Recruitopian Footnotes [October 26, 2009]
- U.K. blogger Katharine Robinson [aka The Sourceress] posts Performing Sourcery at The Recruiting Unconference. Hmmm…Nothwithstanding timezones, recruiting unconferences are so yesterday, don’t you know: Jeff Hunter’s Talent Unconference [2007]; John Sumser’s Recruiting Roadshow [2008]; Jason Davis’s RecruitFest [2008/09]; Susan Burns’ Talent Camp [2009] and some I’ve missed, I’m sure. Now, Bill Boorman’s The Recruitment Unconference taking place in London on 19th November…a sign of the times, no doubt.
- In Feel Sorry for the Recruiter… Lisa Kaye laments that recruiters “worry if they will wind up on the other side of the desk, interviewing for jobs that well frankly are no longer in high demand.” Look on the bright side: if they ever make it back into recruiting they’ll have a better grasp of what “candidate experience” really means. That should make them better recruiters, don’t you think? [Counterpoint: My Future in Recruiting]
- In his post It’s all about the message Michael Specht rightly notes: “…that clearly communicating the employment deal up front is a critical first step in having an engaged employee,” going on to say, “Employees who blog openly and honestly will allow prospective employees to see what it is really like in your workplace.”I guess shooting the messenger is out of the question then, eh, Michael?
Recruitopian Footnotes [September 22, 2009]
- One would hope that tutoring in the Stanislavski method could improve the chances of every job seeker…fake it ’til you make it, buddy!
- The firing will continue until morale improves…makes perfect sense to me.
- “Some are born to be waiters on Broadway and others have waiting in the wings thrust upon them…” Chad Sowash waxes lyrical, seeks drama award…what can I tell you?
Recruitopian Footnotes [September 21, 2009]
- Is it distracted driving, one too many potholes, or both? Putting it bluntly…your manager is a dope.
- You take the high road, I’ll take the low road but remember…You Can’t Have it Both Ways
- Tut-tut. Mr. Hunter throws poor Jim under the bus. Well, better than “threw the windscreen,” no?
Recruitopian Footnotes [July 10, 2009]
- Who said: “A wise person should have money in their head, but not in their heart” - John Sullivan, John Sumser or Jonathan Swift? Such studious fellows all…Rub-a-Dub-Dub
- Erecting the new recruiting edifyce…Bob the Builder meets Smiling Bob
- “When we win, we all win.” So, what happens when we’re counting the rations?…Man overboard!
Recruitopian Footnotes [July 9, 2009]
- 30-seconds in blogging is all it takes, to post that is. Like the author says: “It’s not what you say but how you present it.” So true.
- What is the difference between an essay and a blog post? Well, it ain’t thirty seconds, ducky!
- And I quote: “A recruiter is a consultant…To get in bed with your client put on your consultative head.” Whatever happened to nurses in suspenders?
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.
It seems the politicos at The Society for Human Resource Management (SHRM) have teamed up with JobTarget marketeers and are set to publish a 2009 Job Board Savings Book.
Apparently, you can use the coupons at over 1,000 niche, diversity and regional job boards that are slashing up to half the price on their job postings, all to help make the world go round. Think of it as cross between an economic stimulus package and a licked-to-go Green Shield Stamps program.
In times of economic collapse it is only natural that the industry’s leadership should bandy together and step up to the plate. Rewarding good behavior [buying postings] and facilitating commerce [direct marketing] is not a bad thing. To the contrary, it is a good thing. And programs like this are quintessentially American, aren’t they?
Continue reading ‘Stack ‘em High and Sell ‘em Cheap…Job Postings That Is’
Part 3 in my Food for Thought series…
Like most short posts a quick read can leave one happy that one’s brain has not been taxed too much — blah-blah-blah, click-click-click and move on. After all, its only blogging…junk food.
Sometimes — depending on your mood or interests perhaps — short posts can leave you hungry for more. Some posts may even show you were to find something chunkier, albeit on a self-serve basis. Whatever, empty calories — however delicious — will leave you malnourished if that’s all you digest.
Today, my present to you is the gift of choosing what you want to do with this little morsel. You can click-click-click and move on. If you like you can bookmark this page, bury it like a bone and dig it up later. Maybe you’ll enjoy the joke tucked away behind one of the links, even if it’s on you! You pick, it’s your post now.
The series so far…
Chew ‘em over again. I’m told my blogging is an acquired taste.
‘The See-Through CEO’ » Amitai Givertz’s Blogversity Blog
Wired posts The See-Through CEO that explores the advantage corporate top-dogs gain from understanding and managing transparency as a strategic tool. The article weighs the pros and cons of radical transparency — as questionable a term as “totally honest” as if to suggest there are degrees of integrity — and cites some examples worth thinking about.
Read the rest of this entry » ‘The See-Through CEO’
RecruitingBlogs.com – a recruiting blog about recruiting blogs – how delicious.
Now I have a place to apply some of what I understand to be the value in the recursive nature of blogging which was difficult to grasp when I flirted with the not-quite-so-self-referential RecruitingBloggers.com and the issues of cross-posting. I think I also understand now some of the payoff for “digesting” as opposed to ruminating, giving back more than I am taking I hope. We’ll see.
I was rather pleased with my first post on RecruitingBlogs.com, The Virtue of Short Posts. Unfortunately, it seems only John Sumser got the joke. Maybe.
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