I see John Sumser strikes a similar tone to Raghav’s in his post 091018 Recruiting.com. John’s analysis leads me to affirm that while Recruiting.com might make a great case study for a start-up starting over, cool recruiting tools alone rarely, if ever, compensate for lousy internal processes, weak management and a decimated recruiting function.

While technology continues to envision a promising future I wonder how many employers can translate any of it beyond the reordered acronyms of a fancy, near historic sales pitch.

After all, who will the marketers and salespeople target for the progressive solutions like Recruiting.com’s new whiz-bang offering? Why, companies with lousy internal processes, weak management and a decimated recruiting function of course. At best, it’s Methadone for an industry long stupefied by vendors’ peddling the things dreams are made of.

On the bright side, Raghav had no idea that Recruiting.com was a reinvention of  “i-love-me-some-disruptor” Jason Goldberg’s Jobster. The disassociation is a  branding coup for CEO Jeff Seely and his team I think. For those of us who have been around long enough to remember Goldberg’s shenanigans and/or Recruiting.com’s humble beginnings as a trend-setting blog — that is remarkable indeed.

Perhaps Recruiting.com is, as my buddies-in-the-know suggest, deserving of a second look. You decide.

Kick it…The intrinsic value of Recruiting.com beyond it’s earlier googliciouness and rambunctiousness has been reworked by the Recruitosphere’s alchemist Jason Davis. The transfiguration of Recruiting.com in RecruitingBlogs.com has been more than a reinvention. With less emphasis on the blogging bit and dollops of slobber about “community,” Jason Davis has enhanced his reputation for being the guy in the right place at the right time. If nothing else, the passing of Recruiting.com and ascension of RecruitingBlogs.com, — Jason’s hand in both — reminds me that there is indeed a time and place for everything.

…see if moves! No doubt for some, Recruiting.com will continue to serve a purpose. One imagines that when Steven Rothberg, Andy Headworth,  Jason Buss and other longstanding posters stop submitting their articles we might observe the stillness of the corpse, and the decomposition can begin. While revolting to thinkabout blueflies and maggots doing their thing, without their feasting we could never get beyond the off-topic stink. Who knows, I might continue to post my occasional musings on Recruiting.com too, just to appease the SEO gods. On the other hand, continuing to share the love with a stiff Recruiting.com, well, that would be sick — wouldn’t it? Yeah, probably — sacrilegious too.

Nah, its a goner. Oh well, in blogging as in life I guess, all things must come to an end. Otherwise we would never know that it is time to begin again, would we?

At this point I have to ask: “Who cares?” John’s throw-away remark at the end of the Recruiting Animals’ Morning After Show referencing his exit suggests he may feel the same way. Who knows? For sure, for those who look within the Recruitosphere’s publishing clique for amusement it will be amusing in the coming weeks, no doubt.

To my own pathethic contribution…hmmm. Recruiting.com has been an interesting place for me to experiment with a number of ideas some of which fizzled out, some of which sputtered along and some of which remain open-ended.

Moving forward, I shall simply plug my Bunsen into the new mixture of gas and hot air on RecruitingBlogs.com, the combustible bloggy-ning thing where I now spend my early mornings. Like you perhaps?

Ah, Recruitopia…doesn’t it just make you sick?

With the company’s likely implosion at hand, better to make hay while the sun shines, don’t ya fink?

But then again, hold on — I’m in stealth mode! Am I really ready to start drawing attention to myself?

And what about my beloved Recruiting.com, Jobster’s love-child? We don’t want to tick off the new sugar-daddy, do we?