Best of 4/19/10

Good Morning!

Big News from the Team!

RecruitFest! is back for Fall 2010. For all the latest breaking details, please visit RecruitFest.com or check out this morning's press release!

Featured Blog Posts

Aim to Manage, Not Control Social Recruiting: As the conversation shifts from whether or not to use Social Recruiting to how best to use these new tools; I think one of the foundational principles that companies need to embrace is an aim to manage, not control the interactions. Read more...

Does your client view you as a TRUSTED ADVISOR?: It’s odd to me that in my 16 years in executive search (on both the agency side as well as on the inside within corporate America), I can count on one hand the number of clients that authentically view me as their search trusted advisor. Read more...

Two Ears, Two Eyes and One Mouth....Use in that Order: Back when I started in the recruiting industry, (I can hear you now: “Yeah, yeah. Uphill both ways, against the wind and in 6 feet of snow, you old fart!”) we did not have all the tools we do today. Now, don’t get me wrong - I love our tools. It has made our recruiting efforts much easier however; the only “tool” that has not changed and WILL always remain... Read more...

Shrinkage. A Good Thing?: Shrinkage, shrinkage, there is shrinkage everywhere. I can’t help thinking of George Costanza whenever I hear the word shrinkage. Pool or no pool, we have a lot of shrinkage. In nearly all industries you can look around and you have less competition...Read more...

Cool Tools

We try to build in useful tools to RecruitingBlogs when we can. One that people seem to get a lot of use out of is the search engine for resumes.

You can get a little widget to add to an iGoogle homepage by going here.

Coming Events

It's a packed week that kicks off Recruiting and HR Event Season!

Right Now: TruUSA is meeting in Wisconsin; Laurie joins the LA SHRM contingent down south, PunkRock Style

This Week: RecruitCamp kicks off in Raleigh, NC for the 2nd time around!

Next Month: RecruitDC makes its appearance on the DC social scene; Social Recruiting Summit meets in Minneapolis; HREvolution coalesces in Chicago.

From the Archives:

With a average of 200 new members a week, and over 40 new blog posts a week, it's easy to forget that there is a ton of incredible content just lurking under RecruitingBlogs' lovely exterior. Remember...

Wednesday Wisdom?

Have a great day and get ready to start the week RIGHT!

Last updated by Slouch Apr 19, 2010.

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