That was the week that was…
- Author: Amitai Givertz
- Posted: September 2, 2007
- Category: Recruiting, Blogging
- Tags: No Tags
- Comments: 1
Week ending August 31, 2007
A round-up from the recruiting industry’s group blogs, portals and individual archives:
John Sumser’s “Take Five” on Recruiting.com:
Monday: Five Jobs Shift Happens: A Changing Workforce in a Changing World
Tuesday: Five with Extra Cheese Background Checks and Social Networks
Wednesday: Five Slices CareerBuilder Adds Facebook App
Thursday: Five Environmentals Employees Are Not Assets
Friday: Five Dongles The HR Blog Power Rankings
“News to Peruse” on The Recruiting Network
Monday: Staffing industry sets employment records
Tuesday: Workplace unfairness costs U.S. employers an estimated $64 billion annually in employee turnover
Wednesday: One mortgage lender, at least, is hiring
Thursday: Staffing industry analysts revises growth forecast downward as economy slows
Friday: Recruiting on campus: Top recruiters in B-Schools survey
“Quote for the Day” on RecruitingBlogs.com
Monday: On social networks and the “reverse domino effect”…
Tuesday: On the ethics and semantics of Search…
Wednesday: On hard lessons about changing education…
Thursday: On HR falling of its seat at the table…
Friday: On new metrics for talent management…
That was the week that was…
- Author: Amitai Givertz
- Posted: August 26, 2007
- Category: Recruiting, Blogging
- Tags: Archives, Blogs
- Comments: 0
Week ending August 24, 2007
A round-up from the recruiting industry’s group blogs, portals and individual archives:
John Sumser’s “Take Five” on Recruiting.com:
Monday: Five NewMeedeeo BarcampBlock Shows the True Promise of Web 2.0
Tuesday: Five Things That Don’t Make You Go Hmmmm Facebook debunked
Wednesday: Five Wednesday Wonders Enabling versus Empowering
Thursday: Five European Views Cyber Crooks Crack Monster Codes
Friday: Five Golden Rings Why High Touch Beats High Tech
“News to Peruse” on The Recruiting Network
Monday: Newsrooms axe jobs as newsprint recedes
Tuesday: Blood-letting continues in the financial services industry
Wednesday: Nearly 5 Million go to Job.com in July
Thursday: Independent Recruiters Getting Tooled-up
Friday: Technorati is tracking over 100 million blogs
“Quote for the Day” on RecruitingBlogs.com
Monday: On compensation double standards…
Tuesday: On Murphy’s Law and other systematic complications…
Wednesday: On [not] having a shared vision…
Thursday: On transforming HR…
Friday: On the irony of finding sales talent…
That was the week that was…
- Author: Amitai Givertz
- Posted: August 19, 2007
- Category: Blogging
- Tags: Archives, Blogs
- Comments: 0
Week ending August 17, 2007
A round-up from the recruiting industry’s group blogs, portals and individual archives:
John Sumser’s “Take Five” on Recruiting.com:
Monday: Five Looks Online Recruiting - What are your tricks of the trade?
Tuesday: Five Shortage Views The Great Labor Shortage Lie
Wednesday: Five Arbys Phone Tip: Don’t Make Gatekeepers Think
Thursday: Four Byes Why We’re All Blogging Less
Friday: Five TimesTheyAreAChangin Thoughts on the Social Graph
“News to Peruse” on The Recruiting Network
Monday: Adecco acquires US recruitment outsourcing company, TalentTrack
Tuesday: American Home Mortgage Cuts Staffing
Wednesday: Corporate Social Responsibility, Non-Issue for Jobseekers
Thursday: Miscommunication Between Seekers and Hiring Managers Revealed
Friday: Online Recruitment Activity Edged Down in July
“Quote for the Day” on RecruitingBlogs.com
Monday: On money can’t buy you love…
Tuesday: On recruiter blogging, center stage…
Wednesday: On the language of “transparency”…
Thursday: On keeping confrontational jerks around, or not as the case may be…
Friday: On the irony of finding sales talent…
That was the week that was…
- Author: Amitai Givertz
- Posted: July 21, 2007
- Category: Recruiting, Blogging
- Tags: Archives, Blogs
- Comments: 0
Week ending July 20, 2007
A round-up from the recruiting industry’s group blogs, portals and individual archives:
John Sumser’s “Take Five” on Recruiting.com:
Monday: Five Gems Of varying carats
Tuesday: Five Easy Pieces The Next Big Thing: Why Web 2.0 Isn’t Enough
Wednesday: Today’s Five The Age of Self-Promotion
Thursday: Five Goodies On the Web, Everyone Knows Your Reputation
Friday: Hi Ho Roadshow Jobs of the future, #1: Online Community Organizer
“News to Peruse” on The Recruiting Network
Monday: Recruiting Filipino Teachers
