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My Job: A Description of Failure

Published by Amitai Givertz on January 1, 2008 in Recruiting. 2 Comments

I thought Lou Adler’s recent post Why You Must Eliminate Job Descriptions was interesting, didn’t you? You did read it, right?

I know I shouldn’t generalize but I can’t help myself in pointing out that readers of online recruiting stuff fall into one of three categories:

  • The first are those who scan the content, hardly pay attention to it and leave feeling that they have just made an earnest attempt to improve their effectiveness as recruiters. In so doing, they believe they actually have;
  • The second are those who read the content and decide as a result to act on it — invariably doing nothing;
  • Third are those who mean to read their favorite gurus, get distracted and never come back, missing something that might help them become more successful — like understanding why we get distracted in the first place.

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The 2008 Recruiting Landscape

Published by Amitai Givertz on December 27, 2007 in Business Matters, Recruiting, Talent Management and Workforce Planning. 1 Comment

Read my take for the coming year just published by ZoomInfo…

Amitai offers a different take, predicting that early adopters of social media for recruiting will remain in the minority. Too few frontline recruiters will risk the perils of transparency in corporate environments that need to mitigate risk and innovation and apply bottom-line metrics instead. As the economics of recruiting come under closer scrutiny with a softening economy and an inability to quantify the ROI on social media, there will be a slowdown in the rate of adoption by recruiters.

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