Why am I called African-American when I’ve never been to Africa in my life? Karen and Jim both want to know. Should companies be compelled to create prayer rooms for their employees? (Its almost happening in the UK.) And if I am checking my blackberry in the check out line, I should get paid for it. If you use a company phone to send text messages, does the employer have the right to read them? (The answer may surprise you.) All this, plus, a few shameless plugs for new websites! Tune in to another exciting episode of The Recruiters Lounge Podcast.
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04:50 - Still, never heard of them
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17:10 - A lot of rainbow kids in America, but yet there are high levels of (employment) discrimination
20:28 - If I say I am biracial, people say, “What, you’re not proud of being black?”
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Karen has a new and future-oriented vision of what recruiting can and should become: a profession we can be proud of for its ethical standing, professional conduct and ability to build great organizations. Her doing-well-by-doing-right philosophy is shaking up the status quo in an industry that needs to be shaken. She does this with conviction, leadership, and a distinctive voice that cries out for change.
Karen was a co-creator of the landmark webinar event – “EEOC Discrimination Debate.” This event featured senior members of the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) and staffing industry experts discussing and debating difficult issues about discrimination in today’s workplace environment. Company executives, hiring managers, recruiters, and human resource professionals from across the United States were invited to participate in the free Webinar and live panel discussion. Karen also served as one of the panelists on the discussion team in the March, 2006 event.
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Jim Stroud is a Searchologist with an expertise in the full life-cycle placement of Executive and Technical personnel, Recruitment Research and Competitive Intelligence. He has consulted for such companies as Google, Siemens, MCI and a host of start-up companies. He presently serves Microsoft as a Technical Sourcing Consultant and is a regular contributor to Microsoft’s Technical Careers Blog.
Jim Stroud was nominated (and a top 10 finalist) for a Best Blog Award for his blog “Jim Stroud 2.0, by Recruiting.com in 2006 and cited in Bullhorn’s Research Report: Tools of The Trade 2007 as being among the best blogs on the recruiting industry (50,000 staffing and recruiting professionals were surveyed). His podcast series “The Recruiters Lounge” recently aired its 100th episode. His comicstrip series - “The Recruiting Life” has also celebrated its 100th edition and was nominated for Best Ongoing Comic Series and Best Newcomer of 2006 by Gnomz, a community of Comic creators. Jim Stroud also trains recruiters on how to source the internet for passive candidates and has trained recruiting organizations worldwide. His experience in using the internet to find hidden talent spans a decade. Jim Stroud can reached via his website: www.jimstroud.com
I have been working on Resume Forensics 2.0 (Are you on my update list?) and coming up with lots of neat tools and tricks. Well, one of my discoveries is the search engine - Summize.
What makes Summize cool is that is a search engine for Tweets. Here are a few things I have been using it for.
1. Looking for software developers (aka Geeks) skilled in Ruby on Rails. I simply type in key terms “ruby rails” and (as shown by the screenshot below) I discover a list of Tweeters who are discussing Ruby on Rails. (Go figure…) So what do I do at that point? Simply send them a message directly and say, “Hey, I say you discussing Ruby on Rails. What a coinkydink, I have a job for a Ruby on Rails geek. Can we talk?”
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2. Now let’s say I want to look for Java Developers, but only those located in Atlanta. Not a problem! I use the search operator “near” to restrict my results to those Twits who have cited their location as being in Atlanta. This is what I typed: near:Atlanta java.
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3. Let’s say that I am looking for geeks skilled in Semantic Technology. Well, to shake things up a bit, I try a different strategy. I pop over to Google and do a search for 2008 Conferences dealing with Semantic Search and come up with the 2008 Semantic technology Conference. (Screenshot below)
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I then begin to wonder, hmm… “I wonder how many people are Tweeting about this conference?” So I do a search and find 2 pages of results (at least at this writing).
