I found this while doing some reading this morning and I found it very interesting.  I think this is an awesome tool to help people get on the web quickly to advertise their company and their services.  The challenge, which goes back to the many discussions regarding the relationship between corporate recruiters and third party recruiters, is this tool makes it even easier to publicly overload, water down, and dilute the third party recruiting space.  If building recruiting sites is this…

An interesting topic I have been wrangling recently is the convergence of Corporate Social Media and Corporate Social Recruiting. While the two seem to align perfectly with each other, they are proving more and more difficult to sync up. One would think, at least this one person, that social recruiting and social media have the same end goal in mind, but the problem is aligning the social strategy to new talent and aligning the social strategy to new clients is very different. This can lead…

First, let me explain that I spent several years earning my chops as an agency recruiter at some really small shops. This meant I was always fighting an uphill battle against the big boys in the space that had name recognition, a volume over margin focus, and huge databases. I was able to parlay that experience with a Masters Degree in Human Resource Development in order to switch over to the dark side of corporate recruiting and HR. What I have learned in making this switch has been…