Felix Wetzel's Blog – April 2010 Archive (4)

Gen Y – Tear down your walls

Every so often, we have a generational shift – Baby Boomers, Generation X, Gen Y. Every time this happens, all the changes in behaviour, in interests, in work ethics, in motivational drivers are being dissected and highlighted, new modi operandi imagined, claims made – out with the old, in with the new.

Within recruitment, Gen Y is currently a really big, serious and hot topic, discussed in…

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Added by Felix Wetzel on April 19, 2010 at 5:46am — 1 Comment

Where’s my Jerry Maguire?

In the world of sports it’s normal practise that a player has an agent representing him/her at contract negotiations, an agent, who – in combination with the player – works on his/her career path and organises his/her life, so that the player can concentrate on world class performances.…

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Added by Felix Wetzel on April 14, 2010 at 9:15am — No Comments

On hold: Making mobile mistakes

Let’s not repeat the same mistakes with mobile that we did with social

media. Being a participant of Bill Boorman's radio show about mobile recruitment made me reflect a little more on mobile in context of the recruitment industry. My biggest worry is that we’ll be repeating the same mistakes that we did and do with social media:…

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Added by Felix Wetzel on April 6, 2010 at 7:10am — No Comments

Social is dead. Long live the value web.

Now that the debate has moved on, from iphone apps towards a wider embrace of mobile platforms & of mobile

as another, although important engagement channel, let’s look ahead for a moment to a

future that at first glance might seem contradictory but is ultimately

stable and sound. A future in which, to borrow a phrase of Natasha Saxberg, the… Continue

Added by Felix Wetzel on April 1, 2010 at 6:06am — No Comments