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A quick skim of the results shows me that there are quite a few people excited about going. Most likely, these are people I may want to recruit? Pretty nifty huh? (Smile)
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*Note: With Bill Gates retiring and all the speculation on who will be the heir apparent after Steve Jobs makes his eventual exodus, I thought the next 3 videos would be the right thing to share. I hope you enjoy them as well as all of my picks for the week in recruiting. Enjoy…
Video: Trailer for the movie, “The Pirates of Silicon Valley”
drecruits: Seems more companies are taking executive recruiting capabilities in-house. Kind of hard to be proactive and build a bench in that scenario.
liamorgan: Recruiting the Social Media Marketing Expert: Tips From A Search Firm Executive - great interview www.marketingvoices.com/
julian2: Beecher Wiggins says that the problem isn’t really recruiting black males; it’s really recruiting males at all to librarianship.
jphaynes1966: IBM is heavily recruiting SAP Basis folks in the area. Unable to hold on to they already have.
topix_sj: San Jose offers money for programs aimed at at-risk kids: With summer as the prime recruiting season for.. http://tinyurl.com/5musbs
peopleshark: we heart gay geeks! recruiting at SF Pride
lruettimann: @perrik I like it when candidates humor me just a little. I’m into recruiting for the power. If I wanted to help, I’d be a social worker.
lineren: When Jim Harbaugh turned states evidence against Big Blue it got me thinking about the way schools lie to kids on the recruiting trail.
KerouacGirl: skills has started a truck driving school and recruiting is trolling the parking lot cause we hire RETARDS!
talentline411: In what job besides recruiting do you get to combine the best aspects of bartender, bounty hunter, and investigator? I love days like this.
Animal: @marenhogan Maren, there aren’t a lot of people reading recruiting blogs, period. It’s a very small readership pool.
carlisia: Google recruiting: like the ex-lover that keeps coming back to haunt you every time you find new love
johnwalkerinfo: A major employer in San Diego ran a radio spot asking interested candidates to send a word to a txt number. Does texting work in recruiting?
I interrupt this special week of Tweeting, to post a note about an Online Recruitment Surveythat I was supposed to mention prior to my “One Solid Week of Tweets” experiment. (Sorry). Well, this is the deal…
How relevant are Online Job Boards these days?
How many qualified candidates do you actually find on these Job Boards?
And howzabout those pricing models? Do they work for you?
Well, I want to know and (I imagine) you do too? So click here to fill out the Online Recruitment Survey. Once the votes are in, I will share the results with you. Cool? Cool…
And now, back to my tweeting! And in case you don’t know what I mean, I am retweeting, umm… reposting my “One Solid Week of Tweets” blog post below.
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If you are going to recruit using Social Media, I suggest that you add Twitter to your strategy. Why? 2 reasons:
Its popular and where people are, so are passive prospects.
See previous comment.
In case you are not aware of it, I Tweet. Maybe not as much as some, but I do my fair share. In case you are scratching your head as to what I mean, I am referring to Twitter. What is Twitter? I think Wikipedia describes it better than I ever could.
Twitter is a free social networking and micro-blogging service that allows users to send “updates” (or “tweets”; text-based posts, up to 140 characters long) to the Twitter web site, via the Twitter web site, short message service (SMS), instant messaging, or a third-party application such as Twitterrific or Facebook.
Updates are displayed on the user’s profile page and instantly delivered to other users who have signed up to receive them. The sender can restrict delivery to those in his or her circle of friends (delivery to everyone is the default). Users can receive updates via the Twitter website, instant messaging, SMS, RSS, email or through an application. For SMS, four gateway numbers are currently available: short codes for the United States, Canada, and India, as well as a United Kingdom number for international use. Several third parties offer posting and receiving updates via email.
Here is a great how-to video on Twitter as well. (I posted it on my blog before, but am doing so again now for convenience sake.)
I was a bit slow to Twitter initially, but soon began to love it. As my worklife and personal life began to compete with my blogging life, the idea of typing a few short thoughts became more and more appealing. So I began “following” others and quietly taking notes, while gradually building a Twitter strategy/theory of my own. Although Twitter is built around the idea of “What are you doing?” I want to try it a different way, at least for this week.
