The Recruiting Animal

How To Handle Criticism

Isn't the medium the message?

When I was rigorously meditating and studying Buddhism, I learned to dissociate people’s anger and vitriol from the message they were conveying.

This is one reason that many Buddhist masters come across as “cruel” to Westerners [but not Easterners]. They’re not trying to coddle your ego.... They’re encouraging you to drop your need to be comforted, loved, and cradled....

Someone whom you may instinctively deride as a tw*t could be teaching you an important lesson. So long as you’re obsessed with the HOW over the WHAT of their communication, that lesson will go unlearned.

None of which justifies being a di*k, of course. But when people ARE di*ks, it’s great advice to fall back on.

~ by The Zero Boss

Don't Waste Time Notifying Rejects

Says spunky recruiter.

Lesh works a lot of assignments and recruits a lot of people. Only one recruit per assignment gets the job. That leaves a lot of unhired recruits. Too many to call back with the results.

Lesh has been criticized for negligence but as long as his boss is happy, he don't care.

Guericke on The Animal Show

Jaxtr
- 100 free minutes per month
- callers don't see your number; they just press a button
- you can direct the incoming calls to your cell phone, work or home numbers
- you can set it to send all incoming calls to an online voice mail.
- you can block certain calls
- you can let specific callers or all callers get directly through to you
- you can put your jaxtr link into one of the web site links in your LinkedIn profile
- The Marketing Headhunter is putting Jaxtr.com into his email auto-responses
- The Recruiting Animal attests to the good quality of Jaxtr's sound

Personal Profile
Konstantin Guericke doesn't like to be called Tin. He doesn't know if Tin Tin's real name was Konstantin. He lives in California but doesn't know any movie stars or Governor Arnold Schwartzenegger. He doesn't attribute his success to his astrological sign. He believes that if you are persistent, you increase your opportunity to have luck on your side. He also believes that being nice to other people helps you be successful.

In terms of social networks, he favours a limited number of solid relationships over a large number of shallow contacts. He was part of a number of startups before LinkedIn. He tires of things that are well-established and likes to move into the unknown as long as it seems like a good bet.

Konstantin recommends this article for background on Jaxtr

Twitter Can Market Jobs

Turn your key candidate pool into Twitter Followers. Then tweet the entire group with alerts about jobs. All you need is a title, maybe a location and company and a tinyurl link to a full description online. Why not use email? Good question.

Source.

Animal Show Today At 1:30 EST

Konstantin Guericke co-founder of LinkedIn

Wed March 28, 1:30 EST
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The fourth Recruiting Animal Show features special guest Konnie Guericke. He's the co- founder of LinkedIn and now the CEO of JAXTR, a new free click to call service.

I thought it was only of interest to people on MySpace, but no, he says it's important to us. Impossible? I don't know. He is a visionary thought leader. So, listen in.

And, actually, click to call is really hot right now. The Google is into Click to Call, too

The New Jennifer Ringley

In the mid-90s, an art college student named Jennifer Ringley, put a webcam on her computer and let you watch her 24 hours a day.

It snapped a picture every three minutes. Occasionally, you could see her in bed with her boyfriend and sometimes you could see parts of her being towelled down after a shower. But mostly you just saw her sitting at her desk. Trust me, except as an idea, it wasn't very hot.

But JennyCam was big news. I remember seeing her on a major news network. But, now, Anthony J Meaney tells us Jenny's been out of the internet pioneer business for a long time. Of course, where there's a vacuum, something new comes in. But, could this be it?

Cheezhead, Cheezhead, show us your.... Noooooooo!

Hat Tip: JayDee Jason Davis, Recruiting.com

Cheesman On Recruiting.com

Godin says... "While multiple posts get you more traffic, they also make it easy to lose loyal readers... the problem is surplus.... writing too much, too often..."

I couldn’t agree more...

Recruiting.com is becoming overkill for me (I don’t speak for everyone, obviously), while I’d like more of ERE’s David Manaster.

So what’s the key to a blog built for longterm success?

Godin says, "Blogs with restraint, selectivity, cogency and brevity (okay, that’s a long way of saying ‘making every word count’) will use attention more efficiently and ought to win."

Notice "controversial" wasn’t mentioned? Here’s to everyone finding their own private "subtle and simple."

Note: Soon after this was posted, Recruiting.com was sold to one of the most outspoken, controversial, regularly posting CEO bloggers around, Don JGo Jason Goldberg of Jobster.com.

See also: Controversy Increases Traffic. And Whacky Experts Get More Attention

The Gen Y Hoax Part 1

Superior productivity of youngsters is bunk.

"Hey, everyone, I'm in Gen Y. I can email, IM, Twitter, listen to my iPod and work at the same time." Heard that recently? Well, you're going to keep hearing it, even though it isn't true.

Recent studies apparently prove that workers in their 20s using a variety of digital tools at the same time are not any better at multi-tasking than anyone else.

The human brain can't concentrate on two things at once. So multi-tasking slows you down and increases your mistakes. Also, any interruption encourages further distractions from the task at hand.

"In a recent study at Microsoft "workers took, on average, 15 minutes to return to serious mental tasks... after responding to incoming e-mail or instant messages. They strayed off to reply to other messages or browse news, sports or entertainment Web sites."

Source: New York Times

Recruiters Suffer From Overwork

Researchers studying multi-tasking studied the projects, e-mail, revenues, salaries and the use of IT by recruiters in an executive search firm.

The heaviest users of e-mail and the firm’s database completed the most projects. However, the researchers found that too much work led to declining project completion rates and revenue generation.

For the recruiters, the optimum workload was four to six projects, taking two to five months each.

Source: New York Times

Click-to-Call Buttons for Recruiters

Konstantin Guericke on The Recruiting Animal Show.

Wed March 28, 1:30 EST
Special Guest: Konstantin Guericke
www.recruitinganimalshow.com
Call in and talk: (646) 652-2754

Jaxtr is an online click-to-call service. You put a link on your site. A visitor clicks it to call you free of charge no matter where you are. Both parties use their own phones.

The CEO of Jaxtr is Linked-In co-founder, Konnie Guericke. I asked him to join The Recruiting Animal Show to discuss the automation of recruiting but he said no. He'll come but he only wants to talk about jaxtr.

"Konnie, " I said, "I'm sure that jaxtr is super-cool but, please forgive me, it doesn't have any relevance for recruiters. Free long distance, so what? Long distance is already cheap enough. We don't hesitate to use it on even the most casual calls.

"Animal," said Konnie. "You are great. And everyone knows it. But where on earth is your vision? You don't get it! So, I've got to come on the show and tell you."

"I don't get it?" I said. "Where is my vision? I'll have you know that I'm the guy who certifies vision. That's right. Pretty soon, you'll be able to come to The Recruiting Animal and apply for a VTL Certificate that will show everyone that you are a true Visionary-Thought-Leader. I mean, so many people are claiming to be visionaries that there has to be some kind of proof that they are the real thing. And who better to judge than me -- and $50 ?

In the end, I gave in to Konnie, He's on the show this week telling us about jaxtr. He even made me change the time to 1:30 EST to accomodate the West Coasters. (Let's see how many call in).

Practical Blogging has a good little intro to Jaxtr and a podcast interview with Konnie. Listen to it now and if you have any questions, call the show.

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