June 12th, 2008

080612 Daily Links (June 12, 2008)

June 10th, 2008

080610 Daily Links (June 10, 2008)

June 9th, 2008

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June 6th, 2008

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June 5th, 2008

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June 4th, 2008

080604 Daily Links for June 04, 2008

  • The Current Invitation for the Portland Recruiting Roadshow (June 20th, you’re invited)
  • Celebrity MySpace Hacking - Paris Hilton & Lindsay Lohan’s Private Pics Really. This little piece highlights the ease with which myspace profiles can be compromised. Interesting for sourcers and background checkers. Interesting for people who think the web is a safe place to publish personal information.
  • Reinventing online advertising: Exploiting the Achilles’ heel of the agency-media complex Good reminders about the fact that most online media involves generals who are fighting the last war.
  • Another Dimension To The Talent Market Susan Burns is everywhere these days. “It is quite important for companies to understand where certain types of talent clusters tend to form and grow as they look at business decisions that are uniquely dependent on human capital. Chances are, however, that not every company can be, will be, or move to where the talent is. The choices are either spend a lot more trying to get the talent needed, spend a lot more on developing the talent you have, or celebrate what makes the talent you desire successful and work with them wherever they may be.
  • Does MySpace jobs have better SEO juice than CareerBuilder? From the comments, “I’ve been seeing MySpace Jobs results come up for all kinds of job related searches- often when the page has no relevant content. I thought Google didn’t like to index search results, but apparently they do for MySpace Jobs. Typically the results are low quality and have no business ranking where they do.
    By the way, my search results for this query are totally different. I made sure to turn off Personalized Search.
June 3rd, 2008

080603 Daily Links (June 03, 2008)

  • Starbucks offers new flavor: Free Wi-Fi The international offices of all recruiters now have free wireless!!!
  • Take time out - gain perspective.The further you drift away from the conversation the harder it is to become enthusiastic about the direction it takes and this is the curse of social media: it is addictive in the sense that you need to keep an involvement in order to maintain an overview and monitor the breadth of conversation rather than trying to control it in one location. Conversations will occur wherever there are people - this is not going to change so people just have to get used to it. This distribution of the discussion is what’s really important; you are exposing a potentially greater audience to the conversation and allowing it to take twists that otherwise it wouldn’t take.
  • Google lets admins control site search In the area where sourcing and SEO/SEM intersect, this is big news. Paying customers of Google’s Custom Search Business Edition can control what does and doesn’t get searched on their sites. The possibilities for blocking unintended searches (sourcing) and modifying rankings are significant.
  • Ramer and Sumser in Vegas A video interview by Dave Mendoza
  • The Current Invitation for the Portland Roadshow (June 20th, you’re invited)
June 2nd, 2008

080602 Daily Links

  • The Future Of Social Isn’t Content Spewing (I Hope) Arrington gels the arguments in recent conversations about the future of Social Media. In one utopian view it’s “every single human being posting their thoughts and experiences in any number of ways to the Internet.”  Arrington says, “The future of social media, I hope, isn’t in more tools to help us spew more content. Instead, we need ideas and technology that can leverage all this available online content (including status and activity streams) to enhance real world social interactions.” He must be reading about the Recruiting  Roadshow experiments.
  • The Future of Mobile Social Networking MIT’s Technology Review speculates about Steve Jobs next product introduction wave on June 9th “using the iPhone’s map and self-location features, as well as  information about the prior activities of the user’s friends, Whrr  proposes new places to explore or activities to try.”
  • TrendWatch: Comparing MicroMemes, Network Feeds, and MacroMemes    Jeremiah Owyang provides food for thought about making sense of the various kinds of information available in social networks.
  • Job Boards Are Restaurants, Databases Are Home Cooking From Alex Cantu comes the Talent Drive view of the universe.
  • Recruiting Slow? The Problem’s Not Your Tools…If the recruiter isn’t doing well enough to afford their own iPhone, they probably can’t afford your system..”. So says Maren Hogan “What dismays me is this massive array of tools available for those of us in the talent acquisition and management spaces. Holy shitake! You’d  think that with enough vendors to fill a football stadium, our issues as recruiters would be solved by now.”
May 30th, 2008

080530 Daily Links

  • Digging Into Recruitingblogs.com V 1.7 Advanced LinkedIn user abandons service.
  • Twitter: Don’t blame Ruby, blame Scoble In the spirit of LinkedIn being passive aggressive with Recruiters, Twitter joins the fray by blaming its users for its problems. Truth is, power users cause technology to fail while communications companies are inherently technical. Part of the risk in radical transparency (as Twitter is learning to practice) is that when you are wrong, that’s transparent, too. This is a nice look at some of the isues.
  • Naveen Jain’s Latest Scam: Intelius Infospace founder is giving  a bad name to background checking. It’s hard to be slimier than the  rest of the “guilty until proven innocent” crowd.
  • Web Technology Trends for 2008 and Beyond Pointer and instructions for short useful presentation.
  • NotHired Real, now.
May 29th, 2008

080529 Daily Links

  • Akamai Releases State of the Internet Report South Korea has the fastest internet in the world
  • The Fork in the Road for Social MediaDown one road is adding more features to a walled garden and opening up just enough, so that users seldom need to leave. Most sites are going down this yellow brick road and the prize is clearly a big one. But they may end up back in Kansas. Down the other road, lies a future of being the primary repository for your connections (aka the social graph), but with this data available via open APIs to anybody who needs it. That is a utility type model, and as with any utility, it can be hugely valuable at scale.”
  • The career site 2.0 As people with specific skill sets become harder to find will we start to see more and more microsites?
  • The Resume is Alive and Kickin’ “I haven’t retired,” cried The Resume. “I’m working but I’m under-employed and unappreciated.”
  • Ups & Downs of China’s Labor ShortagesOn a recent trip overseas I struggled to explain shortages for both professionals and workers in a land of 1.3 billion people, with the added contradiction of a shortage of jobs for Chinese graduates.
  • lshanon: Hi John. I just want to clarify - I didn’t trash SEO, in fact I advocated for it. My post was about...
  • ckingsbury: Oh, and I _love_ cover letters. I actually read them before reading the resume, and we built our ATS to...
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  • Mark Hornung: Their loss, John. It is hard, though, for those who tell truth to power. But as you write, look to...
  • Moises: Very insightful post.
  • Amitai Givertz: To your point: “Of course, my value laden precision targeted bulk email would never be spam,...
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