RBC - Give and Take (Keeping the conversation on point)

For those that missed today's RBC Daily:

The RBC has always been a great resource for new and experienced recruiters from all over the world. A place where your can share struggles and success from your desk with others that can relate. A place where you can engage in conversation and share tips with other colleagues in your profession. A place to learn about new techniques and ways to go about using technology to source candidates. The RBC is still all those things, but topping that list is the fact that the RBC is a give and take stage.

Lately it appears there has been a bit more taking. While I can only speak for myself (I'm sure the majority of the community will agree), I appreciate all the time and effort from members that do share content on this platform. It is what fuels the activity and ongoing conversation, but to those select few that post outbound links only void of any content, advertisements, non-appropriate material, and flat out spam - enough is enough.

As recruiters we are always looking to find more time throughout the day and visiting the RBC and having to filter through all the noise is a task none of us have extra minutes for. All of us behind the scenes will work hard to keep the conversation on track and keep the RBC the great resource we all know that it is. Thanks for hearing me out.

Tim

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Permalink Reply by Sandra McCartt on July 24, 2012 at 11:57am

Thank you Tim,
My take on all of this is that recruiters are smart or should be, if they manage to stay in the business for very long. We get paid to identify BS on resumes, BS from our candidates and many times from our clients. We know an infomercial when we see it. Much like the definition of porn, we know it when we see it so don't insult our intelligence or labor under the illusion that you as a vendor are going to sell us something by having your marketing intern flop something on a recruiting site with "link bait" to your site. We are not here to help you build your SEO or build the comments on your site.

We respect our own site by not posting every job we are trying to fill with a link to our own site or online ATS. If we went to your site and posted a solicitation for your business on every blog post you posted on your company blog with a link to our company web site, you would soon start deleting the solicitations from recruiters. Why you think as a vendor to the recruiting industry that you can engage us by having a kid ( or a phony avatar with no pic) who doesn't know squat about recruiting post 38 blogs in three months about how to recruit on Facebook , google, or linkedin defies comprehension. You advise your clients to add valid content why not take the advice you are trying to sell?

Do you really think you have any clue as to what best practices are in recruiting when you have never been one? As a recruiter I have not tried yet to tell one of my clients that I know what best practices are in medicine, distribution or cancer research. I am neither that stupid nor arrogant yet?

When I as a recruiter contact a potential client in an industry I don't start by trying to tell a reservoir engineer how to evaluate well logs or a doctor how to do surgery. Think about it. No site moderator should have to dig through what you are trying to pass off as relevant content that generates comments or interaction to determine if you are real or if you are just advertising and promoting. You know what you are doing so grow up, be real and quit, you are simply creating irritating clutter that insults the intelligence of any recruiter who can afford to buy what you are selling. Unfortunately it appears you have pushed it to the point that more moderation has to happen. Congratulations on a massive, childish , narcissistic marketing fail!

End of effective marketing lecture 101. Real world version.