Recruiting.com

I have a friend that has worked for the same (stuffy, old school) firm since graduating college over 10 years ago. He worked in the same department for years and at one point managed a few people and that was OK.

In one month, RecruitingBlogs.com has exploded with triple its membership to over 3,000 members and thousands of page views a day in traffic. His friend’s contributed, Jason’s personality had a definite role in the growth, but if you ask those who had a closer look, Jason would agree that in all sincerity, it was the community itself and the viral power that drove the daily traffic. Invited colleagues invited fellow recruiters, Staffing VP’s invited their staffing organizations. Something happened. The site has taken a life of its own.

As a part-time blogger I was intrigued by a recent article in the Business Journal about the death of the corporate blog. It seems that many of the blogs started by high-level executives have grown more dormant than the planning committee for Rudy Guliani’s inaugural ball.

Let’s face it, not everyone is cut out to “lead” others. We have all witnessed people in and promoted to positions in which they are just not a fit. Personally I have been “managed” or should I say victimized by this more then once in previous jobs.

We have all managed something at one point in our lives. Maybe it was an entire company or maybe it was just managing to get out of bed that morning.

Saying you manage people does not necessarily mean you lead them. Click the title to read more of the article.

Saying you manage people does not necessarily mean you lead them.

Fastcompany.com's list of The World's 50 Most Innovative Companies. It is interesting that Nike is the only one listed that was also on the list last year. I am surprised LG wasn’t higher.

Occasionally I come across a candidate that has a hard time accepting that we decided not to hire them.

This fictitious candidate handled rejection differently then most candidates. No matter how many times I read this letter it cracks me up!

It “feels” different to build professional relationships online then in person. People that are uncomfortable in networking situations are able to connect with people with similar interests comfortably and share best practices online.

I have learned to make a conscious effort to call colleagues. I call this my “water-cooler time”

I always tell people that I am very lucky because there is fine line between my work and my hobby. I am not really sure when this happened, it just did....

Open Question to sourcers & recruiters: What happens to our industry once we have “full market” involvement with Social Networks?

As any economist knows 100% employment (meaning 0% unemployment) is neither possible nor good for the market, and they (you know those experts) typically believe that something in the range of 3-5% unemployment (known as full employment) is pretty much a best case scenario for the market. With this in mind I’ve been thinking lately that as we continue to move further into this Social Networking experiment what happens to sourcing and recruiting professionals as more and more of the people who currently are “hard to find” put their private information into the public domain?

Recently, I was diagnosed with R.A.A.D.D.
- 9-10 recruiters suffer from this disorder.

Recruiter Activated Attention Deficit Disorder.
This is how it manifests:....
http://recruitnik.blogspot.com/2007/11/real-real-story-of-day-in-life-of_15.html

Technology. Organizational restructuring. Changing workforce demographics. Globalization. The degree to which external forces such as these are reshaping the North American workplace is breathtaking. And HR leaders, who are particularly attuned to, and entrusted with, their organizations' talent, are especially aware of the impact.

Do you know who your next Chief Executive Officer will be? What about the one after that? There's a good chance you don't. There's also a good chance he or she already works for your company.

Plenty of pictures and updates on a terrific conference event. Great job again to Dave Manaster and Kate Bruener

Something no recruiter should ever forget! We were candidates before we were Recruiters.