• “The important thing to keep in mind is the overall quality of the pipeline. Proactively adding both passive and actives into it at the same time is going to give you a healthy mix in the end,” says Maureen Sharib
• Stop Wasting My Time With Your Great References!!! In highly specialized fields, one can argue there are only 2 or 3 degrees of separation (MAX) from the candidate to whom we are about to make an offer! 
• Aggregation Wins - Not So Fast  A good reminder that the world isn’t full of early adopters.
• Attack at the top of the hill. “Go on the offense in the war for talent when your competition is hurt.”
• Myth: Personal Branding Is All About YOU…Nope.

The greatest paradox of the Internet era is the way that global communications tighten regional dynamics. Simultaneously, the world is flatter  and more intensely local. Somehow, greater access to planetary insight makes the neighborhood really important.

You’d think that globalized communications would homogenize culture. Alongside McDonalds, Starbucks, Wal-Mart, Holiday Inn and the other giants of broadcast economy, the internet appears to regiment. Reduced friction implies limited choice, doesn’t it?

Concerns over cultural standardization are at the heart of anti-corporate sentiment in Europe and South America. Generic storefronts and choice limitations appear to be a dynamic that should spread beyond the enterprises built on them. From one perspective, American culture looks like these missionary outposts.

At the same time, regional differences between American cities are as significant as the things that make countries different elsewhere. Industry, history, geography, growth, living standard, ethnic mix, religion, manners and educational infrastructure make a distinct stew in each of the locales. Local culture appears to trump standardized infrastructure.

Today, it’s Ohio. The Cleveland Recruiting Roadshow is tomorrow morning. Cleveland is as different from Boston, Atlanta, San Francisco or Seattle as those cities are from each other.

Tomorrow….Core Characteristics of the city.

• Jason Davis Announces RecruitingBlogs.com Lounge, Kennedy Expo Las Vegas
• Shally’s Interview on XtremeRecruiting TV The master speaks
• Eye Popping Predictions
• Filtering Google Searches By Freshness  Arrington channels Shally
• Schwaggin’ Wagon cruises for conference party favors Do we need one of these?

In Unix and other computer multitasking operating systems, a daemon (pronounced /ˈdiːmən/ or /ˈdeɪmən/) is a computer program that runs in the background, rather than under the direct control of a user; they are usually initiated as processes. Typically daemons have names that end with the letter “d”: for example, syslogd, the daemon that handles the system log, or sshd, which handles incoming SSH connections. (Wikipedia)

It’s also the title of an astonishing new novel. Daemon, by Leinad Zeraus is Snow Crash  (here’s the Wikipedia piece) for the next generation. Snow Crash, you might remember, shaped the way we got used to the web. Emerging in 1992, the novel gave form to thematic and philosophical notions that have colored the evolution of the Internet ever since.

Daemon is the story of a Game Company executive who, while dying of brain cancer, manages to achieve a plausible sort of immortality as a computer virus. Leinad Zeraus (Daniel Suarez spells his name backwards) melds real industry insight with very plausible technical scenarios. At the least, this is the emergence of an author of science driven  thriller. At best, it’s like snow crash..prophetic and structural.

All the way through the book, I wanted to call Jeff Hunter to see if he thought the ideas made sense. The world described in the novel is built in pieces of things that I understand. I want to know if it’s possible. Bot generated politics and economies sounds technical. In Daemon, it’s suspense.

Great Recruiting includes much more than winning competitive tactics. A hard look at the way that the long term future impacts the short range battlefield is essential to any Recruiting system that produces long term value. Daemon delivers a plausible alternate reality including Recruiting strategies that rival Google’s.

Get a copy and read it on your next flight.

Recruiters spend lots of time and energy reframing the mundane and technical. At their best, they deliver compelling stories about values and experiences. Daemon is an example of that craft.

• Professional and Personal Communication Across Generations Dan Schwabel beats our favorite drum.
• monster’s fickle on tickle (or the cost cutting continues) Guess what? Joel still doesn’t like them.
• How to not win friends and influence people Not everyone loves Recruiters. Recruiters rarely understand why.
• SEO – More then Just (sic) Hype Nicole St. Martin, Optimization Goddess, responds to some SEO Trashing
• Social Networks, What a Mess! As a profession, we are faced with too many tools and very little experience or wisdom in applying them effectively.

Next Tuesday, the 29th, the Recruiting Roadshow™ arrives in Cleveland, Ohio. This will be the sixth Roadshow to date. The project has been successful in each city we’ve visited.

If you’re in the neighborhood on Tuesday, please join us. You can register here.

As expected, each city turns out to be wildly different along recruiting fault line. Local population growth rates, ethnic diversity, geography, climate, industry, manners, regional culture, labor supply (by profession) and a number of other factors determine what’s really important. The number, density and tactics of the regional recruiting workforce depend on these issues. (more…)

•   Why Networking is Overrated This guy missed the boat.
•   Twitter May Not Have To Care About Uptime Any Longer Growth rate trumps service quality
•   The Reality of Depending on True Fans What it’s like to build self financing community.
•   Tweeting for Companies 101 Thorough corporate overview
•   China on the Rise - A Visual Take

In this article (Why Networking is Overrated), Marty Nemko advises job hunters to focus on creating a winning “application” rather than networking for a gig.

“If you don’t have a great network and dislike schmoozing, you’ll land a job faster if you devote most of your job search time to writing top-of-the-pile applications for well-suited job openings.” (Kiplinger)

It’s as if he had never heard of Applicant Tracking Systems (more…)