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What does it take to attract a VC to your Company/Idea?

A couple years back I worked with Venture Capitalists in the high tech space. I wrote this article after observing so many companies and people trying their best to attract and secure venture funding for their company or idea.

While this article doesn't address recruiting specifically [my chosen passion] it in a big picture manner of speaking can be very relevant to recruiting.

Where there is money invested, recruiting is sure to…

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Added by Brenda DePas on June 19, 2007 at 7:24pm — No Comments

What makes a "great" resume?

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On one of my LinkedIn forum groups the question was asked... What makes a great resume? I couldn't resist the opportunity to respond ...

What makes a resume great?…

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Added by Brenda DePas on June 19, 2007 at 7:13pm — No Comments

Fashionably Late

So, I have finally arrived, fashionably late as usual. Something I think is tremendously overrated - punctuality. It doesn't matter what time I leave - I am notoriously late. Something else I am really bad about - RSVP'ing to something and changing my mind at the last minute. I'm not sure why, I think my attention span must be shortening...

Added by Ragan Kellams on June 19, 2007 at 12:01pm — No Comments

Quote for the Day: Tuesday, June 19th, 2007

On the future of recruiting technology...

"The hope is that, in not too many years, human brains and computing machines will be coupled together very tightly, and that the resulting partnership will think as no human brain has ever thought and process data in a way not approached by the information-handling machines we know today."

J. C. R. Licklider, Man-Computer… Continue

Added by Amitai Givertz on June 19, 2007 at 9:02am — No Comments

Plagiarism

Jason wrote a me a little note on this topic not too long ago, but just in the past week I've been hit twice by well-meaning individuals who I am flattered have gotten some use out of the information on my blog but have neglected to use quotation or post a link back to my blog and the original post(s). Here is the latest example from an ERE group:

...pulled from ERE group SOURCING Tools and Methodologies:(…

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Added by Amybeth Hale on June 18, 2007 at 12:00pm — 1 Comment

From HR Marketer

...the survey also found that more than half of buyers had visited a blog

and 43 per cent had listened to a podcast. The survey recommended

suppliers increase their visibility to buyers via these methods.

Read the rest here

HRmarketer Blog

It's nice that people are giving this visibility. It's nice to know that the Recruiting… Continue

Added by Slouch on June 18, 2007 at 10:44am — No Comments

Quote for the Day: Monday, June 18th, 2007

On communal blogging and "free speech"...

"Yes, you own your own words. But you also own the tone that you allow on any blog or forum you control. Part of "owning your own words" is owning the effects of your behavior and the editorial voice you foster...Shock radio hosts encourage abusive callers; a mainstream talk radio show like NPR's Talk of the Nation wouldn't hesitate to cut someone off who started spewing… Continue

Added by Amitai Givertz on June 18, 2007 at 7:04am — 2 Comments

International Staffing Perspectives:An De Jonghe, CEO, Ulysses Consulting, Belgium - Fourth In A Series

Fourth In A Series

An De Jonghe is an accomplished recruitment Entrepreneur with 10 years

experience in Human Resources and Information Technology. She Started

her first company at the age of 24 and today serves as CEO and

co-founder of Ulysses Consulting, an executive search firm with an ICT

industry emphasis. Her maiden language being Dutch, she also speaks

fluently in French, English and… Continue

Added by Dave Mendoza on June 18, 2007 at 6:46am — No Comments

From the Archives: Monday, October 31st, 2005

68 Posts

" 'What the hell are you thinking?' Why put in the effort and time and heartache when it [blogging] doesn’t make any money?

Actually the math is pretty simple. I am investing in my network, contributing to my community of practice (in this case my community of practice is people who believe that talent is more valuable than capital) and want to be part of the next… Continue

Added by Amitai Givertz on June 17, 2007 at 7:30am — No Comments

A RecruitingBlogs.com Review

Richard Becker who says with confidence that the Recruiting Blogosphere is miles ahead of other industry blog like communities wrote something very nice and promising about RecruitingBlogs.com

Thanks Richard

Added by Slouch on June 16, 2007 at 1:59pm — 1 Comment

See my profile on: LinkedIn | ERE | Plaxo | Tribe | Xing | Ryze Ccontact me via IM: MSN | AOL | Y! | SkypeRead my Book: Electronic Recruiting 101 My Award Winning CyberSleuthing Blog My Bio Join Cyb…

See my profile on: LinkedIn | ERE | Plaxo |…

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Added by Shally Steckerl on June 16, 2007 at 2:30am — No Comments

Epithet pronounced dead 8:45am this morning!

http://www.recruitingbloggers.com/rbs/2007/06/subject_line_ep.html

Added by Epihet on June 15, 2007 at 1:56pm — No Comments

A Very Successful Fordyce Forum from what I Hear

Congrats to a very successful first Fordyce Forum. Dave Manaster showed

some real genius when he acquired it. He showed some more genius when

he took it on the road and I am sure we will see a third example in the

next 12 months.

Craig Silverman had this to say about it:

I was very impressed with the attendees at Fordyce. Congrats to Dave

Manaster and Paul Hawkinson on getting 175 big… Continue

Added by Slouch on June 15, 2007 at 1:18pm — No Comments

Your network is only as good as you make it

We hear about all of these social networking tools online. I think each tool out there has its own pros and cons, but like a database it is only as good as the effort you put in to utilize it. I recently did a quick audit on my contacts in LinkedIn and realize that 95% of my contacts are in the staffing industry. Now that is good to one degree, but also showed that my network lacked diversity. However one of my colleagues who is a recruiter has nothing but SAP candidates as her contacts,…

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Added by Kevin Harry on June 15, 2007 at 11:33am — 3 Comments

Quote for the Day: Friday, June 15th, 2007

On defining quality employees...

"Most organizations do not have any definition of a "quality employee," nor do they even have a performance management system that is anything better than a popularity contest….suffice it to say that before any performance can be assessed, the organization has to have a clear idea of what good or exceptional performance looks like. It needs to have longitudinal studies of its best performers so that a pattern of actions,… Continue

Added by Amitai Givertz on June 15, 2007 at 9:23am — No Comments

Recruiting Roadshow Unconference Coming To Minneapolis, July 20th At Best Buy HQ

Many weeks ago I contacted my local career blogging colleagues about getting together for…

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Added by Paul DeBettignies on June 14, 2007 at 3:10pm — No Comments

!!! Whoo - hoo I am a "runner up" !!! ;-) Congrat's to Jeff, the big winner ;-)

Yayhoo - I'm a winner !!!

I can't wait to get my hands on the book I have won.

Thanks Maureen.

RE: 2nd Ever RecruitingBlogs.com contest!

posted 6/8/2007 at 5:08 a.m. PT

WINNER…

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Added by Brenda DePas on June 14, 2007 at 1:02pm — 2 Comments

Quote for the Day: Thursday, June 14th, 2007

On slacking off...

"Slack allows innovative projects to be pursued because it buffers organizations from the uncertain success of these projects, fostering a culture of experimentation"

Nitin Nohria & Sumantra Ghoshal, The Differentiated Network: Organizing… Continue

Added by Amitai Givertz on June 14, 2007 at 12:55pm — No Comments