Employment Law Blog Carnival with Heather Bussing This week we hosted the Employment Law Blog Carnival - a compilation of fourteen articles that answer questions like: Can you discipline someone (or be disciplined) for a Facebook post? Can you refuse to hire someone because she is pregnant? What should you think about when terminating an […]
I don’t think much of best practices and big generalizations about our profession. Recruiting practices that work famously at Google are recipes for disaster in a factory near Macon, Ga. What works as personality assessment in Minneapolis is downright dumb in Baton Rouge.
Last week, I told you about the fact that BeKnown‘s basic Facebook traffic had caught up with Branchout. I can share more detail today on what these numbers might mean.
There are two kinds of businesses emerging on the scene today. One, blessed with resources from investors, is heavily oriented towards tool creation in social technology. The other, personified by Craig Fisher, is being built by people with substantial time in the trenches.
You Don't Know Recruiting There's no Recruiters Anonymous where we can stand up and share our woes. No psychotherapists with an in-house recruiter specialty. As recruiting and talent acquisition leaders, we're not looking to scream and yell or kick down your door. But the root of frustration is this: you don't know what it means […]
I’ll be sitting in the audience at HREvolution on Sunday October 2, 2011. It’s like the warm up band for HR Tech. Imagine that it’s Lucinda Williams opening for Dean Martin. It’s like that. If you want to understand where HR is headed, check out HR evolution and HR Tech (Oct 3-5). I hope to see you there.
When Google makes suggestions as you search for a specific name, those suggestions create an impression of the person you’re searching for. It turns out that your reputation is now partly a function of what people search for when they search for you.
We are at the edges of the second generation of social media. Much of the original hype has been tested and found a wanting. It turns out that we don’t really like seeing job ads in the middle of the flow of descriptions of last night’s burritos. It seems like we don’t really want to flood our personal brag-a-thons with the story of our struggle to find meaning and work. We are not really the company’s solution to its staffing problems nor are we our friends’ gateway to work.
BeKnown’s user count has surpassed Branchout’s. It’s not much of a surprise. One of a job board’s primary skills is candidate acquisition. As the company that wrote the book on the subject, Monster is uniquely prepared to build an online network.
You probably don’t know someone who can get you a job. Most of the people you know won’t be a good fit at your company either. That doesn’t sound much like the land of milk and honey described by the proponents of social media as a recruiting and job hunting tool.
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