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Blog Post: Attention

There are some out there who think that recruiting is all about sorting through the incredible number of resumes, submissions, and contacts available.

Sorting is a minor first step. The…

Added by Todd Kmiec at 9:40am on October 9, 2017

Photo: Dell Recruiters & Recruitment Display - Attention Getting: "If you're in the business of recruiting then be in the attention getting business as well." Photo & Quote by Valentino Martinez; Added by Valentino Martinez at 12:58pm on September 16, 2012

Blog Post: Recruiters: Stop What You're Doing (please!)

These days there are a plenty of things demanding our attention. There…

Added by Kelly Blokdijk at 10:15pm on July 26, 2016

Topic: Digging Into RecruitingBlogs.com v2.11 Spam Police: ance between value given and value received. Unlike a nation, whose currency is regulated, the internet is a barter economy. What looks like a lot of attention to one might well be insignificant to another. There seems to be a connection between the need for attention and some personality types. My theory is that there is an aspect of personality that is the lens through which attention is viewed. A little attention is too much for some. A lot of attention is too little for others. It's rare to encounter someone who feels that they have it 'just right'. In any case, attention can be intoxicating. In Animal's interview with William Tincup (an amazing series in an amazing website that you ought to peruse), the old howler warmly recalls an episode in which I pointed out the difficult consequences of attention. Then as now, I am sure that micro-celebrity has harsh consequences on its early victims. Managing the glare of the spotlight requires some experience. Virtually everyone makes the same mistakes when first confronted with being 'well known'. When people complain about Spam, they are really complaining about not getting a good return on their attention. Everyone I know is certain that they can easily identify spam when they see it. Usually it boils down to "My very targeted value laden email is your spam and vice versa." In other words, when I consumed your spam, I got less than I gave. The essence of web economics (and any economics) is to give more value that you receive. Spam inverts the formula and takes small increments of value from many, many people. With solid roots in direct marketing theory, spam is one of those excesses that is impossible to correct. Here's why. If the thought police arrive en masse to yell at a supposed spammer, the net result is more and more viewing of the spam. For a relatively small price (unhappy people somewhere out there in cyberspace), a spammer on RBC can have his/her posting held in the spotlight for a very long time. By trying to embarrass the spammer into submission, the lynch mob gives the piece the attention and reach it needs. So, enforcement is exactly what the spammer hopes for. On the other hand, the absence of enforcement leads to being nibbled to death by an avalanche of irritating nonsense. You are damned if you do and damned if you don't. That means good filtering and the willingness to ignore the ridiculous are the base strategies in spam management. Much of the art of building and managing online community is a balancing act. Great community managers have a gift for sensing where the middle of the road is. Rather than policing a problem, they redesign to avoid it. The essence of the approach is to remove the ways that attention is rewarding inappropriate behavior. Sometimes, the community can do this on its own. But, too often, that leads to an intimidating lynch mob. Really great community managers gracefully move the attention away from unwanted behavior. Rule making doesn't work. Policing rewards the bad behavior. Lynch mobs intimidate novices. Public thought experiments (another form of attention robbery) usually tear up the public space disrespectfully. You can tell its going to get nasty when the bullies and attention thieves wrap themselves in the rhetoric of free speech. It's a tactic for the vocal minority to impose order on the majority by making it too risky to write. Claiming free speech while suppressing it is the ultimate mind-fuck. In the best of all worlds, kindness and compassion prevail. Learning to grasp the fact that those letters and pixels on your screen are actually other people is unnatural and takes time. …; Added by John Sumser at 9:42pm on March 19, 2009

Blog Post: Pay Attention to Me! – Scott’s Sales Yoga Thought for the Day

Nothing is more frustrating than when buyers start losing interest, stop paying attention, or appear to be ignoring you completely. Many people wonder, why does this happen?

Like the…

Added by Scott Wintrip at 9:56am on November 7, 2013

Topic: Have any of you come across a job discription that REALLY grabbed you attention?: en, salary info, job site design. The usual. This is the first time a site actually got my attention with a title. Well done. Now thats a cool way to build the Employment Brand. Recruitnik recruitnik.net http://recruitnik.blogspot.com/2007/10/cool-attention-getting-job-discription.html…; Added by Recruitnik at 6:07pm on October 5, 2007

Blog Post: ATTENTION PLEASE!

Is this a:

Carnival Barker? No, but close.

An Evangelist? Sometimes.

A Used Car Salesman? Sometimes.

A Corporate Recruiter?…

Added by Valentino Martinez at 3:53am on June 12, 2011

Comment on: Blog Post 'Is resume optimizing cheating?': purpose of a resume is to get the recruiters attention, this trick gets the attention of the ATS without having to waste space, and getting pulled up in the ATS search is the first step to getting a recruiters attention. Nothing cheap about it.…; Added by Dean Da Costa at 2:51am on August 7, 2012

Blog Post: Resume Typos & English as a Second Language: When I was just getting started in the Recruiting business, a very

successful recruiter told me that one of his red flags was a

typographical or grammatical error in a resume. His point was…; Added by Katie Tierney at 11:03pm on September 17, 2007

Blog Post: Why Recruiters on Your Team Aren’t Listening

Leaders are often frustrated that they have to repeat themselves. Are the recruiters and other staff members on their team not listening?

No, often, they are not.

Short attention…

Added by Scott Wintrip at 8:17am on September 22, 2015