The Week In Recruiting (Reading the blogs, so you don’t have to…)

Posted by Jim Stroud

June 29, 2008

My Fab 15 of the week (and then some…)

*Note: With Bill Gates retiring and all the speculation on who will be the heir apparent after Steve Jobs makes his eventual exodus, I thought the next 3 videos would be the right thing to share. I hope you enjoy them as well as all of my picks for the week in recruiting. Enjoy…

Video: Trailer for the movie, “The Pirates of Silicon Valley”

1. After a week of, I am still wearily loyal to Twitter. However, there are dissenters in the midst. 2. Two weeks notice gone wrong 3. WTF? This is wrong on every level. (Sending my protest email now) 4. The Value Proposition in a Multi-Dimensional Workforce 5. Dan “The Man” Schawbel schools us on Social Media

Video: “Steve Jobs” skewers a job applicant in this scene from the movie, “Pirates of Silicon Valley.”

6. Is there a consultant in the house? 7. Bullhorn goes “Ka-ching!” 8. It sucks to be jobless in GA 9. Are you expecting too much from your job? 10. HR Leader made 19.6 MILLION dollars in total compensation last year. How much did you make? (pdf)

Video: Bill Gates on the day he made the best deal of his life

11. Major National Labor Relations Board Internet and Discrimination Decision 12. When do you use your sick days? 13. Students are outsourcing term papers to India. Sigh… 14. Online-Recruiting launches an English-only version of its blog. (Hallelujah!) 15. Mental illness and the workplace

RECRUITING TWEETS OF THE WEEK
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drecruits: Seems more companies are taking executive recruiting capabilities in-house. Kind of hard to be proactive and build a bench in that scenario.

liamorgan: Recruiting the Social Media Marketing Expert: Tips From A Search Firm Executive - great interview www.marketingvoices.com/

julian2: Beecher Wiggins says that the problem isn’t really recruiting black males; it’s really recruiting males at all to librarianship.

jphaynes1966: IBM is heavily recruiting SAP Basis folks in the area. Unable to hold on to they already have.

topix_sj: San Jose offers money for programs aimed at at-risk kids: With summer as the prime recruiting season for.. http://tinyurl.com/5musbs

andyheadworth: @stopps they had another strange recruiting video as well http://is.gd/HmK strange thinking from that lot!!!

peopleshark: we heart gay geeks! recruiting at SF Pride

lruettimann: @perrik I like it when candidates humor me just a little. I’m into recruiting for the power. If I wanted to help, I’d be a social worker.

lineren: When Jim Harbaugh turned states evidence against Big Blue it got me thinking about the way schools lie to kids on the recruiting trail.

KerouacGirl: skills has started a truck driving school and recruiting is trolling the parking lot cause we hire RETARDS!

talentline411: In what job besides recruiting do you get to combine the best aspects of bartender, bounty hunter, and investigator? I love days like this.

Animal: @marenhogan Maren, there aren’t a lot of people reading recruiting blogs, period. It’s a very small readership pool.

carlisia: Google recruiting: like the ex-lover that keeps coming back to haunt you every time you find new love

bigrednetwork: College Football Recruiting 101 http://tinyurl.com/5phyyb

bbcengland: A hospital defends recruiting a £32,000-a-year art director, saying it will help patients recover quicker. http://tinyurl.com/698khx

FistfulOfTalent: On Fisful of Talent: The Gay Experience and Your Employment/Recruiting Brand… http://tinyurl.com/6rx3f9

johnwalkerinfo: A major employer in San Diego ran a radio spot asking interested candidates to send a word to a txt number. Does texting work in recruiting?