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Writing For Media Snackers

I was recently asked by Valeria Maltoni, Conversation Agent, to participate in a meme. I'm glad she did. And I'm hoping it spills over into the recruitosphere via John Sumser.

The general concept of the meme is about Media Snackers, people who are consuming, creating, and sharing media differently because they can access whatever, whenever, and wherever. (Or, as I’ve said, passive viewers have become active… Continue

Added by Rich on November 2, 2007 at 4:41pm — No Comments

Women Bring It

Women are powerful. But did you know just how much? A couple of weeks ago, I found data to prove the point. A recent study conducted over a four-year span of Fortune 500 companies found that those companies with the highest percentage of women on their boards

saw equity returns 53% higher than those companies with the fewest

number of women on boards.…

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Added by Catherine Horgan on November 2, 2007 at 1:12pm — No Comments

Fridays with Facebook

Here is a great story about how one software company is using Facebook to entertain and retain its employees.

Added by Chris Russell on November 2, 2007 at 1:02pm — No Comments

Diversity.Com To Offer Live and Fully Interactive Electronic Job Fairs

By Dave Mendoza, MasterCybersleuth, Affiliate Partner, JobMachine, Inc.

(720) 733-2022

Diversity.com, a national leader in diversity focused recruitment advertising, announced today it has

partnered with eJobFairs.net, innovators of the electronic job fair

venue, to offer Diversity.com branded…

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Added by Dave Mendoza on November 2, 2007 at 5:00am — No Comments

Kennedy Information Webinar: Uncommon Sourcing Techniques ...

Just heard from Jeanne Sturges at Kennedy Information that over 700 people have already registered for next Tuesday's webinar:

Uncommon Sourcing Techniques that Uncover High Value Talent

It should be a lot of fun and I'm sharing the time with a couple of people

that will make your time on the webinar worthwhile: Chris… Continue

Added by Dennis Smith on November 1, 2007 at 6:05pm — No Comments

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Added by sridevi on November 1, 2007 at 3:37pm — No Comments

The Farce Says It Best About The Recruiting Animal

"he remains UN-safe, Unsterile, UN-kempt and for better or for worse,

uncommercialized and relatively UN-known…shame shame shame on all of

you industry “insiders” who don’t read his blog or listen to his show…

(www.animalshow.com)"

Read the… Continue

Added by Slouch on November 1, 2007 at 10:30am — 6 Comments

Reputation management: Tooling-up recruiters

On the Radar: Thursday, November 1st, 2007

According to London-based monitoring service Reputica:

The long arm of the social web has moved far beyond the Facebook generation in affecting a candidate’s chances of landing their ideal job. As a result, Executive Search firms performing high profile candidate searches - typically main board positions,…

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Added by Amitai Givertz on November 1, 2007 at 8:20am — No Comments

Aggregator Analysis – Round 1: Expired Jobs

Aggregators or vertical search engines have truly arrived in the UK job market in the last six months. They offer the job seeker a single location for their entire job searching needs, but how effective are they?

Aggregators are likely to become more and more important as the job board sector continues to devolve into niche sites and corporate career portals gain traction. With several different…

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Added by Julian Stopps on November 1, 2007 at 6:06am — No Comments

A Social Network for Google Earth?

On the Radar: Wednesday, October 31st, 2007

Paul Harrison writes on Digital Recruiting:

We've been pretty excited about this for a while, but the post 'a Social Network for Google Earth?' on the Google Operating System blog really put some more meat on the…

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Added by Amitai Givertz on October 31, 2007 at 11:30pm — No Comments

Internal Equity – The double edged sword

Once upon a time we lived in the wild west of salary negotiation where many companies had no real constraints placed upon what they could do for a potential employee, but about a decade ago most companies began to put in place internal equity processes so that they could control rising costs, leverage pay (get the most “bang for the buck”), and to insure that no discriminatory hiring practices were in place (nobody likes a lawsuit).

Now I agree that companies need to have these types…

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Added by bill martineau on October 31, 2007 at 4:08pm — No Comments

How to set up a Talent Acquisition Department?

A friend of mine recently asked me how I would set up a Talent Acquisition organization for a $4Billion, 21,000 employee company. Here was my response...

The first thing I would do is define what our revenue per employee number looks like. In this case, it is $190,476. ($4B/21,000)…

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Added by Shea Putnam on October 31, 2007 at 10:33am — 3 Comments

Something that is bothering me....

I attended a recruiting event last night. I don't remember who said the following statment but I was shocked that anyone would say such a thing regarding our profession or industry.

"We are a support group for the company" by referring to their internal recruiting organization.

My thoughts....

Recruiting is the lifeline of any company. Without a steady flow of new talent and the management of talent, any company will not succeed to its highest potential. Recruiting is…

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Added by Shea Putnam on October 31, 2007 at 10:27am — 1 Comment

Halloween Costumes for Work

I had to share....I love this, they describe one costume..."The Blackberry."

Halloween Costumes for Work

Added by Recruitnik on October 31, 2007 at 1:07am — No Comments

ERE Expo - Pre Conference Workshop D

The second pre-conference I attended was Kevin Wheeler's presentation on Techniques & Tools to Adapt Technologies for Workforce Planning. His approach to workforce planning is not tactical because ........

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Added by Jonathan Rosenberg on October 30, 2007 at 9:43pm — No Comments

Halloween Survival Skills

I enjoy what the staff over at Common Craft is doing to explain new technology in good ‘ole plain English. But this video, below, goes far beyond the call of duty to provide serious Halloween survival information EVERYONE…

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Added by Chad Sowash on October 30, 2007 at 5:19pm — No Comments

Google Guide: Making Searching Even Easier

On the Radar: Tuesday, October 30th, 2007

Following up on last week's blip about GoogleTutor.com another learning tool for sourcers, researchers and bloggers: