• A Bigger Message David Kippen points out the hard work in developing a distinctive employment brand
• Global SEO Strategies You’ll be tempted to think that Nicole St. Martin doesn’t agree with today’s article on SEO
• Employment Branding How To Animal continues to whittle the complex into the simple. He is simply amazing
• Pro or parasite? It’s easy for a company to argue that its skills requirements can be met only by experienced workers, just as it’s easy to dump the responsibility for hiring and training new graduates onto other companies. But there’s something distastefully parasitic about that.
• Content Is Becoming a Commodity Explosion of sources is the root of aggregator opportunities (Go, Recruitingblogs.com)

The Rapid Multiplication of Social Software Tools and Environments

So, now you can join an online social network whose membership is restricted to extremely narrow parameters. It’s so bad that the VCs are complaining. With no observable business model and limited barriers to entry, the proliferation of social software/networking sites is reaching a screaming peak. There are stories about recruiters who have joined 90 networks. (more…)

Personal publishing hits the Recruiting Industry in a variety of ways. From the Recruiter’s perspective, there are nearly infinite options for reaching out to prospective candidates. From the candidate’s perspective, the array of options for declaring one’s availability and competencies is enormous.

Blogs, communities, podcasts, video blogs, video interviews, video resumes, participative rating systems, networking tools, social software and, electronic trade groups offer dizzying volumes of possibility. The number of Recruiting blogs is over 500. The number of individual contributor blogs is in the Millions. From a sourcing perspective, the number places to look is overwhelming. (more…)

If you read the Wikipedia definition of an inflection point, you may come away confused.

An inflection point is “a point on a curve at which the curvature changes sign. The curve changes from being concave upwards (positive curvature) to concave downwards (negative curvature), or vice versa. If one imagines driving a vehicle along the curve, it is a point at which the steering-wheel is momentarily “straight”, being turned from left to right or vice versa.” (Wikipedia)

As industries grow and change, they pass through inflection points. These are moments when the structure is in place for a change but the change has not yet begun. Looking back, you can see the shift from the old order to the new. In the moment, however, it feels like the eye of the hurricane. Inflection points are the calm before the storm. (more…)