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

Posted by Jim Stroud

July 21, 2008

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

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VIDEO: Hacking the Technical Interview

1. 4 Reasons why you should love being audited 2. How to deal with managers who give you the finger (literally) 3. Reputation matters. 4. Does Google promote age discrimination with its “Work Hard, Play Hard” tag line? 5. EEOC Files Male-on-Male Harassment Suit Against Cheesecake Factory. YoWZa!

VIDEO: Betty Boop recruits for the US Army

6. Employers Plan Average Pay Increases of 3.9 Percent Next Year, Despite Poor Economy. 7. EEOC says discrimination suits up a whopping 21%! Can’t we all get along? 8. Think you’re a good BS detector? I doubt it 9. 80:20 doesn’t work 10. The declining value of the college degree

VIDEO: WANTED – Morgan Freeman and Angelina Jolie recruit a new assassin into their Secret Society

11. Five Steps to Killing the Billable Hour 12. Top 100 job board niches – 2008 13. The resume as art 14. A $46,700,000.00 pay out 15. Court Backs Craigslist in Discrimination Brouhaha

The Week In Tweets:
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denverposttalk: Comment: Recruiting goes Down Under: Do these people have to pay income taxes on this money? http://tinyurl.com/643l62
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jvnotifypro: Instead of mass recruiting JV partners every launch, create and nurture JV relationships one at a time into strategic alliances

elizabethkudner: Recruiting students to produce video blog posts for us. If you know anyone interested contact info@myusearch.com

cfocoach: Recruiting the Passive Candidate http://blog.cfo-coach.com

jjbuss: new online recruiting marketplace http://bit.ly/qtnhi

craxy: Glad to see that the armed services are recruiting for the Lioness program in Iraq, because lord knows women all get the respect stateside.

jessica_lee: hr/recruiting pros – what do you do with candidates who have “unprofessional” pics on facebook, myspace, etc.? and do you always check?

williamu: Great interview with Y! about recruiting in adverse circumstances (understatement). Will post early next week… (thanks “C”!)

CincyRecruiter: Recruiter peeps: Many recruiters have concerns/issues about working w/corp HR. Do u have similar feelings about corp Director of Recruiting?

susannacesar: Graduate recruiting tip #5: Start an online relationship http://tinyurl.com/5f4nq9

ashchristopher: Recruiting email from last night (with all ‘To:’ contacts visible) has lead to over 200 replies.

thedulin: If you are in the Recruiting biz, follow ZenRecruiter. He’s a mad scientist when it comes to boolean and delivery strategies.

malburns: Many companies are infiltrating virtual worlds for employee meetings, mixers, and recruiting http://twurl.nl/e3bzr5

marenhogan: twitter+recruiting=talent talk cafe http://www.viddler.com/explore/marenhogan/videos/12/

Pantos93: @darkrepublican y’know you might have more luck recruiting people to your job if you didn’t refer to it like such a horrible place

comicbooknoise: White-power groups recruiting from the military (via FriendFeed) http://tinyurl.com/5poy4n

HireCentrix: NEW!R4Conference- help businesses understand the integrated challenges of Risk Management,Regulations,Retention&Recruiting http://is.gd/VzY.
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emplo: Lessons from a recruiter on how to construct your email address for use in job hunting. http://www.genuinejobs.com/firstchance.shtml