Amitai Givertz’s Recruitomatic Blog

First bowler-hatted gentleman I can say was worth listening to. Interesting…

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The Future of Work examines the challenges to conventional notions of work and organization brought on by new digital technologies and trends. As the velocity of change increases, institutions and individuals must adapt. Yet many structures, including those in education, government, business and the economy, often remain rooted in the past.

The report captures the insights of the Nineteenth Annual Aspen Institute Roundtable on Information Technology, where business leaders, technologists, international politicians, academics and innovators explored how global structures and institutions are being confronted by the 21st century realities of distributed knowledge, crowdsourcing, open platforms and networked environments.

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Dear Mr. Hoffman,

Thanks for your letter of recognition you so kindly sent me today.

The body is below.

My response is below that.

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It is a well known trick that has been spun out a million times before: announce bad news on Fridays. Not that the highly anticipated HRExaminer Top 25 HR Influencers List published today should be viewed as bad news. To the contrary. The list of seasoned blogebrities and HR A-listers is wonderful news for both the influential elite and those of us who are proud to be among the industry’s most easily led.

I am afraid that the bad news today emanates from me, yours truly. But please, don’t shoot the messenger.

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When I got home from the TRULondon conference (more about that later), I discovered that my son had terminated his Facebook account. I was surprised by the level of concern I felt. Cut off from the constant flow of information bits about his life, I felt worry and sense of loss.

Ray’s patterned release of status updates gave me the feeling of being clued in. The dribs and drabs of online small talk were a convenient substitute for real connectedness. The mere threat of losing that connection created a palpable fear in my heart.

Right there, after my parental instinct to fix something, was a series of surprising insights.

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There’s something not quite right when one sues a failed bank. I mean, it just sounds so spiteful, counter intuitive even, don’t you think? But so it goes with Wendy M. Uvino, the would-be heroine in today’s Wall Street Journal post, Former Lehman HR Chief Sues Failed Bank For $500,000.

While one is inclined to sympathize with Ms. Uvino as she fights the good fight, sticking it to the man as it were, I can’t help feeling that the plaintiff is more concerned with bread-and-butter needs than seeking her just deserts.

Consider…

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John Sumser and I have had many conversations on the nature of work and the subjugation of the human spirit.  I cannot say why it is a recurring theme in our conversation except that it is.

You can read John at his finest on the subject on the GlassDoor.com blog: Why Workers Get Left Behind.

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Following the roasting of a fellow Schwabelite in How to destroy your reputation by self promotion with special guest, Irina Shamaeva! Dave Mendoza follows up with a video: NJ Governor Christie Rips into Govt bureaucratic mess Over One Page Error.

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I just read Kris Dunn’s post It’s Not You, It’s Me… Why I’m Leaving a Great Job… and threw up.

I don’t know Kris Dunn personally, nor his circumstances or motivation. There is no reason why his post should have evoked such a strong reaction in me except that he is marking in time that point in my own journey that I can only describe as…well, I threw up, need I say more?

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Thank you Mr. Zappe for pointing to TalentHole in your recent ERE article Have Your Problem Employee Removed and Get a T-Shirt. I share your disappointment that the service is a bait and switch, outplacement not replacement being the cuckoo here.

Back in the early 1980′s I worked for a London-based subsidiary of  NYNEX. The banking system sales were large and complex. There were many people in the prospects’ organization who could scupper a sale and for any number of reasons. We called them Heretics. It was not an uncommon practice when a heretic became a problem that a City-headhunter was called in to hire that person out of the organization, greasing the skids for an easier, highly profitable outcome. As I recall that practice was called, ironically, bait and switch.

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Rogue recruiter and sausage salesman David Perry was nice enough to include me as one of the co-authors in his recently published, run-away best-seller, Guerrilla Marketing for Job Seekers 2.0. Yowzer!

If you’re lucky enough you might still pick up a copy on Amazon.com. If you’re really, really lucky you won’t need to.

The chapter I wrote is entitled Guerrilla Googling and the Job Hunters’ Dashboard.

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Before realizing that Google’s products and services can be configured to meet the needs of recruiters like me [see G-Recruiter.com] I spent a good bit of time tinkering with a few “free” applicant tracking systems. Not that there are that many to choose from, Zoho People impressed me the most, not because it was any good — actually, I thought is was a piece of crap — but because their customer service  was absolutely amazing.

During our hours [and hours] trying to fix bugs and get things working one of the support-wallahs told me a new module for recruiters was being released in a “few weeks.”  That was almost a year ago.

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