Mar 5, 2011
Industry patriarch and beloved Dumbledorian John Sumser posts on HRExaminer another in his series on branding: Traffic Development. What follows will make more sense if you begin by reading John’s post and our exchange of comments. You may also want to use the restroom first.
I spent a good amount of time trying to post what follows to the original post in reply to a rebuff from John. To no avail. Apparently a plug-in on John’s site may have become unplugged. Feel free to post your comments here or there, at this point it may not matter.
Anyway, reluctant to break the thread, or retire for the night with this undone, here is my closing argument…
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Aug 26, 2010
As of the time of this writing there are somewhere between 10-20,000 online threats associated with recruiter training, maybe more. I should know. Not only have I been responsible for developing my own ingenious countermeasures to threats like Threat 1158: “Hey Buddy, can you spare a dime-a-dozen Boolean string for my [fill in the blank] search?”, and Threat 3823: “I tweet therefore I am #socialrecruiting,” but I may have authored a few threats of my own.
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Mar 1, 2010
Here is a search technique for finding qualified talent and passive candidates in less than 60 seconds. Taken from the series Untangling the Web: Recruiting with Google, Twitter, LinkedIn and most everything in between…, this is “custom search” at its simplest…
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Jul 8, 2009
Recruitopian Footnotes [July 8, 2009]
- John Sumser under the influence?…Shocking but true
- Has Glen Cathey gone native? OMG, we’ve lost him…Dancing with wolves
- This blogger gets the pink Caddie for raising the bar…Lisa Kaye, we salute you!
- To SEO or not to SEO? That is the question.
Jul 4, 2009
Geoff Peterson is a Master at his craft; some goodies from the Master…
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Mar 30, 2009
John Sumser’s controversial post Digging Into RecruitingBlogs.com v2.08: The Death of Sourcing has has inspired a great debate about the state of our industry and the area of specialization we call “Sourcing.”
John suggests that “Former sourcing luminaries will be familiarizing themselves with the alarm on the French fry machine and the relative difference between Rare, Medium and Well done.”
Oh, dear.
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Nov 6, 2008
Some time ago my wife was suffering from a persistent abdominal pain. A kind neighbor who learned that medical science had failed us for years came over to lay hands on my missus and pray with the family.
Our apostolic neighbor got to work and in no time was possessed. She began uttering some unknown prayer that was only coherent to God and herself.
While it seemed quite possible that everyone else in the room was being transported to a higher place, I found myself being teleported to the Appalachian foothills where one imagines spirits of a different sort give voice to an equally unintelligible, if not distilled, form of incantation.
Somehow, in my befuddled Hebraic interpretation of what was going on I confused the “charismatic church” with the “charismatic me” and foolishly decided to apply the lessons of the day to some healing of my own.
Without going in to the pathetic details of my amorous overtures — or my completely missing the point with the snake metaphor — suffice it to say, getting lickered up, and my own very clumsy “laying on of hands,” resulted in my waking up the next day with a thick head and a lip to match. Go figure.
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Feb 15, 2008
Here are the slides from my presentation for the Human Capital Institute and the first in their Talent Acquisition Learning Track which is sponsored by Trovix.
I am answering some of the questions from attendees here, in the comments. Feel free to chip in.
Don’t miss Jim Durbin and his webcast Talent Scouting and Social Networking: The New Employee Referral Program on Tuesday, February 19th, also for HCI. Register here…