Tuesday: Benchmarks for Hiring and Staffing Efficiency
Wednesday: CareerMetaSearch.com ups the ante
Thursday: Top Employers: Women in Power, Women in PINK
Friday: Shortage of Talent A Critical Condition For Pharma, Biotech
“Recruiting by Numbers” on Bells & Whistles
Monday: Ten Tips for Recruiting High Flyers
Tuesday: 15 Steps on How to Welcome Your New Employee
Wednesday: Ten Simple Tips to Make a Great Recruiting Website
Thursday: The Top 10 Hiring Mistakes
Friday: The 4 Deadliest Onboarding Mistakes
The Decline of Shipwrecks and Email Distractions
- Author: Amitai Givertz
- Posted: June 11, 2007
- Category: Business Matters, Blogging
- Tags: No Tags
- Comments: 0
With a close enough reading, anyone who has followed my 12-month career as a blogger will know where I am coming from as a marketer and where RCI now hopes to go with what’s been learned, starting here on Bells & Whistles and continuing to develop on our website.
Along the way I have had the support and trust of a faithful sponsor, CEO Mike Moore. Mike has given me a lot of latitude to explore this thing and research all the possibilities for achieving a broad range of marketing and other objectives. Really, Mike has entrusted me to leave the dock with a few boats and some gutsy buccaneers to head off in an anticlockwise direction. I know he expects me to bring some bounty back, as do I.
I have also been lucky to have had guidance from some other exceptional talents who are likewise seminal figures in our industry. One of those people is John Sumser.
In recent weeks and in his posts that talk about content, identity, authenticity, transparency, marketing-spin, markets-as-conversations and what-have-you John paints a seascape where he has long stood as a beacon of sorts.
For those who read his daily column John’s opinionated posts fill in the details of a thing bit-by-bit like a painting-by-numbers. For those who have read John for years his body of work in retrospect resembles broad brush strokes that cover the whole canvas, not the painstaking post-by-post dabs of color — red for technology, yellow for recruiting, blue for business — but a full spectrum that covers everything from branding to job boards and acquisitions to busts. Hue, tint, color. Energized, it’s the stuff that light is made from. Focused it is projected like a lighthouse beam.
Whether for hapless seafarers in recruiting or the seasoned scrimshaw scratchers of HR, John’s posts can help one find shelter from the swells and storms of an industry itself constantly weathering enormous and rapid change. For those who do not understand how lighthouses work — when the real tempests blow — captains and crew get smashed on the rocks and curse John Sumser’s name. I know. I’ve been in a wreck or two and cursed him rather loudly myself.
Broken Promises
- Author: Amitai Givertz
- Posted: May 11, 2007
- Category: That's Life, Blogging
- Tags: No Tags
- Comments: 3
Well, it is rather late and I really should be tucking the children into bed and making cocoa for my long-suffering missus. But I have the notion that I can dash off a quick post, by way of an update on my Recruiting.com-in-transition thingie. I did promise I would be home before whatever-o’clock and I still have a minute or two, don’t I?
9:48pm: Recruiting.com
Parts three, four, five, six, seven and eight and nine and ten of my hypothesis on the future of Recruiting.com will not be published after all. Although it has subsided now, I’m afraid two or three weeks ago when I started the communal histrionics surrounding the outgoing Jason Davis and incoming John Sumser combined with my running out of emotional pocket-change left me uninspired, counting pennies.
I will say, having spoken at length to the now-gone and now-here bloggers-laureate I am convinced that my theories about Jason Goldberg’s strategic positioning of Recruiting.com as some kind of money-making proposition to rival David Manaster’s ERE (formerly Electronic Recruiters’ Exchange) may have exaggerated:
a) Jason Goldberg’s commercial interest in the so-called “Recruiting Community Portal” and in providing value-added content (read: profitable) to the market;
b) His tolerance for an unwise crowd of yahoos – or a vocal minority depending on the generosity of your point of view — enfranchising one minute and disenfranchised the next; and
c) Any interest in making good on his “endowment” to what must seem to him now to be a bunch of ungrateful link-gluttons, myself included.
