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Blog Post: Fantasy Football: It’s that time of year again. Fantasy Football. Seems like it is everywhere. The popularity of fantasy football shows how fun it is to put together an unrealistic team and to go compete with…; Added by Todd Kmiec at 12:26pm on September 15, 2017

Topic: Fantasy Football Fans? (RBC-Only League.?.): Anyone interested in playing in a Fantasy Football League . . . open to only RBC members? Don't worry - I'll take it easy on ya :P Josh; Added by Joshua Letourneau at 1:27pm on August 22, 2008

Blog Post: Fantasy Football and Recruiting – A marriage made on the cyber gridiron?: I have some wild ideas about how to attract and source for applicants. After all, I have been in the “Internet Recruiting” space since 2000 and have watched applicant traffic…; Added by Doug Kerken at 7:37pm on September 14, 2010

Comment on: Blog Post 'Fantasy Football and Recruiting – A marriage made on the cyber gridiron?': ked up your ideas and concepts with accurate data from disparate sources. You know our philosophy and the numbers -nice brownie points. What some seem to forget, is that there are psychological issues at play when sourcing candidates. Referrals, job postings, resume databases, root mining, search mining, social networks, mobile users and on and on. Candidates are people, like you and I and they have feelings. They have their online comfort zone, their happy places, their hobby and interest groups etc. People are most receptive when comfortable and secure. Happy people are more receptive and trusting. It just is, so looking at this pool of potential candidates is no different than looking at any other like group. Are the folks playing Fantasy Football any more or less desirable than folks on FaceBook? I don't have the stats to tell you, we'll get them, but I'm certain the cross over is significant. As we know, the key is in the message and timing of delivery. I'm quite confident if the message was crafted correctly that you would indeed see a response. Every group, small and large are made up of individuals and I would think that 27 million is a large enough group to contain some individuals very well suited for our clients open positions. Not viewing this group as an opportunity, is to say that the 27Million playing fantasy football have no value in the workforce. We now know that the Fantasy Football group is receptive and eager to forward messages to their trusted friends within the leagues. One of the highest conversion rates we have seen, but not enough data to confirm the qualitative value of the campaigns. I agree 100% with Scott, we always hire competitive candidates and fantasy football players are some of the most competitive out there. I think you stumbled on something here my friend! Let's hope nobody else reads this blog :) Oops just saw it went out in the email. Great post and great find!…; Added by Chris Amato at 12:04pm on September 16, 2010

Comment on: Blog Post 'Fantasy Football and Recruiting – A marriage made on the cyber gridiron?': amp; Advice, perfectseasonffb.com that I love and have fun at. In addition to my general love of Fantasy Football, that demographic info you cited is exactly what spurred me to action to have a site at all. In our Recruiting & BizDev roles, we all are anxious to network and bond with diverse personalities who perhaps share a common interest with ourselves. Perhaps we can then add mutually beneficial value down the line with them--professionally as well as personally. Those demographics shout out that many Fantasy Sports Players seem to to not only have passion for their sports, but also passion for their careers. Isn't that "passion" a key to being a Top Performer? And, of course, to win the "War for Talent" it is essential to bring those Top Performers into your pipeline--whether they be an active or passive Candidate, or even a potential Client. I am totally on-board with your most creative sourcing take on our mutually admirable hobby!…; Added by Scott Sachs at 3:36pm on September 15, 2010

Comment on: Blog Post 'Fantasy Football and Recruiting – A marriage made on the cyber gridiron?': ntial job opportunity brings the wrath and scorn of everyone that reads the recruiter's post. Now you're suggesting that companies post random job ads and their internal recruiting groups look for ways to solicit random participants of Fantasy Football leagues? What's even more hilarious is that HR already gets enough flack from management about the number of unqualified applicants already burying companies with resumes. Mind you, these resumes must be stored and maintained at cost. As you point out, this is absolutely a "shotgun approach" which actually comes across to potential candidates as desperate. And who are you targeting anyway? The guy that does just enough work not to get fired? Give me a break. On the bright side, you could probably make millions by developing some app that helps the latest herd of recruiting flunkies source the hidden gems of talent lurking online playing Fantasy Football. Sounds like a future Careerbuilder tech company acquisition to me.…; Added by Bill Ward at 2:57pm on September 15, 2010

Comment on: Blog Post 'Death Knell of Hiring As we Know It': ch. Unless you're Apple or Starbucks I doubt you'll have many people actively participating. You'll have some sign up when they're in the middle of a job search - they may read a few of your emails - then they'll get a job somewhere and a few months later wonder why they're getting all this career spam and hit the REMOVE link. I've given up on this "community" thing as a strategy long ago. It's a farce. Why do we call a simple contact info database a community now? That aside - what of any of this K.C. gets to your point of ensuring a "quality hire"?…; Added by Jerry Albright at 10:21am on August 14, 2010

Blog Post: Are You a Fair-Weather Boss?: As football season comes to an end, the…; Added by Sean Pomeroy at 3:03pm on January 6, 2014

Comment on: Blog Post 'The 2% Difference': a poor leader can turn a group of A's into C's in no time flat. Thirdly, so much depends on external, and sometimes random, elements such as the markets, the individuals on a team, and the lifecycle of the organization in question, that it's not possible to win every time. Finally, some roles (esp. creative and leadership roles) are characterized by "punctuated equilibrium" whereby performances can be all over the map. One only has to look at the worlds of sports and entertainment to notice that many so called "A" players often fail and so called "C" players often rise, confounding everyone's expectations and costing (or making) a ton of money. I suggest these pro-forma (fantasy football) calculations of the cost of A, B, and C players are not likely to play out in reality and a better way to approach it would be using more of a winning vegas gambler's (or Wall Street) approach: understand that there will be winning, losing, and push bets, so that by making careful bets each time, not swinging for the fences but not dribbling around either, and not getting overly focused on the outcome of any individual bet, over time, you will outperform the house (or the S&P), or the competition. Shooting for the moon every time is a sure way to crap out, if you ask me. Sounds great in theory, but it puts you on on the curb in real life. So maybe the thing is to do your best, don't take too many flyers, and don't sweat the A's B's and C's because they are mostly out of anyone's control.…; Added by Martin H.Snyder at 10:17pm on April 10, 2010

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