December 2009
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2010 and recruitment - the year of lost...
As the recruitment market picks up in 2010 and companies start hiring again, we’re going to see recruiters getting busy. They will do exactly what they were doing prior to global financial crisis. Nothing much will change.
In parallel, we will see a tremendous amount of innovation in the social, mobile, real-time, and collaborative technology space. We will see more and more of the potential...
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Watch
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Which Occupation is bad for Your Marriage?
Reblog:
helitoivonen:
I read an interesting article about the correlation between occupations and divorce rates. Dr Michael Aamodt carried out a study on the likelihood of success of a marriage based on the occupation of one of the partners. According to the results, those who have extrovert and stressful jobs and those in caring professions are more likely to divorce than other professionals....
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Teens, job hunting, work, and social sites →
Interesting survey results. Implications for employers - recruitment and retention-wise, especially for those who block Facebook etc at work.
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Community DJ
I’m not a big fan of the term Community Manager. Manager implies command and control to me. From my experience of building online communities (eg Recruitment Asia Pacific), this Manager nomenclature just doesn’t seem to fit. Joining a community is typically voluntary and community members don’t want some person pushing them to participate. The cold hard fact is that most people...
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Your own R.I.P memorial page
This is rather macabre. The Los Angeles Times published a story about a website which launched last month called Seppukoo.com. The site is set up for people who want to end it all with honor on Facebook and liberate their digital body, by committing Seppukoo (the ancient art of Japanese ritual suicide). The dearly departed’s memorial page gets sent to all their Facebook friends and the...
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My Future In Recruiting will not happen now
Unfortunately my entry in the RecruitingBlogs.com My Future in Recruiting competition was not selected as the winner. Swallow sadness! So obviously my future in recruiting dream, involving mojitos, will never be fully realized. The award instead went to this entry. The winner from Texas will be taking a Sunday drive to Mexico ;)
Anyway, here is my entry below for archival recording purposes.
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John Sumser talks social recruiting →
John’s podcast is a must listen in my view. As we’re closing in on 2010, John provides what I think is a timely overview of the current landscape and the disconnect between the early adopters and the majority. Even his definition of social recruiting is thought provoking. I come away with two thoughts: 1) Maybe employers need to think of jobseekers more like their ‘fan...
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Social recruiting in action
My client, Deloitte New Zealand is breaking new ground, with a plan to join the likes of Shakira, Miley Cyrus and KISS in mashing live-streaming video with social networking. Fans of the Your Future at Deloitte (New Zealand) Facebook page will be able to watch and listen on Facebook to graduate recruits in the Consulting team, as they talk about their experiences and impressions. Better still,...
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Does this happen at your workplace?
Picture this. You start work with an employer and convene with other new recruits in the company cafeteria for lunch. You sit down and then, you hear this…
OneRepublic is performing just for you. This was the treat for Nooglers (New Googlers) at the Googleplex in the Silicon Valley recently.
November 2009
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Holographic recruitment
I look forward to attending the holographic recruiting summit in 2012.
Check out this video:
Cisco On-Stage Holographic TelePresence Experience from Musion Systems on Vimeo.
It’s like Second Life, but not. Now apply this to a recruitment context. Candidate beams in to meet with recruiter, candidate beams in to meet with hiring manager. And not a sweaty palm in sight.
For those who...