Sourcing and Recruiting

"When I was researching my new book, Twitterville, I discovered six ways companies were using Twitter. Perhaps some of them can be adapted to your company and its needs." - Hendrik Neumann from Bookmarklet

"Blogger gelten gegenüber PR und Unternehmen eher als zugeknöpft. Eine weltweite Umfrage der Agentur Text100 wartet mit einer gegenteiligen Erkenntnis auf. Danach begrüßen 89 Prozent der Blogger in den USA, und 87 Prozent der Blogger in Europa Informationen aus Unternehmen und dem PR-Umfeld. In Deutschland sind es immerhin noch 73 Prozent." - Hendrik Neumann from Bookmarklet

"John Sumser's controversial post Digging Into RecruitingBlogs.com v2.08: The Death of Sourcing has has inspired a great debate about the state of our industry and the area of specialization we call "Sourcing." John suggests that "Former sourcing luminaries will be familiarizing themselves with the alarm on the French fry machine and the relative difference between Rare, Medium and Well done." Oh, dear." - Amitai Givertz from Bookmarklet

I originally came across this application looking for a way to organize and present org charts and was happy to find that that the (free) directory of shared org charts is in itself surprisingly extensive (though most are probably culled from Hoovers). Not sure who this is aimed at, but there's a call list feature. - joneilortiz from Bookmarklet

"Our job keyword engine contains over 30,000 job keywords that are relevant to passive and active job seekers looking for work in technology, entry level, executive, and accounting and finance jobs." - joneilortiz from Bookmarklet

"A better resume, online. Include video, pictures and a portfolio of your best work samples. Securely share different versions with employers, colleagues and friends, and control who sees what. And did we mention it's free?" -Sounds better than Emurse. - joneilortiz from Bookmarklet

"The study, titled “Will There Really Be a Labor Shortage?” and published in the August issue of Organizational Dynamics, notes that employers may well face difficult challenges in recruiting and hiring people in the future. But those challenges will stem from fundamental changes in the nature of the employer-employee relationship that contribute to the difficulty of retaining employees, not from a shortfall in the number of workers caused by demographic shifts." - joneilortiz from Bookmarklet

The so-called War for Talent has always struck me as a little disingenuous. With unemployment rising, and budgets shrinking, I'm interested to see how this myth will perpetuate into the future. - joneilortiz

"How many degrees apart are you from Companies?" - joneilortiz from Bookmarklet

"A company in beta that spiders phone trees at big companies and promises to make it easy for you to go straight to the spot you want. Then it calls you when the phone is answered and records the call so you can keep a record." (via Marketing Headhunter) - joneilortiz from Bookmarklet

Banners on the network are 125 x 125 and are only $20 CPM. - joneilortiz from Bookmarklet

WordPress theme designed to be a contact manager. - joneilortiz from Bookmarklet

"Dancing In Productions produced these machinima in collaboration with Draxtor Despres for Manpwer, Inc. to explore how the world of work was changing with the advent of virtual worlds like Second Life" - joneilortiz from Bookmarklet

"An individual breakdown of all 50 states is included below. A list of those state bar associations that restrict their online directory to members only (some of these states offer a search via a Find A Lawyer or Lawyer Referral page, these listings are usually optional but are at least worth a try), or do not have an online directory are individually listed. A list of those associations that allow searching by company/keyword is below as well." - joneilortiz from Bookmarklet

"Users can now access their Zotero collections from anywhere and synchronize them across multiple machines (of any operating system). Zotero is a free, easy-to-use Firefox extension to help users collect, manage, and cite research sources." - joneilortiz from Bookmarklet

1951: The Treasury Department rules that temporary staffing firms are employers of record; Snelling opens. - joneilortiz from Bookmarklet

""TMP already had the land, the designers and examples of buildings, and they helped us figure out what would play well with our building and layout. They really shaved time off and made it easy," Pearson says. EMC built on TMC's virtual land, which it rents for real dollars." - joneilortiz from Bookmarklet

Nice post. I'm also using Twitter for recruiting as well. - Geoff Peterson

"We'll be learning profiles, sourcing, searching, and how to market to and from your MySpace page." - joneilortiz from Bookmarklet