So, for the week of June 23, 2008, I plan on blogging exclusively on Twitter. Check out what is going on at my Twitter page located at: http://twitter.com/jimstroud You can also click the screenshot of my Twitter homepage below. As you may notice, I have my comic strip in the background. I might change that, just depends on the feedback I get and my mood this week. (And just as a FYI, you might want to subscribe to The Twitter Report for more tips and tricks on how to use Twitter.)
Depending on how things go with this experiment, I may also take a peek at some other microblogging sites aka “Twitter Clones.” I have been hearing a lot about these alternative sites to Twitter, especially since Twitter has been having growing pains with their servers buckling under the increased popularity. As I have experienced a couple of outages while defending Twitter, I have to say that alternatives have been on my mind a bit as well.
These are some of the other sites I have been kicking the tires on:
Pownce
I have not jumped head first yet into Pownce, but instead have been reading user comments about it. These are some of the comments that I have picked up on.
Looks slick and has some nice features like sending files and event announcements to all of your Pownce friends.
You can import your Twitter contacts to Pownce, but since its not all that popular yet (at least in comparison to Twitter), chances are not to many of your contacts will already be there. For that matter, the contacts importer seems to be on vacation as well. Not good.
I also heard that Pownce has been having major glitches with its system with nominal traffic. Not too encouraging for me as aggravated as I am with Twitter going down some times. (And I am not the only one. Click here to see a funny video about Twitter’s service going out.)
So, not only do they not have first mover advantage, their system is a bit “blinky.” I hear more complaints than praise about Pownce, but I am still considering giving them a shot by adding a profile there. Next up on my list is what I consider to be a contender for the Twitter throne, assuming that Twitter does not fix its systems fast and/or does something really, really stupid to really tick off its users. (I have no idea what that could be.)
Plurk
Plurk is the newest kid on the block and in comparison to Twitter, a prettier younger woman. I have actually received invites to join Plurk and I observe it to be the next new shiny object in the world of web 2.0. Plus, for all the hype and activity around Plurk, it manages to stay online. (Good for you Plurk!)
I like that Plurk scrolls horizontally and not vertically, just because its disruptive to do so. However, that move may come back to bit them in the hinee. For example, one reason Twitter is on top is because so many developers have made tools for it. If they develop stuff for Plurk with it scrolling horizontally, will they have to go out of their way to make their apps fit it? Could it work on an IM Client? A non-IPhone cell phone? I dunno, just posing the question.
That not withstanding, I LOVE the colors and the added features like Karma points that I assume will be redeemable for cash and prizes on some later date? I also like the way the Top Plurkers are displayed when you browse the members. There is also a mobile version to Plurk, but I have not tried it out yet, so nothing to say there. I have noticed that when I was on Firefox I had some issues seeing the timeline, but that might have been a momentary thing.
Jaiku is also a “me-too” site, but since Google recently bought it, I have to give it some attention. Jaiku has a lot of bells and whistles that Twitter does not, but I imagine will eventually integrate into its offering.
Jaiku comes with apps that let you add external sources of information into your stream like: weather, news, your favorite blogs and so on.
Jaiku also (and I like this) lets you set up groups of users around a common interest or around your choices. (For example, you could set up a group of family members, friends, clients, et cetera)
Jaiku also lets you see where in the world people are (if they have set that up in their preferences).
You need an invite to get in and at this writing, I do not have any. When I do, I will hollah out and let you know if you are curious about the service.
Honorable Mentions:
I don’t know anything about these microblogging sites, but they came up in my search so I thought I would mention them.
Okay, that’s it for now! Be sure to “Follow Me” on Twitter (at least for this week) and give me feedback on how you like reading Twitter. My Twitter homepage is here: http://twitter.com/jimstroud. And while you are at it, don’t forget to check out The Twitter Report for more useful info on Twitter.
