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On the truth and shades of grey...

Quote for the Day: Monday, July 23rd, 2007

"Offering people an A/not-A choice is often useful as a way to find out what they're really thinking. The world is rarely pure black or pure

white but it's also rarely a perfect 18% grey. People often use

shades-of-grey arguments as a way to deflect facts which might refute

their thesis. The humorist Steven Potter wrote that if you were ever

pressed to offer an opinion on events in a foreign country,… Continue

Added by Amitai Givertz on July 23, 2007 at 7:00am — No Comments

About Online Community Building

If you are interested in online communities you should have a look at this on JobMatchbox.

Added by Slouch on July 22, 2007 at 10:53pm — No Comments

Search engine wish list

Assuming NO limitations on the technology what would recruiters vote for as their top features to add to search engines?

Some of mine:

1. Access to all results. When I do a search and see 3500 results, and can only get to a maximum of 1000...ahhhhh

2. Some control over the business logic in the ranking algorythm. - to much popularity means too much mob mentality.

3. The ability to perform 2 searches and create a concordance of results in a 3rd search - Example get…

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Added by Donato Diorio on July 21, 2007 at 1:47am — 1 Comment

Jeremy Langhans Asks

What is More Important?

Added by Slouch on July 20, 2007 at 2:39pm — No Comments

Onsite Only????

There have been several issues in recruiting that have been hot topics

of discussion lately. I would like to touch on Virtual

Recruiting/Remote Recruiting.

I cannot believe the amount of attention this topic has attracted. I can't believe the tremendous

disdain for remote work by seemingly leading corporations "trying" to

compete (so they say) in a global, growing economy. When the internet

began to get really hot, it opened a lot of doors and leveled… Continue

Added by Adrienne Graham on July 20, 2007 at 9:26am — No Comments

On who owns Succession Planning, who wants it?

Quote for the Day: Friday, July 20th, 2007

"While sensible, structured succession planning is something that HR would want to push for and would obviously have a crucial role in delivering, it is not up to HR to drive the process - that responsibility rests with the board. And if there is an HR director on the board, then I would hope that succession planning was already part of the mix.

Sadly, just like other people, HR directors are often vain,… Continue

Added by Amitai Givertz on July 20, 2007 at 6:30am — No Comments

Lookin 4 people.

Leaders with guts who can recognize a great opportunity.

Relocating from Amsterdam, Netherlands to West Palm Beach, Florida. Looking for a career in recruiting.
Background:Military Police (Tasks:Immigration/Monitoring MP sergeants/sailing the world for 6 years).
Hit me up if your interested in a resumé.

Added by Egosatfa on July 20, 2007 at 4:48am — No Comments

Minneapolis Recruiting Unconference And Recruiting Roadshow Thoughts

As posted on my MN Headhunter blog...

I have received a few email the past two weeks wondering where I have been and why I had not been writing.

Between the day job of recruiting and the other day job of “Cruise Director” for the unconference I have been very, very busy. Mix in with that a volunteer stint at the University of Minnesota to help with the hiring of a graduate assistant I have been a little overwhelmed.

But it has…

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Added by Paul DeBettignies on July 20, 2007 at 2:03am — No Comments

Minneapolis Recruiting Unconference Invitation

As posted this evening on my MN Headhunter blog...

I have been so involved in the planning process I failed to keep people up to date here. Response to the invitation below has been phenomenal. We have space for 100 attendees and have been on a…

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Added by Paul DeBettignies on July 19, 2007 at 8:42pm — No Comments

We have a winner to SourceCon Challenge #2

Congratulations to Suzy Tonini for successfully solving the 2nd Sourcing Challenge. We now have two Sourcing Guru's (Michael Notaro Challenge #1 winner) facing off for the title and bragging rights as the Grand Master Sourcing Champion at SourceCon2007 in Atlanta this September.…

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Added by SourceCon Dude on July 19, 2007 at 5:22pm — 9 Comments

Any ideas how to cut a 60 hour workweek (Internet business) down to 30?

