EXCELER8ion Blog Defrocked

A RECRUITOMATIC EXPOSE.

The new and exciting Amitai Givertz is blogswapping on The Recruiting Animal today and it looks like he's busy attacking old friends. Right on!

Julian and Shannon “Nearly-Gude,” who publish the glossy EXCELER8ion blog, should be ashamed of themselves. They have made quite a name as prototypical innovators for the online recruiting space publishing on leading industry properties here, there, and everywhere. But now – reluctantly and regrettably – their deception is exposed.

Not only is the recent EXCELER8ion post Blogs and Online Communities are the Next Job Boards hacked from Joel Cheesman’s Fast Company BlogJam post Job Search 2.0, but it was posted several days prior to publication of Cheesman’s original-original.

Preceding the industry luminary and then cleverly manipulating Heather Hamilton’s comments is hardly enough to fool the Recruitosphere into believing these works were not authored without borrowing heavily from “online recruitment’s most dangerous blog.” Does the EXCELER8ion crew really think we are that stupid? Tut-tut.

Posted by Recruitomatic as part of Recruiting.com’s BlogJam Blog Swap.

Comments

[tod hilton]

I realize I'm not the sharpest tool in the shed, but I fail to see how Shannon's post made 6 days before Joel's is borrowed? Unless this is some sort of literary technique that is just going over my head...

And honestly, the two posts are really discussing different aspects of the same topic. Shannon talks about the proliferation of jobs being posted on blogs now for targeted readers. Joel talks specifically about search engines specializing in job openings (like image searching). It's apples and oranges in the same crate, that's all.

[Canadian Headhunter]

There's been some pretty strong comment about the blogswap today. So let me say this about that. To me, Amitai Givertz is a gift to the recruiting world of the Tory satirists of the 18th century. He leaves a clue to his worldview in the allusion to Swift in the title of the next posting. This is something newish in our world of the Recruitosphere but not in the great beyond where he has indicated that his inspiration lies. So, yes he's a bit different but, I believe, intriguingly so. And if he wants to Amitaize the Recruiting Animal, he's welcome to do so anytime. (Jimmy-James Durbin prepared me for any and all jibes).

[Recruitomatic]

Hmmm. Jim Durbin has a post of his own today titled: Blog Aren't Always Serious...

http://www.stlrecruiting.com/2006/08/blog_arent_alwa.html