If you are going to recruit using Social Media, I suggest that you add Twitter to your strategy. Why?
2 reasons:
Its popular and where people are, so are passive prospects.
See previous comment.
In case you are not aware of it, I Tweet. Maybe not as much as some, but I do my fair share. In case you are scratching your head as to what I mean, I am referring to Twitter. What is Twitter? I think Wikipedia describes it better than I ever could.
Twitter is a free social networking and micro-blogging service that allows users to send “updates” (or “tweets”; text-based posts, up to 140 characters long) to the Twitter web site, via the Twitter web site, short message service (SMS), instant messaging, or a third-party application such as Twitterrific or Facebook.
Updates are displayed on the user’s profile page and instantly delivered to other users who have signed up to receive them. The sender can restrict delivery to those in his or her circle of friends (delivery to everyone is the default). Users can receive updates via the Twitter website, instant messaging, SMS, RSS, email or through an application. For SMS, four gateway numbers are currently available: short codes for the United States, Canada, and India, as well as a United Kingdom number for international use. Several third parties offer posting and receiving updates via email.
Here is a great how-to video on Twitter as well. (I posted it on my blog before, but am doing so again now for convenience sake.)
I was a bit slow to Twitter initially, but soon began to love it. As my worklife and personal life began to compete with my blogging life, the idea of typing a few short thoughts became more and more appealing. So I began “following” others and quietly taking notes, while gradually building a Twitter strategy/theory of my own. Although Twitter is built around the idea of “What are you doing?” I want to try it a different way, at least for this week.
So, for the week of June 23, 2008, I plan on blogging exclusively on Twitter. Check out what is going on at my Twitter page located at: http://twitter.com/jimstroud You can also click the screenshot of my Twitter homepage below. As you may notice, I have my comic strip in the background. I might change that, just depends on the feedback I get and my mood this week. (And just as a FYI, you might want to subscribe to The Twitter Report for more tips and tricks on how to use Twitter.)
Depending on how things go with this experiment, I may also take a peek at some other microblogging sites aka “Twitter Clones.” I have been hearing a lot about these alternative sites to Twitter, especially since Twitter has been having growing pains with their servers buckling under the increased popularity. As I have experienced a couple of outages while defending Twitter, I have to say that alternatives have been on my mind a bit as well.
These are some of the other sites I have been kicking the tires on:
Pownce
I have not jumped head first yet into Pownce, but instead have been reading user comments about it. These are some of the comments that I have picked up on.
Looks slick and has some nice features like sending files and event announcements to all of your Pownce friends.
You can import your Twitter contacts to Pownce, but since its not all that popular yet (at least in comparison to Twitter), chances are not to many of your contacts will already be there. For that matter, the contacts importer seems to be on vacation as well. Not good.
I also heard that Pownce has been having major glitches with its system with nominal traffic. Not too encouraging for me as aggravated as I am with Twitter going down some times. (And I am not the only one. Click here to see a funny video about Twitter’s service going out.)
So, not only do they not have first mover advantage, their system is a bit “blinky.” I hear more complaints than praise about Pownce, but I am still considering giving them a shot by adding a profile there. Next up on my list is what I consider to be a contender for the Twitter throne, assuming that Twitter does not fix its systems fast and/or does something really, really stupid to really tick off its users. (I have no idea what that could be.)
Plurk
Plurk is the newest kid on the block and in comparison to Twitter, a prettier younger woman. I have actually received invites to join Plurk and I observe it to be the next new shiny object in the world of web 2.0. Plus, for all the hype and activity around Plurk, it manages to stay online. (Good for you Plurk!)
I like that Plurk scrolls horizontally and not vertically, just because its disruptive to do so. However, that move may come back to bit them in the hinee. For example, one reason Twitter is on top is because so many developers have made tools for it. If they develop stuff for Plurk with it scrolling horizontally, will they have to go out of their way to make their apps fit it? Could it work on an IM Client? A non-IPhone cell phone? I dunno, just posing the question.
