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

Posted by Jim Stroud

September 15, 2008

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My fab 15 for the week

This week featuring Military Recruiting Videos

1. Wages for IT talent go up, up, up! (in Singapore) 2. Can HR Staff Have Friends at Work? 3. Another One Bites the Dust? 4. Hmm… Does every job board do this? Or just Indeed? 5. Survey says…

6. Cheezhead has seen the future and its litigious 7. Are Salary Ranges still neccessary? 8. Roving recruitment ads 9. ODing in India 10. 10 Must-Do Steps Before Termination

11. 10 Reasons Why HR Professionals Should Blog 12. Is this discrimination or common sense? 13. Sig‘ lines 14. Long meetings are a waste of time 15. Telecommuting is on its way to becoming a standard (Hurrah! Let’s hear it for the Moofers)

The Week In Recruiting Tweets
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kwheeler: Anyone have any stories on cross-cultural recruiting? http://tinyurl.com/6ogxyz

RSS_Blorge: Yahoo turns up the heat on Google by recruiting hackershttp://tinyurl.com/67tj9r

jdarnell: recruiting members for the A-Team… As long as I’m Hannibal everyone else is fair game…

leTwitterGris: @jetdillo Is recruiting in American being outsourced to Hyderabad, or do they want you to go over there and pay you like a king?

GeoffPeterson: If you haven’t checked it out already, Jim Stroud has some great videos from SourceCon up on his blog: http://snurl.com/3pbby

VirtualRecruit: Hi late-night Tweets! Want a copy of Donato’s presentation and other post-SourceCon freebies? Go to http://www.broadlook.com/sourcecon08.

mgiwebb1: Is sourcing for mutliple roles right now, all different, oh and my head is still hurting from Sourcecon

SeattleSourcer: Working on getting my desk in order after SourceCon 2008! Amazing show! So much to implement and use!

BizWerkerJulia: Coming down off the SourceCon high from this week! boy do I need 2 days of sleep, but it was too fun to change anything.

infoman: Mobile Social Networking … anyone who heard Dave Copp’s talk atSourceCon will feel the deja vu here .. http://is.gd/2iBJ

ZenRecruiter: In the airport after SourceCon 2008, I overheard someone next to me at a restaurant talking about LinkedIn…

jonpbryant: s Sat morning. Decompressing after another incredible SourceConconference.

GerryCrispin: Raining. SourceCon this week hit the target. Several case studies presented by company sourcing teams opened a few eyes.

jletourneau: SourceCon 08: The Beauty of Non-GroupThinkers Crushing GroupThink While Passionately Collaborating & Embracing Disruptively Individual Minds

jeffbloch: Unemployment spiked to 6.1% today….cause all the great recruiters were rocking at SourceCon!! Back to work!!

researchgoddess: Retweeting @michaelmarlatt: sourcecon was a lot of fun! I met a lot of very cool people and made some great new connections!

GeoffPeterson: Back from SourceCon in Atlanta. Great speakers, great presentations, & great networking for the sourcing community. Looking forward to ‘09

PinkOliveFamily: so bummed that I couldn’t attend SourceCon

but hopefully next year.. thx to @jimstroud for that spy site.. great info from everyone..thx!

SearchWizards: Planning for SourceCon 2009

jimstroud: Hmm… I just thought about it. SourceCon awarded random participants over $300.00 in cash and prizes throughout the event. Nice surprise!