I also think in comparing the two I might have unwittingly understated David Manaster’s ability to quietly get on with his affairs without drawing the ire of a whole genre. Certainly there is more to contrast Jason Goldberg and David Manaster. I wonder how the two men really view each other as movers-and-shakers, authentic and transparent. Much in the same way as a mirror reflects the reverse image to the observer I suspect a close scrutiny in the looking glass would leave David Manaster the only one of the pair able to distinguish the realities of online publishing and community from delusions of grandeur.
So there you have it, broken promise, number one. Or, is it two?
Jason Davis: The Recruitosphere’s Darling
- Author: Amitai Givertz
- Posted: April 16, 2007
- Category: Business Matters, Blogging
- Tags: No Tags
- Comments: 15
Part Two in a Series About Today’s Recruiting.com
The recent announcement by Jobster that John Sumser will be replacing Recruiting.com’s founding member Jason Davis in an effort to add value to its year-old acquisition – whatever that means — has left many people speculating, “What is going on?”
For a man who boasts that he eats dog food – yuck! – perhaps Jason Goldberg’s pick of John Sumser is a good one for this blog-eat-blog world we live in. Others might suggest that John Sumser is about to consume his own taboo-tasty with Recruiting.com – double yuck! – ruminating on Jobster’s original “modest proposal,” one bite at a time. Yummy!
In an effort to better understand what this dog’s dinner is all about we are starting with a cameo of the players. Profiling Jason Davis then, here is Part Two:
I don’t how much of what I have been told about Recruiting.com’s history is fact and how much of it is fiction. It hardly matters. Jason Davis is now a legend in his time.
John Sumser: A Sheep in Wolf’s Clothing?
- Author: Amitai Givertz
- Posted: April 12, 2007
- Category: Business Matters, Blogging
- Tags: No Tags
- Comments: 13
Part One in a Series About Today’s Recruiting.com
Since the announcement that industry ol’-timer John Sumser will be replacing the beloved Jason Davis to assume a management role in the affairs of Recruiting.com I have been organizing my thoughts so that I could communicate in some coherent way the assortment of important things that this one event represents.
Like the symbols of Easter - lambs, eggs and lilies, bread, wine and what-have-you — alone they mean one thing but together they convey a greater meaning, significance and potential for those who “believe.”
So, under the banner of this short series of posts we can discuss each one of these things drawing them together to make sense of what combined represent the symbols of Recruiting.com: content, community, transparency, social media, corporate social responsibility, thought-leadership, online persona and personal branding. You digg?
For the atheists and agnostics among us – those less concerned with the higher purpose of publishing in our space as a force for change – these things along with a good dollop of ego-mania, profiteering and power-play make for interesting gossip I think. So whether you hear a prayer in the whisper or something else, come a little closer and I’ll speak softly in your ear.
Defining Talent Management
- Author: Amitai Givertz
- Posted: April 5, 2007
- Category: Tools and Resources, Talent Management, Blogging
- Tags: Blogs, Industry, Talent Management Consulting
- Comments: 4
Modestly billing itself as a “daily news and commentary site about HR strategy and technology” systematicHR is in actual fact exceptional for its consistent quality and clarity of mind. It continues to be one my favorite blogs to read, re-read and read again. Hardly typical then, today’s post Defining Talent Management is typical:
Talent management is a true buzz word around HR these days, has been for a few years now. We all know the components of talent management: performance, compensation process, succession, recruitment, learning, competencies. All of these are major components to an overall talent strategy. Inclusive in this list should also be technology. But what really, is talent management?
Read the whole post here, subscribe to this blog’s feed and elevate your thinking about talent management and HR strategy.
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Where’s the Mustard?
- Author: Amitai Givertz
- Posted: April 3, 2007
- Category: That's Life, Blogging
- Tags: Whatever
- Comments: 2
Posted on the inscrutable The ItzBig Blog I thought Kinder, gentler generals needed in the war for talent sounded like it might resonate with some of the sentimental comments on GE’s Bill Conaty: Secrets of an HR Superstar. Preceded with an Editor’s note that said…
This post was originally published on March 19th. Since this post attracted such great traffic and reader response, we thought it worthwhile to publish this one again.
…I thought, this must be worth checking out. On reading the post I was impressed by two things:
First, it is worth the time it takes to read although it hardly talks to the GE Bill Conaty comments other than a shared fuzziness perhaps. Not the point though, it’s worth reading.
Second, if the post’s first publication attracted such “great traffic and reader response” the first time round what happened to all of the comments? At the time of this writing I didn’t see any.
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