I just read Tim Ferriss' book "The 4-Hour Workweek - Experiments in Lifestyle Design"

It talks about the 80/20 rule (80% of your results come from 20% of your efforts&actions), taking mini-retirement vacations, how to NOT defer your LIFE 'till your old --how to

live the millionaire lifestyle now, even on average wages.

I'm trying to find ways of using automated business and marketing…

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Added by Linkedin-Entrepreneurs.com Victory Darwin on July 19, 2007 at 1:34pm — No Comments

Building a labor rocket ship!

Building a national labor exchange might not be “Rocket Science“, although it’s far from an easy task and does not happen overnight.

Last week I was lucky enough to spend some quality time with the Connecticut Department of Labor staff, as a consultant, helping with the…

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Added by Chad Sowash on July 19, 2007 at 9:55am — No Comments

How does your Blog Communicate?

(Insert Don LaFontaine voice here)…

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Added by Greg Le Noue on July 19, 2007 at 8:46am — No Comments

On HR horror stories....

Quote for the Day: Thursday, July 19th, 2007

"Like the story about the employee who, HR discovered on his demise, had forgotten to change the beneficiary of his pension and life insurance when he remarried; HR had to tell the second wife that the first wife was getting the bucks. Or the man who threatened to sue his wife's employer for "enabling" her affair with a co-worker. Or the fast-food worker who sought to sue her employer for demanding that she tame her… Continue

Added by Amitai Givertz on July 19, 2007 at 6:30am — No Comments

Can You Help The Marketing Headhunter?

My friend Harry Joiner needs some help with this

Added by Slouch on July 18, 2007 at 8:40pm — No Comments

On the EOE/EEO/AA/M/F/D Alphabet Soup...

Quote for the Day: Wednesday, July 18th, 2007

"Equal opportunity statements seem awkward at best and unnecessary at worst, especially in radio commercials. After all, equal opportunity is the law, so stating it in your ad is a bit odd. A company is either open to diversity or not; it either supports equality or it doesn’t. Putting the EOE statement in an ad or commercial doesn’t change anything.

Imagine spotting a delivery van with a bumper sticker that… Continue

Added by Amitai Givertz on July 18, 2007 at 6:42pm — No Comments

Some RecruitingBlogs.com Stats

There are now 350 members of RecruitingBlogs.com. There have been over 99,000 page views but less than 100,000 page views but it's close.

ideas and feedback.

Added by Slouch on July 18, 2007 at 5:27pm — 2 Comments

Jupitermedia Buys Media Jobs Site

Jupitermedia Corporation has purchased Mediabistro.com, a site that

originated from the founder organizing cocktail parties and networking

events for media professionals and eventually grew to include

vertical-specific job listings and content. Jupitermedia is paying $23

million for the site which had 600,000 unique visitors last year and

generated revenue from employer listings and premium content

subscription services. Jupitermedia also owns internet.com… Continue

Added by TobyDayton on July 18, 2007 at 4:09pm — No Comments

SourceCon Challenge#2 - So you’re Stumped !! Great Sourcers that you are !!!

48 hours into Challenge #2 and the feedback is that it is just too hard. The feedback we received from Challenge#1 was “too easy”. This is not the story of the “Goldielocks and the 3 Sourcing Gurus” and you are hoping to find Challenge#3 too be 'just right'.

We have been intentionally elevating the complexity level of each challenge to ensure that we get only THE BEST OF THE BEST for the final showdown in Atlanta. I can give you a few hints to…

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Added by SourceCon Dude on July 18, 2007 at 7:03am — 8 Comments

On Google being a Web 2.0 parasite...

Quote for the Day: Tuesday, July 17th, 2007

"Take Google, for example, the economic paragon of a truly successful Web 2.0 media company. With a market cap of approximately $150 billion, the Silicon Valley company took in $6.139 billion in revenue and $1.465 billion in profits in 2005. Telling is the fact that unlike companies such as Time Warner or Disney that create and produce movies, music, magazines, and television, Google is a parasite; it creates no content… Continue

Added by Amitai Givertz on July 17, 2007 at 2:55pm — No Comments