That not withstanding, I LOVE the colors and the added features like Karma points that I assume will be redeemable for cash and prizes on some later date? I also like the way the Top Plurkers are displayed when you browse the members. There is also a mobile version to Plurk, but I have not tried it out yet, so nothing to say there. I have noticed that when I was on Firefox I had some issues seeing the timeline, but that might have been a momentary thing.
Jaiku is also a “me-too” site, but since Google recently bought it, I have to give it some attention. Jaiku has a lot of bells and whistles that Twitter does not, but I imagine will eventually integrate into its offering.
Jaiku comes with apps that let you add external sources of information into your stream like: weather, news, your favorite blogs and so on.
Jaiku also (and I like this) lets you set up groups of users around a common interest or around your choices. (For example, you could set up a group of family members, friends, clients, et cetera)
Jaiku also lets you see where in the world people are (if they have set that up in their preferences).
You need an invite to get in and at this writing, I do not have any. When I do, I will hollah out and let you know if you are curious about the service.
Honorable Mentions:
I don’t know anything about these microblogging sites, but they came up in my search so I thought I would mention them.
Okay, that’s it for now! Be sure to “Follow Me” on Twitter (at least for this week) and give me feedback on how you like reading Twitter. My Twitter homepage is here: http://twitter.com/jimstroud. And while you are at it, don’t forget to check out The Twitter Report for more useful info on Twitter.
Due to the proliferation of social networks, there has been a lot of talk about data portability lately. In a nutshell, data portability means that I could have one account for several online webservices. For example, if I was logged into my Facebook account and decided to hop over to MySpace, I would not have to log in all over again. If you have multiple accounts on multiple Social Networks and other sites, you immediately recognize how convenient this can be. Enter Google’s Friend Connect.
Google’s “Friend Connect” is a big deal, a very big deal. Friend Connect allows users to sign up for an account on one Social Network (Facebook for example) and use that same profile across multiple social networks, thus alleviating the need to create and manage multiple accounts. There was already a trend heading in this direction with social aggregator sites like Friend Feed, Profilactic and Spokeo enabling you to monitor your activity (and your friend’s activity) across multiple networks. Google has taken the trend to the next logical conclusion, one profile for multiple sites that may one day become a standard for all social networks to adhere to.
The idea is old, but the timing is perfect.
One would not a crystal ball to see this trend coming; seeds of this development have been around for sometime. In 2001, Microsoft introduced “Microsoft Passport” which morphed into “Windows Live ID.” Most of the websites that use Windows Live ID today are Microsoft subsidiaries like: Hotmail, MSNBC and Xbox Live. However, other companies affiliated with Microsoft are accessible via Windows Live ID for example: Expedia and Hoyts. (Read: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_Passport )
OpenID made its debut in 2005 and quickly developed into the original shared identity service allowing internet users to log on to different web sites using a single digital identity. It has gained a lot of traction over a relatively short period of time and is in use by such leading companies as AOL, BBC, Google, IBM, Microsoft, Yahoo, Verisign and others. For a deeper look into the history of OpenID, I suggest reading the Wikipedia entry on OpenID. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_id) While the concept itself is nothing new, the buzz around Google’s Friend Connect denotes a “perfect storm” for such an idea.
My Space is also allowing users to share their profile data across such networks as Yahoo, EBay and Twitter. (read: TechCrunch)
I speculate that Google’s Friend Connect and services like it will empower websites to grow traffic very, very rapidly. Once that happens, quality of content will become chief concern to website owners as a consistent audience is of more relevance to advertisers as (soon) anyone will be able to ramp up large numbers of registered users, but the overall majority will not be actively engaged enough to respond to the advertisers message. If you want to experiment in real time with (what I think) is soon to come, check out this VERY cool web application - Weblin.
Weblin is better than data portability, much, much better! Weblin turns any and every website into a virtual chat room akin to Second Life. (Okay, maybe not better than Data Portability, but just as exciting.)
And may I say, Weblin is just too cool for words?
