Quite a few years ago, when I was a Sales Manager, I wanted to implement a formal sales process which we would ultimately automate. I battled internally with a bunch of moronic Regional Managers (they were great really) for about 18 months. I then met a Sales Consultancy who specialised in such ideas and as they had been working elsewhere within the Group they carried credibility with our Board.
The Internet followed by recession has accelerated changes in how we work with more and more people working from home, hot desking, part-time, job sharing, second jobs, home based businesses etc. So what's the impact on recruitment particularly as we come out of recession and back into growth? Will the digital nomads be prepared to come back to the old world of employment?
Although you need to have a strategy that dictates the need for you to build a community, assuming you do, what about the technology? You can use Ning which is great and starts off as a free platform or you can get Jive which is the market leader with a Gucci price tag to match.
A good start point is the Gartner, Inc.'s 2009 Magic Quadrant for Social Software in the Workplace which you can get from Jive if you register here.
There is also the Enterprise Social Media event on 15/16 March at Olympia in London where you'll be able to check out various vendors that offer community software.
The number one consideration for me is data security. Not how secure is it, but how open is it. If for example you want to run an internal workplace community a platform such as Ning is not ideal whereas Jive will be too expensive for a lot of companies. Whilst a lot of companies are taking a strategic view of such ideas they are not necessarily expecting to invest £250k to achieve this with a yet unproven outcome. We are very much in the "land grab" scenario at the moment with very few UK providers but there are some. As I'll be at the event in Olympia I will be looking out for some alternatives as community building, internal and external, is key to any talent management strategy.
If any one is also going or wants to meet up post TRULondon I'll be around on 15/16 March.
Just over 12-months ago I wrote a report about Social Media in the Workplace hoping that social networks would be freely available to all employees. So how does it look now?
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As direct recruiters have to continuously prove themselves they will need to look to move ever closer to a "net zero cost-per-hire." If they don't, the RPO vendors will continue to circle ahead whilst the flat fee boys will nibble at their ankles; nice and friendly at first but they'll soon be wanting ever bigger bites!
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When David Beckham scores the winning goal in the 89th minute of the 2010 World Cup from one of his famous free kicks he will be the hero of the England (again).
It is only a matter of time before Axel Springer finally acquire Stepstone. For further details read:
The other rumour on the mill is that Mr Ted are being acquired by Success Factors.
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Are we already out of recession and into recovery mode?
I suppose it depends which journalist you believe really. Whatever happens and wherever we are in this economic cycle I have decided to rename HR yet again. An old customer of mine always referred to HR as Human Remains but as a factory manager of 3000+ people he did have a few opinions about HR! But that aside, I have decided that our fate lies in the hands of HR who are responsible for getting everyone back to work.
No, it’s not down to Gordon Brown and his cronies but HR or Human Recovery as I now call them.
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When I was a young mechanic we followed a system for anything from making a cup of tea to rebuilding an engine. All the big marketing Guru's tell you about "the system" they use and why it works. To be honest, recruitment is just a system that if followed works. Yes, if you are good you can develop your own but as most corporate recruiters are short on time, money and sometimes experience they do not need to reinvent the wheel.
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