Mar 24, 2011
Recruitopian Footnotes [March 24, 2011]
- Is “social recruiting” really such a new idea? I think not. After all, affiliate marketers [read: MLM] have been at it for years. Taking self-reference and self-fulfilling prophecy to the next multi-level…Black Belt Recruiting. Some lessons for us all.
- So, you think “Sourcing Samurai” Glen Cathey can slice through the data on LinkedIn, huh? Think twice, no, three times: Understanding Web 3.0 as Data: Reid Hoffman, Founder LinkedIn.
Conclusion: If Glen Cathey is an authority on LinkedIn it might just be question of semantics…if you know what I mean.
- And now for something completely different…Cited in a social recruiting editorial, Florida is, indeed, among the best places to live and work:
“We have all kinds of corruption, violence and scumbaggery. The 9/11 terrorists trained here. Bush read My Pet Goat here. Our elections are colossal cluster#@!*$s”
And to think, I came from missing TruLondon to living in paradise…mind the gap! Personality matters more than platforms
Mar 21, 2011
Need some Recruiting & Sourcing Juice to get you going these days? Feel like you’re connecting with lots of people in the Talent Pool, but they’re not yielding the information you’d like (referrals, intel, leads, “word on the street”, etc.)? Perhaps it’s time to step back and think about the structure of the Talent Pool itself . . .
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Mar 18, 2011
I came across a rather curious feed today, all the more intriguing to find the post ResuWe Employer charges applicants $25 to apply for jobs had, apparently, been removed. I wondered if the author and vested interest, Dan Boersma, had second thoughts about posting dubiously self-serving drivel, or if this was an indulgence of a different kind.
Before a comment of my own, and in fairness to Mr. Boersma who I don’t know from Adam, here is the departed post in its entirety
“In an effort to cut down on the significant increase in unqualified candidate traffic, ResuWe Employer companies can charge job seekers $25 to apply to a job. ResuWe Employer clients have been asking for this feature to reduce the time required to sift through countless resumes and to ensure each job applicant is pre-qualified.
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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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Feb 23, 2011
A short video tutorial, part of the
Playing by the Rules series. Enjoy…
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Feb 23, 2011
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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Dec 17, 2010
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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Oct 1, 2010
Here is the slide deck from my opening remarks given at the Coalition for Independent Living Options‘ recent employers conference and job fair…
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Sep 15, 2010
John Sumser poses some interesting questions in a post on HRExaminer: Structural Unemployment in HR , commenting:
The market will face a dichotomy: a surplus of people with HR resumes and a shortage of people with the right skills. This is how structural employment looks within a single discipline.
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