Jim Hammock

Jim Hammock (May 06, 2009) Jim Hammock is one of the reasons that our industry is in the shape it is today. A lumbering Texan, with long credits as an IBM Sales Engine and as a fixer for big time VCs, Hammock was the CEO of Hire.com. He was Hank Stringer‘s operating partner for the […]
 

090414 Job Board Links

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Thought For The Day: Free content does not mean low value, no matter what the expensive content providers say. craigslist as a poor recruiting tool I’m not sure what you call it when one competitor calls the other a bad name. In this case, Tony Lee, VP of Nework Operations at Adicio is lambasting Craigslist. […]
 

HRTechCentral

HRTech Central (April 03, 2009) I’m putting my resources behind a new offering called HRTechCentral. Tony Karrer, the guy behind the new effort thinks hard and deeply about how people learn, how they consume information, how they interact with blogs and what information they might need. As a leader in the learning end of the […]
 

090330 Comunities and Sourcing

Thought For The Day: “Why join the navy if you can be a pirate?” Steve Jobs Employee Engagement Network 1,029 Members (adding 2-3/day), 219 Discussions, 295 Blog Posts Magic Method 1,349 members and home to the weekly (open to all) MagicMethod Phone Sourcing Class Chats –  90 class logs posted at the site. Boolean Strings […]
 

The Twitter Revolution

The Twitter Revolution (Mar 24, 2009) It’s no small irony that I write this note from my office in Bodega Bay, CA. This place is known for its assortment of unique avian inhabitants. The reputation was enough to convince Alfred Hitchcock to film the classic move about birds right here. Twittering, the squawking that frightened […]
 

090324 New Services Links

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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. […]
 

090318 Hiring Links

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 […]
 

090306 Transformation Links

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Thought For The Day: The society is more bankrupt than the financial system. What battered newsrooms can learn from Stewart’s CNBC takedown1) Great research trumps good access to the powerful 2) The American public is mad as hell right now, so why isn’t the mainstream media? 3) Tear down this wall…of pretending that the media itself isn’t […]
 

090302 Recruiting Links

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Thought For The Day: See the Sourcing Is Dead Debate on RBC A History of HR Standards Bookmark this set of articles. It’s the story of the effort to create an integrated standard for HR Systems interoperability. While the project made some headway, few people have a real stake in a positive outcome. The results, […]
 

090220 Tech Industry Links

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Thought For The Day: “HR People are Nomadic” – Heard on The  Recruiting Animal Show The Apple Mafia Corporate culture can shape much more than the insides of the company.  A look at Apple influence and the culture of other Silicon Valley giants. ShareThis is the next big data platform “If the current iteration of […]