Thought For The Day: “There is no such thing as a leprechaun. It is a complete waste of time to spend your energy trying to find one. However, when you do find one, cherish it.”

• Social Recruiting Summit
  An interesting spin on the old fashioned Trade Show. ERE Media is delivering an event that wants to be part conference, part unconference. They’re doing it on the Google campus. In what has to be the recruiting marketing coup of the year, the site contains a massive volume of retweets for a free Jobvite webinar. It’s taking place on June 15.
• Collaboration
  How do we find the magic that makes small teams come to life?
• Social Recruiting | Candidate Expectations and Community Manager
  Last week, we talked about Josh Kahn‘s conversations about Talent Community Managers. Here’s a post from last August by  Shannon and Julian Seery Gude on  EXCELER8ion. It was the first time the idea was discussed. On EXCELER8ion, they called  jelly it “Recruiting Community Manager”. Josh’s term of art, “Talent Community Manager”, places the focus clearly on the potential employee, which is where the value should flow.
• Future Employee Parking And Social Recruiting
  Kristin Gissaro is a director at NAS Recruitment Communications. She believes that recruiting has become the art of mashing talent and technology in order to provide optimal results.
• Community managers and the evolution of the recruiting function
  Susan Burns on the four key skills of a Recruiting Community Manager.

Find me:

• I’m on Twitter, Facebook, y LinkedIn and Friendfeed. Catch up with me.
• I’m doing a Free Webinar: Regional HR Marketing and PR – Tailoring Sales to Market Realities
  – Thursday, May 7, 2009,
  – 10-11 am PT (1-2 pm ET)
• I’m leading an Intensive workshop called Recruiting Strategy in a Down Economy: Identifying What’s to Come in the Upturn at the Kennedy Recruiting Conference in Las Vegas on May 19.