More Fun With Stalking/Sourcing on Twitter.
Posted on February 13, 2014 5 Comments
I’ve already written a post about how to stalk someone via Twitter for sourcing and recruiting, but I thought that it might be interesting to try showing an example of how job seekers might be able to apply this trick to proactively engaging with recruiters. Recruiters talk a lot about ‘candidate experience,’ but here’s a chance to actually get feedback (or at least get noticed) if you’re a job seeker. This is a real life example, so my apologies to my target, but again, all information here is publicly available.
The Gospel of Social Recruiting
Posted on February 12, 2014 8 Comments
I’m no theologian – my apologetics tend to be limited to defending snarky blog comments – but one thing that’s always struck me as kind of odd is the striking semblance that social has kind of always had to spirituality.
I’m not talking about those who would, like the Pharisees, display their faith by live tweeting televangelists (and based on Joel Osteen’s hash tag, this actually exists). The whole dialogue around social media in general, social media for recruiting in particular, has always had the same characteristics as a religion.
A Questionable Post: Interviewing’s Greatest Weakness
Posted on February 3, 2014 1 Comment
If you want interviewing advice, there’s literally millions of options out there, and more or less, most of them say exactly the same thing. “Research the company, prepare questions to ask, show up 10 minutes early, make eye contact,” the sort of thing that seems pretty obvious to any candidate who makes it through even a perfunctory screening process.
The thing that none of these posts tell you, however, is the fact that if you prepare for and approach an interview by more or less doing the same stuff as everyone else, you’re not doing yourself any favors.
Influenca: Ignoring The Influence Industry
Posted on January 31, 2014 Leave a Comment
Once Upon A Time: A Post in 3 Acts
Posted on January 24, 2014 Leave a Comment
FADE IN:
Act I: Set-Up
The shaman figures prominently in many Precolumbian and aboriginal cultures, and for millennia they acted as stewards of an oral legacy stretching back to time immemorial. Around dancing fires, the people huddled and listened as the Shaman cast his spell; but his sorcery was not supernatural – it was story telling. Without stories, there is no past, and without a past, there can be no identity, no destiny, only the perpetual present, stuck spinning forever.
Snark Attack 