These are some of the reasons why I like Weblin:
If I go to YouTube, I typically see 15-20 people hanging out there that I can chat with. If I go to Google, there are people there to hang out with as well. This tells me that no matter where I go, I have the chance of meeting people who share my interests by virtue of them being on the same websites that I frequent.
It is ridiculously easy to use! All one has to do is download the app and then surf the web as normal
Weblin offers a list of most popular websites that Weblins frequent according to TLD (top level domains). This is good for me if I want to target candidates in the UK for example, who have an interest in marketing blogs.
I can also dress up my avatar and make it really special (just like Second Life) and buy virtual goodies and so forth. Although I have done neither, I suspect that I will make that plunge; especially since Weblin is starting to grow in popularity. Check out this chart on their traffic from Compete.com. In comparison to sites like Cyworld.com and (the complicated?) SecondLife, they are nowhere near them in terms of traffic. However, the growth trend is looking promising and I pray will continue because I really dig this idea. Imagine if Weblin were to add Open ID or Friend Connect to their system as well. Oh, please, pretty please Weblin, make it so.
As I was playing with Weblin and chatting away with Otis Collier who was (of course) hip to Weblin as well, we began brainstorming ways to use Weblin as a recruiting tool. (Click here to check out his bio on the SourceCon Speakers page)These were some of our ideas.
Announce a Virtual Job Fair to select individuals.
Ask them to download Weblins and meet you at a special website for jobs targetting their skills. Or better yet, use “Weblin Lite” on the special website. (Weblin lite asks you to enter the URL of a page you’d like to visit. You are then redirected to a Weblin-enabled version of that site where you will have a randomly assigned avatar you can use to chat with. Read more about it here on Mashable.)
On the special website, users can watch videos, listen to podcasts and or read content specific to their skills and your company culture.
Of course, on the special website would be Recruiters and/or Hiring Managers to chat with. Should someone strike your fancy, you can invite them to a private chat and from there a phone interview and so on.
You have no doubt, heard about companies performing job fairs and interviews in Second Life, but Weblin may be a less complicated (and free) method of doing this. Weblin has a lot more functionality than what I have shown you so far, so be sure to check it out for yourself and (quite possibly) meet me on The Recruiters Lounge blog and chat with me? In the meantime, here is a video showing you a couple of the tricks you can do with Weblin. (You can find more Weblin tutorials by clicking here.)
P.S. If you want more insight into the world of Recruiting with Virtual Worlds, check out this new blog - Recruiting In Second Life which is written by David D’Angelo. David will be a guest blogger on this site soon, so stay tuned.
Infosourcer: @TalentSynch Thx!Bringing some Crater Lake Vodka from Bendistellery-he’s never tried it.Let me know about Recruiting Roadshow w/John Sumser
heathergardner: listening to the Recruiting Animal Show. Not sure about this episode, but I’ll hang on…rant should end soon & he’ll talk recruiting again
smheadhunter: @infosourcer - its for BlogWorldExpo -we’re pitching our recruiting experience as a draw for social media candidate to learn how to get jobs
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Karen is an experienced, successful recruiter who operates her own business and is actively involved in many industry organizations and activities. Her recruiting career began with Snelling Corporation. In 1998, after a successful tenure as a recruiter with Snelling, Karen struck out on her own, founding Advanced Career Solutions (ACS). ACS focuses on recruiting for the HVAC Industry. Karen has achieved accreditation as a California Accredited Consultant (CAC) through California Staffing Professionals. She has also gained her Certified Staffing Professional Certificate (CSP) through American Staffing Professionals. (www.americanstaffing.net)
Jim Stroud is a Searchologist with an expertise in the full life-cycle placement of Executive and Technical personnel, Recruitment Research and Competitive Intelligence. He has consulted for such companies as Google, Siemens, MCI and a host of start-up companies. He presently serves Microsoft as a Technical Sourcing Consultant and is a regular contributor to Microsoft’s Technical Careers Blog.
