The Week In Recruiting (Reading the blogs so you don’t have to…)
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My fab 15 for the week:
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11. When presenting, speak less and learn more 12. Lisa says, “Stop Trying to Change Your Boss’s Mind and Make His/Her Lousy Idea Work!” 13. 10 reasons why your company should be jobcasting (Preach on, my brother!) 14. How to bring Sexy back. 15. Tips for building an employee handbook
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13 TWEETS OF THE WEEK:
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WHAT ARE NON-RECRUITERS SAYING ABOUT RECRUITERS?
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Xeus: Microsoft was giving away ping pong balls as part of its Georgetown recruiting effort. Is this a promotion of beer pong?
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aliasinkhorn: I have discovered there may be no one more incompetent in their profession than an employment recruiter. They wasted six months of my life.
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carlisia: Recruiter calls me at E542 *pretending* she has a great candidate, when she really wanted was to scoop out the dept. I fell right into it.
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LorenDavie: Developer thinking of using a recruiter? It makes you more expensive and implies you’re not capabile of getting work on your own (you are).
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fuerve: Waiting for the recruiter to call. Always makes for an irritating 15 minutes.
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rorris: I just got another cold email from a recruiter. The economy must not be THAT bad.
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pcharing: Whenever recruiter calls asking if I’m looking for a new job, I can’t help but wonder if the Universe is trying to tell me something.
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Geeklawyer: god***mit being followed by spammy legal recruiter
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hoyhoy: A recruiter told me today that it’s no longer cost-effective to outsource to India because the consultancies demand payment in euros.
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schwa: I replied to a spammy recruiter with a “Did you even LOOK at my resume”. He replied! I was not expecting that.
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maxskew: Just got this phrase from a recruiter: “support a mission-critical environment of immense complexity” – Who writes this stuff?
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Thanks for the shout, Jim. We have tended to be a very “talent-centric” company, but I believe that our commitment to do right by people needs to be tempered with realism about what we can actually do.
Matt