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

Posted by Jim Stroud

October 12, 2008

My Fab 15 for the week…

video: A satiric (but true) look at what is happening all over the world

1. Is HR the answer to the credit crunch? 2. US Government estimates the recruiting industry will grow by at least 50% by 2014 3. Would you hire a perpetual student? 4. What HR/Staffing can do during periods of extreme uncertainty 5. Help! I’m Being Social-Networked to Death! 6. SMS for recruiting 7. One day, one job (finally) 8. If at first you don’t succeed, ahhh… just quit. 8. Umm… I don’t know. 9. Five Things to Tell Your 401k Participants in This Down Economy 10. 10 Safety Tips for Employers Hiring Young Workers

11. A different kind of discrimination 12. What’s wrong with Googling applicants? 13. Best Practices for Using Cell Phone Text Messaging to Recruit College Students 14. Days Off and Vacation are not the same. (Amen) 15. Hah! I would laugh too. He’s too funny to fire.

The Week In Tweets

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Do not kick the bycycles, do not kick the bycycles, do not… http://i33.tinypic.com/23h3n5s.jpg
Best Places to Work in HR winners announced - http://tinyurl.com/3hqh8u
21 Most Recession & Depression-Proof Jobs - http://www.brainz.org/depression-jobs/
The latest DOL Unemployment Stats (It ain’t good) http://www.bls.gov/news.release/metro.nr0.htm
Mailman fights for right to wear a kilt (umm… yeah) http://tinyurl.com/46h7×3
750,000 lost jobs and $250 billion loss to the US Economy - http://tinyurl.com/4sdqm8
Top-Salaried Jobs for Women: 5 Great Reasons to Return to School - http://tinyurl.com/4hlyh9
Bosses from Hell (and why’re they’re that way) http://tinyurl.com/42h4jn
What are the Good Qualities of a Developer? - http://tinyurl.com/5y3zwa
6 Emails You Get When Your Company Is About to Go Under - http://tinyurl.com/4czbdv
EBay lays off 1000 employees, then turns around and buys 2 new companies. Go figure. http://tinyurl.com/4wf33x
ATTN MICROSOFT RECRUITERS: Have you read this? Be aware before you interview your next candidate. http://tinyurl.com/3fyv9u
ATTN: RECRUITERS WORKING FROM HOME - 11 Tips for Working Remotely. http://tinyurl.com/4otzwe
Maybe give this to candidates you are sending to an interview, along with directions to the office (just in case)
Man sells blog for $15,000,000.00 http://tinyurl.com/4e43bl (Inspiration for recruiting bloggers everywhere!)
Attention Microsoft Recruiters! Read this and have a rebuttal before it comes up in an interview - http://tinyurl.com/4d2ycp
How an Engineer folds a T-Shirt - http://tinyurl.com/5yssah
Ex-Workforce Services Employee Pleads Guilty in ID Theft Case - http://tinyurl.com/4aj5kv
Calling in sick suggests that you think you may die early. (Really?) - http://tinyurl.com/3k2psb