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The NEW Fordyce Letter

As everyone must know by now, I love the Fordyce Letter. Not many publications are worth a couple of hundred bucks a year -- but the Fordyce Letter is an exception.

Having said that, today I received my June 2007 Fordyce Letter. The new look and feel are great! The publication is thicker and contains even more great material than it did before. Now there's even MORE great material for me to struggle to finish each month. Thanks, ERE!

Now for the complaint: I hate the… Continue

Added by Harry Joiner on May 29, 2007 at 4:13pm — 2 Comments

I appreciate the warm welcome...

Hi everyone and thank you for the warm welcome.

I am getting married June 16th & working on some very engaging and intense projects right now.

Will start the process to craft my identity here and share some insights for your consideration after the wedding.

Slouch - thanks for your offer and I will take you up on it.

Added by Russ Moon on May 29, 2007 at 11:31am — 3 Comments

The Best Recruiting Lesson I ever Did learn....

Tomorrow is the day that the winner of the 1st RecruitingBlogs.com contest will be chosen. The Recruiting Animal and I will be on the Recruiting Animal Show and will announce the winner at noon EST.

I know making a decision has not been easy for the Recruiting Animal.

Life is hard enough when you live in a cave with no electricity and no

fresh running… Continue

Added by Slouch on May 29, 2007 at 9:02am — No Comments

Quote for the Day: Tuesday, May 29th, 2007

On social networks...

"Social networks suck. There is a new social network launched every other day, and they suck as well...The biggest risk to all social-networking players is the flighty, unpredictable behavior of Internet users...In an attempt to keep visitors hanging around, many social networks are integrating entertainment, such as videos, music clips, blogs, and instant messaging into their sites. But with each new update, social networks become harder to… Continue

Added by Amitai Givertz on May 29, 2007 at 9:00am — No Comments

Quote for the Day: Monday, May 28th, 2007

On blogging etiquette...

"The professional world is increasingly the last outpost of civility in a world where 'upper class' is defined by Paris Hilton instead of Jackie Onassis. 'You are what you blog,' is the order of the day here: if you call Bill Gates a coprophagic pederast, I'll take your word that's honestly representative of your feelings, but I'll also back slowly away from you while looking for the exit."

Colin Kingsbury,… Continue

Added by Amitai Givertz on May 28, 2007 at 9:00am — No Comments

"Low-Man-On-The-Totem-Pole"

original post on my blog, but I wanted to share this here as well!!

My favorite quote this week comes from Brian Tome, one of the senior pastors at my church. He said this morning, "You will get a person's best when you encourage and uplift them; you will not get their best when you criticize and belittle them."

I have been mulling over in my mind for the past couple of days a project I would like to work on in my spare…

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Added by Amybeth Hale on May 27, 2007 at 10:49pm — 1 Comment

The Virtue of Short Posts

Hmmm...Need I say more?

Added by Amitai Givertz on May 27, 2007 at 12:05pm — 5 Comments

Facebook “F8” Sends Ripples Into The Job Search Space

LinkedIn, MySpace, Craigslist, Google Base, and anyone else in the classifieds biz should take note. If you haven’t been using Facebook…

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Added by Robert Neel on May 26, 2007 at 5:30pm — No Comments

And Alexa Says - Top 25 Recruiting Blogs

I was talking to Harry Joiner

yesterday and he was telling me that I should compile a top 25 list of

Recruiting Blogs. I said that is crazy, everyone knows that those Alexa rankings don't mean anything. I told him everytime I speak to John Sumser or… Continue

Added by Slouch on May 26, 2007 at 1:06am — 25 Comments

Happy 2nd Anniversary And 500th Post, MN Headhunter

As posted this afternoon on MN Headhunter:

Two years ago Monday, May 21^st, I started this MN Headhunter blog. This post also hits a milestone of 500 posts.

Before getting into this I did not intentionally make this the 500^th post.…

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Added by Paul DeBettignies on May 25, 2007 at 5:08pm — 1 Comment

Elusive Mid Level Candidates

It seems to me that finding mid level candidates is becoming increasingly more difficult, especially for technology searches. I can still find senior level people... but that elusive 2 - 3 year person with SQL Server 2005 development skills or that extremely customer service oriented help desk analyst are no longer out there and just not reproducing to meet the current demand. I've tried all the local watering holes to no avail... so now I'm going blogging. Any suggestions?

Added by Leslie Mason on May 25, 2007 at 2:22pm — 3 Comments

Best in Class Recruiting = Best in Class Marketing

Before helping found Jobster in 2004, I spent several years in the Global Marketing Organization at Microsoft. My primary responsibility at the time was managing the systems and processes that enabled Microsoft marketing activities.

It…

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Added by Neil on May 24, 2007 at 2:24pm — No Comments

Plaxo

Has anyone heard of Plaxo. I just recieved an inviation to it and I like participation but I have less and less time to do so. There wasn't any information about it at its website. Would anyone care to provide somefeedback. Thanka. Ya'll Rock!!!

Added by Moises Lopez on May 24, 2007 at 2:14pm — 3 Comments

first post here...

I think this is one of many forums to keep connected. I also have to be more diligent on my "functional blog", www.formerscienceguy.com. I have been negligent over there.

I have found this year in the Canadian biotech recruiting world to be more indicative than ever to either grow my own company to include staff up here or form a larger "splits" or coalition of recruiters in the US biotech industry.

Obviously, my PhD in genetics is…

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Added by Kalch on May 24, 2007 at 1:12pm — 1 Comment

I have heard it all now.

I just ran across a blog entry by Ethan Bloomfield titled http://www.ere.net/blogs/Recruiting_ROI/5B1ED5CC22824C5094376A933A0E37B7.asp/ "Are we passively missing the best…

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Added by Moises Lopez on May 24, 2007 at 12:43pm — 4 Comments

Harry " Give Me The Fordyce Letter" Joiner

Harry Joiner is an interesting guy. I talk to him at least once a week and he is a guy who understands how a blog can help his business. He is contacted regularly by people who want his opinion or want his services because they found him via his blog via goole.

He submitted a very interesting lesson he has learned as a recruiter. Here is a little from it:

"For example, imagine that I submit six highly-qualified candidates… Continue

Added by Slouch on May 24, 2007 at 10:04am — 2 Comments

Barbara Bruno Does Some Math

According to Barbara Bruno, 3+3=3

Added by Slouch on May 23, 2007 at 10:26am — 1 Comment

Specialist networking

Be informed that on www.opennetworkers.info there are separate Groups for:

- Consultants

- HR-professionals

- Trainers

- LinkedIn networkers

- Xing networkers

- Second Life networkers

- Myspace networkers

- Manufacturing specialists

- Jobseekers

- Software specialists

- Logistics experts

- Interim Managers

- Top-managers (CEO / CFO /CTO)

- Education specialist

- Government… Continue

Added by Ray van den Bel on May 23, 2007 at 4:10am — No Comments

Welcome to the first edition of the H3.com newsletter. We've learned a lot over the past year. We've worked closely with more than 300 companies who have used H3.com to cultivate their social network…

Welcome to the first edition of the H3.com newsletter. We've learned a lot over the past year. We've worked…

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Added by hans gieskes on May 23, 2007 at 1:02am — No Comments

People on the move

Employers have to take into consideration the requirement for flexible working hours that employees are increasingly demanding. This information is taken from a survey that Microsoft recently implemented among 1000 office workers. The generated results show that 73% of the surveyed regard the opportunity for self-determining their working time as essential…

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Added by Teodora Hristova on May 22, 2007 at 7:02am — No Comments