Recruiting Animal's Blog (3)

Miles Jennings from Talentbar says: 1. Linkedin, Facebook, mySpace, JigSaw, Zoominfo are making people easier to find. 2. That changes the recruiter's function from sourcing to selling candidates on jobs and assessing them for the client 3. To perform these tasks well, a recruiter has to understand the business she is working in better than ever before.… Continue

I'm a fan of the neo-necon. She's a psychotherapist who was raised as Democrat but swung to the centre-right. So, she's not voting for Obama. The other day, she analyzed his body posture. I initially said that her comments were the product of pure bias but she challenged my opinion so I had a second look and think that it might be of interest to us as recruiters.

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I used to think that Steve Rubel was a pretty smart guy but now it seems he's just another dude taking an easy ride on the Gen Y bandwagon. Steve says "the Attention Crash is entirely generational".

The Gen Yer's, it seems, do a far better job of coping with massive amounts of information. It's not uncommon for a lot of folks to be running Meebo with a dozen IM windows going at once, Facebooking, emailing and talking o

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