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More on the transitions (Read the Article)

Monday

• Visit JohnSumser.com I am moving soon.
  
• Six Degrees of Neal Bruce. Monster's loss is the industry's gain.
• LinkedIn snags Yahoo's Top UI Designer. What will be left for Microsoft?
• Register for the Cleveland Recruiting Roadshow. It's April 29th
• Women: They're just like men, only cheaper (Thanks, Maureen)

Sumser unpacks the plan. He's going to become a Recruiting Animal groupie. This is installment one of the status report.

Friday

• Study: 'Influencers' Possess Less Clout  The old media model of anchorperson falls to friends and family.
• John Sumser and the Recruiting Animal: The Inaugural Recruitingblogs Radio Show 12:30 EST Today
• Monster getting desperate? Scroll down a bit it's a craigslist blog and has to be unconventional
• Twitter in Plain English "What are you doing?" makes a platform
• Finally: Craigslist Launches a Blog of Their Own Can they make the transition?

April Tres

• The Threat of “Free” Craigslist quiets the hecklers with $81M Revenue
• Strategy of Giving Watch Ami, no one is broader.
• Recareering Baby Boomers Add another awful buzzword to the HR jargon
• Do Employers Really Hire Candidates from Facebook and MySpace? Of course they do.
• RecruiterLife Worth checking out.

April Deuce

• How To Disagree Guidelines for constructive conflict in online community (and otherwise)
• Claudia’s Wednesday Wisdom A Star is Born on Recruitingblogs.com
• Susan Burns at ERE (video) Susan launches the ERE Twitterfest
• I demand HR justice for US veterans! Stroud quotes the Post. Vets are getting a really raw deal.
• Polling Twitter: 4 Startups that Take the Pulse of the Twittersphere Twitter is a platform

April Fools Day

• Tutorial Tuesday at RecruitingBlogs.com
• Stepstone's Total Talent Report - Something doesn't ring true here! This is where blogs shine; small player calls out big player.
• April Fool! The Purpose of Pranks The Edge explains why being made a fool is good for you.
• Gen Y’s Entitlement Employment  Each and every talented Gen Yer out there knows that they can leave a job at any time and get another one. It is not Gen Y that needs to change.  It is the rest of us.
• Heather Hates Twitter Follow more people than follow you.

ERE Starts Today

• Weddle's Source of Employment Survey...Doug Geinzer reports that job boards are gaining ground
• Mendoza’s Monday Member Showcase....It's Susan Burns day in Mendozaville
• Washington Post Gets Lost Oddly titled gem noting that the Post is not going down the drain with everyone else
• Trying to cure blogorrhea Moving the conversation forward is what the blogosphere does best
• Why would Google Web Services cost $0? Partly because pretrained programmers are easier to recruit.

Froidee

• A VERY intense video recruiting advertisement Stroud points and asks "Recruiting or Training?"
• Top 10 Countries by Number of Recruitment Companies UK Louise tells all
• Hillary Clinton, Through a Lens Wrongly It's also about every woman who has ever been underestimated, failed to get credit for work she did or been denied opportunities to do work at which she would have excelled. (Thanks, Maureen)
• Loopt Embraced by Verizon; Starts to Spread Its Mobile Wings Location based social network tells you where your friends are
• Building a recruitment strategy in a social world Susan Burns lays it out

Obama's speech is a good point of departure. Things are different now.

Toizday

• The Video Game Generation  You see, the real problem is video games. (Just like farmers used to say, "the real problems is those damn books."
• Online Business Networking: 2 Horse Globalization Race If it's a horse race, people will read it. If it's something else, it will require thinking. (hat tip...AmyBeth)
• I Can't Get No Hiring Satisfaction ATT's hiring problems suggest new product: RecruitingVibes
• Google February Paid Clicks Lousy (Again)* Market saturation or holy grail?
• My name is Dave and I'm a racist  Diversity starts here

The Cleveland Roadshow is April 29th. The article gives the details.

