldier on for the love of his work.  Clearly, in the overall scheme of things his product will have little impact on the course of humanity. But the the type of devotion manifest in labors of love might, don’t you think?

I think I shall attempt to reconstruct some of my fragmented efforts at optimization by consolidating past posts and new ones on my BROWN BAG RECRUITER site.  I believe this is a good way to preserve something that had value at the time it was conceived and which may serve a useful purpose moving forward.

I know some people will bellyache about content regurgitation but I don’t care. I say, if nothing else, labors of love are good for the soul. That was reaffirmed for me the other day looking at the wry smile on a once shattered soldiers face.