December 2007 Blog Posts (106)

TW3...Week ending December 21th, 2007

Here is this week's round-up from the recruiting industry’s group blogs, portals and individual archives posted on Recruiting.com...

Browse the archives of "That was the week that was..."

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Added by Amitai Givertz on December 23, 2007 at 10:20am — No Comments

Listen To Your People

Many companies like the idea of saying they have an open door to all employee’s ideas. BUT do they really? Read more...

http://recruitnik.blogspot.com/2007/12/listen-to-your-people.html

Added by Recruitnik on December 22, 2007 at 6:12pm — No Comments

Ripping Yarns

Trying to wrap my head around information foraging theory I’m hoping a modern-day forager extraordinaire might help me make some stodgy stuff a little easier to digest…hmmm, maybe not!

The Discovery Channel airs an interesting program called Man vs Wild. The…

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Added by Amitai Givertz on December 22, 2007 at 1:56pm — No Comments

Disaggregating Newspapers Won’t Help Most Dailies

In an interesting post

yesterday, Dave Morgan (Executive V.P. of Global Advertising Strategy

for AOL) suggests that by disaggregating their businesses and opening

up each component part to operate and even compete independently, daily

newspapers can save themselves from complete oblivion. Clearly, there

is some merit to Morgan’s argument, and some papers (mostly in the

weekly newspaper and alternative… Continue

Added by TobyDayton on December 21, 2007 at 4:31pm — No Comments

Funny Recruiting Movie

Click link to watch....

http://www.grapheine.com/bombaytv/index.php?module=see&lang=fr&code=c2ee8e9ff54f1a09de139b4f72d7cc31

Added by Holli Maestas on December 21, 2007 at 2:13pm — No Comments

HireAbility Awards - "Six Degrees from Dave" - Best Recruitment Blog of 2007!

By Dave Mendoza, Master Cybersleuth, Affiliate Partner, JobMachine Inc.

(720) 733-2022

Best Recruitment Blog of 2007

Six Degrees From Dave

My day to day is still that of a Master CyberSleuth, a Strategy &…

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Added by Dave Mendoza on December 21, 2007 at 10:29am — No Comments

SAP Groups

Hi Guys,

If any of you handle SAP roles then you may like to:

- Connect with me on LinkedIn www.linkedin.com/in/sapnetwork

- Join the LinkedIn SAP Network www.erpsystems.ws/sapnetwork

-Join the International SAP Projects Group… Continue

Added by Ehab Elagaty - SAP HR Consultant ►www.linkedin.com/in/sapnetwork ►www.erpsystems.ws on December 21, 2007 at 7:23am — No Comments

Share your desktop and build your reputation

On the Radar: Thursday, December 20th, 2007

CrossLoop was originally designed to enable easy screen sharing for remote technical support. For virtual recruiters especially it is just as powerful a tool. Online juice comes from rated screen sharing sessions:

CrossLoop opens up a whole new world of collaborative possibilities. People of any level of technical expertise can now remotely collaborate with others over the Internet.…

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Added by Amitai Givertz on December 20, 2007 at 6:59pm — No Comments

Application 101

Completing a job application should be pretty simple, but with new technology job applications have become more complex with everything being completed on a computer within a secure site, but with companies whom still use paper applications there are some things you should

leave off your application.

When you apply for a job the application usually asks for your name, address, phone number, social

security number, etc. These items are the recipe for your…

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Added by Samara Bowling on December 20, 2007 at 2:59pm — No Comments

Do What It Do

Hey to all I'm telling to just do what it do. When a time you don't know what to do just DO WHAT IT DO that means do what you think is on your mind to do. I get lost sometimes doing what others want me to do but now i do what it do just to help myself out.

Added by Toya on December 20, 2007 at 10:07am — 1 Comment

What were the 10 biggest stories of the job search world in 2007?

Find out in Chris Russell's 7 minute podcast.

Added by Chris Russell on December 20, 2007 at 9:24am — No Comments

5 Concepts To Really Being A People Oriented Company.

http://recruitnik.blogspot.com/2007/12/5-concepts-to-really-be-people-oriented.html

Added by Recruitnik on December 19, 2007 at 9:10pm — No Comments

Know Exactly Who To Target Before Starting Your Sales Recruiting Project

Too many times sales recruiters and hiring managers have no idea what they’re looking for in a new candidate before they start a new sales recruiting project. They will tell you that they do - they will

even show you a written description of their ideal candidate.

But 9 times out of 10 their description will say something like:

"10 years industry sales experience calling all C level executives. The last 4 years must have been in sales management. managing no less than 10…

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Added by Steve Crothers on December 19, 2007 at 5:35pm — No Comments

MN Headhunter in the Minneapolis StarTribune

Tips For The Unemployed Job Seeker

By Matt Krumrie

Last update: November 19, 2007 - 7:52 AM

Paul DeBettignies, managing partner, Nerd Search, LLC (www.mnheadhunter.com) and an IT search firm recruiter for eight years, says finding a job is a contact sport. The more people you are in contact with the better the odds of a short job search. Making contacts is part…

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Added by Paul DeBettignies on December 19, 2007 at 3:42pm — 1 Comment

E-mail address verification with MailTester.com

On the Radar: Wednesday, December 19th, 2007

Need I say more?

Added by Amitai Givertz on December 19, 2007 at 1:30pm — 3 Comments

Blogs Are Blank Canvases; Web sites are gateways

With so many rules being placed on blogs, I wonder if professional bloggers don't sell themselves short. Maybe the question isn't "why do this or that" but why not. That's what we'll be doing more of 2008. Take a look if your like.

Right here. If you like, you can also connect with me on Linkedin.

Blogs are blank canvases; Web sites are gateways. We're looking for new… Continue

Added by Rich on December 19, 2007 at 1:22pm — 2 Comments

DivX support arrives long overdue from Sony, Microsoft

By Ben Kuchera | Published: December 18, 2007 - 11:35PM CT

The newest firmware update for Sony's PlayStation 3 was released today, and while many gamers may groan at the inclusion of voice filters for online communication, the big news is the support for the Blu-ray 1.1 spec as well as the ability to play back DivX files. For a system that Sony wants to…

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Added by Michael Krug on December 19, 2007 at 11:45am — No Comments

Google encouraging people to build knowledge, reputations and rankings

On the Radar: Tuesday, December 18th, 2008

Googling is touting its alternative to Wikipedia, encouraging participation:

The web contains an enormous amount of information, and Google has helped to make that information more easily accessible by providing pretty good search facilities. But not everything is written nor is everything well organized to…

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Added by Amitai Givertz on December 18, 2007 at 1:30pm — No Comments

A Healthcare Social Networking Site?

The Employment Guide® has taken advantage of the sudden growth of online social networks when Healthcareerweb was newly relaunched. Not only will health care job listings show up on the site as well as the employmentguide.com,

but health care professionals and employers will be able to join the

social network, create a profile, and meet other health care workers

and businesses. The… Continue

Added by Samara Bowling on December 18, 2007 at 11:35am — No Comments

Vote For Your Favorite Recruiting Blog

So far the vote for the Best Recruiting Blog of 2007 is well under way. There are around 220 people who have come cast their vote and I am real happy to say that I have received very little vote solicitation email compared to last year.

There are 10 categories and the overall best Blog wins a trip to Las Vegas thanks to Zoominfo

Quite a few blogs have chosen to promote the awards by… Continue

Added by Slouch on December 17, 2007 at 5:07pm — No Comments