I'm afraid some people spend their time speak the bleedin' obvious - and many people need to hear it! What makes it worse is that this bloke doesn't even write his own blogs.
Mitch Sullivan is my favourite recruiting blogger. I suspect you might enjoy his style. Start here perhaps: http://fasttrackrecruitment.com/blog/its-friday-right. You'll often find him bursting the balloons of people who normally speak out of their backside.
I warn you you may not agree with him, but his brings a pretty bright torch to the murky waters of recruitment.
The first comment I can give you if you're going to blog is use Wordpress.com (but I guess you've found that?....) My usual blog is at http://corporatehandyman.co.uk/blog - not sure if you've bumped into it yet. It's embedded into my website and drives traffic to my normal website at +100 visits a day. It has earned me business, and many of my client read it (despite it's sometimes about them!0
My all time favourite blogger is the Magic Sausage. It's got nothing to do with recruiting, but the author is working in UK local government after a career in the private sector. He has a refreshing view. His style is very engaging. perhaps this is a good place to start: http://magicsausage.com/2013/11/02/european-funding-the-gift-that-d...
Don't fret about treading on anybody's toes. Most of them can't keep it up after they've though of three different subjects.....
Sorry Paul I can't think of any reason, good or bad, to have a paypal button on a headhunters blog. Come to think of it, I can think of lots of reasons no to...
I'm afraid there are too many 'experts' who need a poke in the eye.
The only tip I can give you is to start. It doesn't matter if you make technical errors, because if it's well-written, it's well-written, and you'll learn as you go. It's fun to do and will attract an audience if you're consistent in your views.
Sadly, as you pointed out earlier, you'll get an audience if even you write bollocks (UK English for rubbish), but that's probably not an audience you'd want to attract.
Good luck with it. I suspect you may enjoy it - and so will your readers.
Don't try to please all the people all the time..... but I suspect you're already well aware of that.....
Paul. You're no wizard, but you are looking for the signals we all give away about ourselves. It can be in a smile, eye contact, body position, photograph or LinkedIn profile (people often tell me way more about themselves by their activity here than they realise). On thinking, you've made me aware that people on these blogs (me included) talk about the use of psychometrics, but I can't remember the last time somebody wrote about body language - perhaps I can do one soon!
I liken all this stuff to dancing. You have to listen to the music and go with it. Early times you'll trip over you're own feet, but soon you'll have the rhythm and be knocking out a fandango with the best of them - but it doesn't work if you care when people are watching. Then, you stay in yourself and make little progress.
This isn't magic, but it is a great tool - among many available to us if we're open to their use.
Martin Ellis
Paul,
I'm afraid some people spend their time speak the bleedin' obvious - and many people need to hear it! What makes it worse is that this bloke doesn't even write his own blogs.
Mitch Sullivan is my favourite recruiting blogger. I suspect you might enjoy his style. Start here perhaps: http://fasttrackrecruitment.com/blog/its-friday-right. You'll often find him bursting the balloons of people who normally speak out of their backside.
I warn you you may not agree with him, but his brings a pretty bright torch to the murky waters of recruitment.
Mar 6, 2014
Martin Ellis
Hi Paul,
So THAT'S what you're up to.....
The first comment I can give you if you're going to blog is use Wordpress.com (but I guess you've found that?....) My usual blog is at http://corporatehandyman.co.uk/blog - not sure if you've bumped into it yet. It's embedded into my website and drives traffic to my normal website at +100 visits a day. It has earned me business, and many of my client read it (despite it's sometimes about them!0
My all time favourite blogger is the Magic Sausage. It's got nothing to do with recruiting, but the author is working in UK local government after a career in the private sector. He has a refreshing view. His style is very engaging. perhaps this is a good place to start: http://magicsausage.com/2013/11/02/european-funding-the-gift-that-d...
Don't fret about treading on anybody's toes. Most of them can't keep it up after they've though of three different subjects.....
Mar 6, 2014
Martin Ellis
Sorry Paul I can't think of any reason, good or bad, to have a paypal button on a headhunters blog. Come to think of it, I can think of lots of reasons no to...
I'm afraid there are too many 'experts' who need a poke in the eye.
The only tip I can give you is to start. It doesn't matter if you make technical errors, because if it's well-written, it's well-written, and you'll learn as you go. It's fun to do and will attract an audience if you're consistent in your views.
Sadly, as you pointed out earlier, you'll get an audience if even you write bollocks (UK English for rubbish), but that's probably not an audience you'd want to attract.
Good luck with it. I suspect you may enjoy it - and so will your readers.
Don't try to please all the people all the time..... but I suspect you're already well aware of that.....
Mar 6, 2014
Martin Ellis
Paul. You're no wizard, but you are looking for the signals we all give away about ourselves. It can be in a smile, eye contact, body position, photograph or LinkedIn profile (people often tell me way more about themselves by their activity here than they realise). On thinking, you've made me aware that people on these blogs (me included) talk about the use of psychometrics, but I can't remember the last time somebody wrote about body language - perhaps I can do one soon!
I liken all this stuff to dancing. You have to listen to the music and go with it. Early times you'll trip over you're own feet, but soon you'll have the rhythm and be knocking out a fandango with the best of them - but it doesn't work if you care when people are watching. Then, you stay in yourself and make little progress.
This isn't magic, but it is a great tool - among many available to us if we're open to their use.
Mar 7, 2014