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?

As I continue to wrestle with the potential and problems that go with my efforts I am coming to accept that I cannot always grasp enough of what it all means, reminded of the adage: “There is no comfort in the learning zone and there is no learning in the comfort zone.”

Amidst my current bout of self-examination I can at least say why I started blogging: I wanted to be more involved in the online conversations about my work-related passion and interests, coming to understand at the same time how to use social media to help reposition my then employer RCI Recruitment Solutions. A simple enough task or so you’d think, not! As it turned out the “conversation” too often fell on deaf ears, the audience preoccupied with other things. C’est la vie…

Moving on, I could probably come up with a safe list as to why my blogging continues to add value to my business, throwing in an occasional white paper and assorted hype for good measure. However, when all is said and done, for me blogging remains an intensely personal process. It is a process that I remain committed to on many levels, more so now that I am redefining my own practice, itself a work in progress.

Trying to figure out how to make blogging work — figuratively and literally — is, indeed, a fascinating study, worth wrestling with. Above all else, it is a highly adaptable medium and almost seamlessly adjusts to my ongoing experimenting and reinvention. Where else could you get away with the stopping, starting, tripping and falling, changing looks and the rules of grammar every five minutes and pass all that off as authentic, the nature of the beast?

Ah, yes, blogging…and in the Recruitosphere no less!

Applying some of what I’ve learned about blogging in a bubble in a series of posts might make a closer examination of all this reflective stuff easier to digest. For sure, the long, obscure and esoteric posts that have fed my critics in the past may be too much for even me to stomach now, what with changing tastes and all.

More, as I begin to unraveling a web of spaghetti-thinking I am reluctant to bite off more than I can chew in a single sitting, more than you might want to watch me slurping up. Who knows? I guess we’ll just have to wait and see, won’t we?