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

Posted by Jim Stroud

July 13, 2008

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

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VIDEO: TEDTalks: Tony Robbins motivates you in 20 minutes

1. Should Recruiters Pass a Resume Around? 2. Chad and Cheez chew the fat 3. Everybody is into Socialmedia Recruiting! Umm… not so much 4. Recruiting.com is dead. 5. How to Narc on your Recruiter

VIDEO: TEDTalks: Malcom Gladwell

6. Resume clean up on Aisle 4 7. Here is my Vumber. Vall me. 8. Excuse me. What’s the motivation here? 9. Mr. Tipping Point on hiring 10. New California Law Requires Leave for Military Spouses

VIDEO: TED Talks: Do schools today kill creativity? (Ken Robinson)

11. Breaking up is hard to do 12. The US Supreme Court pimp slaps Circuit City for misclassifying salaried customer service managers 13. Recruiting Best Practices That Don’t Get Practiced 14. Job Hopping Still Sucks 15. How to deal with prima donna candidates

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THE WEEK IN TWEETS

pamclaughton: Great new recruiting industry website in its final dev phase, free membership, http://www.hirecentrix.com/ Created by Karen Mattonen

thatsjuststeve: Mid-major prospect to NBA Lottery pick: can’t believe I was recruiting Russell Westbrook three years ago…. AND he was interested.

johnhollon: @jessica_lee I wonder — how much is the quick acceptance factor due to the generally terrible state of the economy?

leifwells: Someone at blip.tv has too much time on their hands (http://www.chuckstar.com/blog/?p=186) but are pretty smart about recruiting.

georgedearing: Edelman says social networking shaved 1% off its bottom line by encouraging staff 2 use SoNet’s for recruiting | http://snurl.com/2wuii

manino: more of that sc, this time by HR http://tinyurl.com/6acr2p (expand). Reminds me of Malcolm Gladwell’s criticism of recruiting by exam

michaelmarlatt: YouTube – What is Jobs in Pods? An interesting look at social media and recruiting. Check it out.. http://tinyurl.com/5so5qq (expand) via www.dii …

saraelkins: talking about college recruiting season being just around the corner, what are your plans?

willyf: I love it when employers/employees of the companies I feature comment on my posts about them. That’s what Recruiting 2.0 is all about.

TFXL: How to build a network using web 2.0 recruiting and sourcing please watch this video http://tinyurl.com/5etlcy (expand)

Animal: The Professional Bar of Recruiting (I’m promoting my own stuff today so if you don’t like it just stay away) http://is.gd/Q9Z

qadmon_rss: Edublogs: Housing Market Woes Both Help and Harm Campus Recruiting: For junior faculty hires,.. http://tinyurl.com/68dzky

jorbb: Asia beats Australia at recruiting international talent: A Robert Half study indicates that Australia is no.. http://tinyurl.com/6l6us7

pocklock: Got an email from a recruiter recruiting me for the pos. I hire for! Either my resume totally sucks or someone didn’t do their research.