The Social Recruiter Blog (Hire Strategies)

Social recruiting: How not to #twinterview

You know you are losing it when this sounds like you.

• You introduce yourself with "Hello I'm @mary263, what's your twitter name?"
• You ask them to name their top 3 favourite #hashtags.
• You ask them to explain their biggest #failure and if it was a trending topic.
• You write #loser in your notes when the only LION's local watering hole they have been to was on a safari holiday. 
• When you ask them to name their favourite Rockstar you expect names like Chris Brogan, Seth Godin, and Guy Kawasaki?
• You are confused why they wanted to be a policeman, nurse, or professional footballer when they could have dreamed about being a social media guru, boolean search string blackbelt master or professional blogger.
• You ask how they get their daily news read expecting Techcrunch or Mashable.
• You ask them if they've been on YouTube or met any famous people who've been on YouTube.
• You Grader their application based on Friends and Followers, reach, resonance and relevance.
• You say goodbye with "Nice to have followed you, I won't be subscribing to your feed!"
• You update your recruitment system with skill codes like #moron #reject #noway.

But don't worry if this sounds like you; you're not alone and you even have your very own video.

I'm sure there are more questions so please do submit the ones you know of but of course would never dream of using.

#trulondon What was the ROI?

First of all I have to say well done to Bill Boorman for pulling off the most enjoyable social media event the UK has had so far this year.

But, was it just a great big jolly for the social media guru's that inhabit this earth to pump up each other's ego's with heartily applause (at the end of tracks), create more lovely video footage (for all their blogs) and generally drink beer (plenty of evidence to support this) while we all bowed to the greater force now known as social media?  And was there a positive ROI??

Google Wave: Use it for an interview maybe?

This is just cool - maybe a new way of interviewing?

Entitycube - the future of all (social) search? You really need to see this!

This is a research product from Microsoft and pretty much shows the way search is going.  Kind of Linkedin meets Twitter and all your contacts (degrees of separation) all in one go.  I'm sure it has a long way to go but it's a quick glimpse of the future.  Have a look while you can - maybe it will be hidden shortly?

http://entitycube.research.microsoft.com

Thanks to Paul for the nod on this one :-)

What is Entitycube?

Big, niche or dead?

The big question for any business is how to survive.  How big is big?  How niche is niche?  How dead is dead?  A lot of businesses (Woolworths, MFI etc) were dead but would not admit it.  So what about the world of recruitment?

Big is most likely top 1 or 2.  Anything else and it is only a matter of time before you eat or get eaten.  But as I can't really comment too much on big, how about niche?

Is E-resourcing niche enough?  Is Social Recruiting a bit better?  Or is it Facebook Recruiting only?  Got to pick a market that is big enough to sustain my extravagant lifestyle but niche enough not to be big.  Who know's?  What's your dilemma for 2010?  Survival or growth, niche or VERY niche?

Friday ramblings; I apologise.  Other work to do but distracted as ever - the life of a Blogger. Must get back to Twitter.  Or should I be waving these days - if only I knew how.

Seth Godin may be wrong on this one?

Looks like Seth felt the urge to follow me (:>] in commenting on Rupert Murdoch thinking of blocking search engines from his site. 

Recruitment 20??: You will charge agencies!

I can imagine the agency owners scoffing at such a suggestion when they can hardly charge out their services as it is let alone PAY employers!  But the game is changing and maybe this is not such a bad idea.  Take a moment to hear my thoughts on this one.

Best UK Recruitment Blog 2009 - Louie's rules

On what basis did the Top 10 become the Top 10.  Believe it or not, there was good reason.  Here follow the Top 10 rules with the blogs that offend Louie rule-by-rule.

1. Writing a few recent posts is a good start. (Thoughts on online recruitment [not many thoughts!])
2. You cannot just start writing again during the competition period. (Picture More)
3. Your blog has to be interesting rather than dull, dull, dull. (GAAPWeb)
4. Your blog must be your own and not a company blog. (Reckitt Benckiser)
5. You cannot be a medley of experts just to get some volume of posts. (Digital Recruiting)
6. You have to be original and not just a karaoke act. (Recruitment 2.0)
7. Outright plagiarism is not acceptable - put some effort in. (Simply Better)
8. Posts have to be more than a few lines of nothingness. (Enhance Media)
9. You need to write something new not state the bleeding obvious. (RiseSmart)
10. You must look like a blog star, sound like a blog star, and act like a blog star. (See this post)

Of course, some of you may well feel the rules have not been applied consistently.  Can I therefore refer you to the Louie Walsh Rule Book, rule 78, sub-section C, paragraph 4:

"The rules may be applied inconsistently to please the judge and any judgee considering this to be unfair - tough luck".

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Jobrapido - radical dudes they tell me

I contacted Jobrapido today to enquire about their XML job feed or API.  I loved the response so much I had to share it!