Thought For The Day: “If you’re not thinking of Amazon as a social networking company, you should.” —Dave Winer Fordyce Letter Network 1834 Members, 151 Forum Discussions (about 1/day), Blog Posts 215 (about 1/day). Part of the ERE family. This small network includes some of the usual suspects and some serious talent. This may be […]
Thought For The Day: “”There is no security on this earth. Only opportunity.” — Douglas MacArthur via Richard Becker New Blog: Job Board About a month old, the author is intelligent and experienced. If the blog stays regular, it will become a landmark in the recruitosphere. The U.S. Economy Does Not Exist Great piece on […]
Thought For The Day: “How old would you be if you didn’t know how old you were?” ~Satchel Paige via Elaine Orler HRM Today 924 Members, professional HR orientation. Lots of SHRM overlap. Founded and operated by Jenn Barnes (HR Wench) , Lance Haun (YourHRGuy.com) and Laurie Ruettimann (Punk Rock HR). They have about 300 […]
Thought For The Day: ““Fall down seven times. Stand up eight”- Japanese proverb via Dennis Smith Splits.org Recruiters helping recruiters. 2 days old, still in beta, 2 sendouts in process. Bootstrapping the scrappy small business end of the industry. Jason Davis executes another brainstorm with Miles Jennings. Based on the use of the #splits hashtag. […]
Thought For The Day: “The first huge dustup is the first sign that an online community is going to survive.” “http://startuplessonslearned.blogspot.com/2008/09/lean-startup.html”>Lean Startup “The Lean Startup is a disciplined approach to building companies that matter. It’s designed to dramatically reduce the risk associated with bringing a new product to market by building the company from the […]
Thought For The Day: “Here’s the difference between so called passive and active candidates. The price of the attention of a passive candidate is higher than the price for an active candidate. (Obviously, it’s a spectrum, not a binary distinction)” Digging Into RecruitingBlogs.com v2.11 Spam Police Thinking about the value and use of attention in […]
Thought For The Day: “Sometimes, the initial fruits of success look exactly like failure.” Work Strong Peter Weddle’s blog on finding work and getting more satisfaction from it is a breath of fresh air. It’s a boomer ethic complement to Brazen Careerist. Google Page Rank Explained As social software takes full root, it’s useful to […]
Thought For The Day: “Hire slowly. Fire quickly” – Zappos McKinsey: What Matters: Organization From well outside of the bounds of conventional HR comes this McKinsey package of articles about Talent Futures. They were, you’ll remember, the source of the original “War for Talent” meme. Of particular note: The new talent imperative and Netting young employees. Portrait […]
Thought For The Day: “While the need for talent is the same all over the world, different locations are currently facing very different challenges.” 5 Steps to model successful Twitter users Find role models, look at their quantitative performance, emulate them, measure yourself. Twitter Friends Quantitative measures of your Twitter performance. Nice model for good […]
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