Wed

• Talent Branding on Facebook Jason Corsello spots McD's using the Facebook for Recruiting.
• HR as Sales Dubs notices that HR isn't very proactive.
• ZoomInfo - Friend or Foe? Madam Sharib chronicles the community discussions of various name finding services.
• Corporations In Virtual Worlds Specht articulates the scale limits of Second Life
• Craigslist is our Mirror Arrington on Craigslist style looting.
• Corporate employee blogs: Lawsuits waiting to happen?  Cisco case shows potential for full employment of lawyers.

Conclusion of the 9 part series about the current inflection point.

Twosday

While attention gets focused on the "top" national job boards, the real action is in the niches.

Moondy

• How To Manage Your Career Animal synthesizes Heather. The result is a guide to the construction of a per job employment brand (or a career development strategy)
• Career Lessons from Eliott Spitzer’s Call Girl, Ashley Dupre Penelope gives good headline.
• Security and Social Networking ERE quantifies; Elaine Rigoli nutshells the adoption curve
• Hiring 2.0 is catching on Transparency requires that Recruiters exercise judgment
• Giving candidates feedback is important They need it, it builds your brand, it's far too easy to procrastinate.

Continuing the sector by sector review of the inflection point.

Fry

• India Should Not Worry About US Recession says Jim Stroud. Be proactive.
• Do resumes matter? Gillian responds to Seth Godin (who says they don't matter)
• EntreCard Has An Odd Impact To Alexa Richard Becker goes deep to expose the flaws
• Fistful of Talent New Blog with some familiar faces
• Why a recession won’t affect the job market

As the price of video, stills and storage continues to fall, usage goes up. Broad scale usage of video resumes is unstoppable. It's generational.

Thirsty

• How Debt Bites Back The problem simplified (Thanks, Animal)
• The Hype Around Facebook and HR Dubs thinks real value will take a long time
• Arthur C. Clarke 1917-2008  Martin Snyder points to pieces celebrating Clarke's life, an inspiration to a generation of Geeks
• The Experts vs. the Amateurs: A Tug of War over the Future of Media What would be helpful for navigating content  is a rating system based on consumer rankings that would verify accuracy and prevent user-generated sites from being manipulated.
• Please, no more social networks Consumer fatigue limits growth.

Ornje

• The web, the politician and the prostitute Another look at the privacy/social networks issue.
• History of Recruiting: Part II How the ancients solved the problem
• More Bloggers Raising Money. Here Come The Politics. And Here Comes My Rant. Which prompted this.
• How Apple Got Everything Right By Doing Everything Wrong Say bah to best practices
• Funny Recruiting Video

All cultures have subcultures. Many subcultures have their own subcultures. Subcultures can be nearly unrecognizable parts of the overall culture. If you do something at the top level, it needs to be adjusted as your targeting gets more precise.

One of the reasons that Nationally based marketing has low response rates is that the buying issues and decisions vary widely by region. In the B2B universe, it's critical to understand the local nuances. Localization is everything.

Local IS different.

Greenish

• New Leadership for the Multigenerational Workforce Matt calls it the best Millennial Whitepaper ever. (thanks, Matt)
• Three Ways to Measure Your Performance  Chances are you crave feedback so you can get even better at something you already enjoy doing. Ensuring you have a consistent approach to measuring your success as a recruiter makes it easier for your boss to recognize when you're being successful, and helps your organization understand how you've chosen to approach talent acquisition philosophically.
• Introducing the Bill Kutik Radio Show
• Recruitingblogs.com Swells to 3,000 Members
• Productivity, How-to and Advice Sites: Making Linkbait Useful Again

Green

• ATS: Best of breed versus Oracle and SAP One vendor can not supply it all.
• The Times They Are A-Changing Well, maybe not
• List Metrics; how to measure quality in a list? Donato loves Maureen
• Yahoo Buzz is a Game Changer for Social Media; And Spells Trouble for Digg!
• Google Makes DoubleClick Employees Apply To Keep Their Jobs How Not To Do It