Recruiting Animal

Women Recruiting Bloggers

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Hi everybody. Recruiting Animal here on June 11, 2008.

Today, I want to talk about women. About women being better recruiting bloggers than men.

You know, friends, I'm not like other people. I don't go around bragging that I'm a thought leader. You won't find the word visionary in my linkedin profile.

But sometimes I know what's right and, finally, I see that someone is taking my advice.

Back on Feb 14, 2007, I said, in print, that companies should hire sweet pretty girls straight out of journalism school and let them run the recruiting blogs.

They'd probably write well and they would totally hypnotize the guys they want to recruit.

Chris Russell

Job Board Owner, Blogger, Job Hunting Radio

Animal Show - Wed May 26- NOON ET

Chris on Linkedin    Call: 646-652-2754

He's been a recruiting blogger, a job hunting blogger, job hunting and recruiting podcaster and videographer, a job board owner and the creator of an online job board network.

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Bad Newspaper Writing

It's a holiday weekend in Toronto and it looks like this journalist and his editor are relaxing a little too much.

In Grade 8, our teacher taught us the term "run-on sentence" and this one, by Greg Quill at The Toronto Star, seems to qualify. The topic is Al Jazeera TV.

But the business news lede is not the relative value of the American dollar or the state of the first-world’s economies, and its celebrity interview subjects, conducted by dizzyingly busy news mediator and chat show host Riz Khan, one of Al Jazeera’s key operatives, are more along the lines of Indian poet and lyricist Javed Akhtar, veteran Cuban jazz singer Omara Portuondo and, yes, Canadian novelist Margaret Atwood, than with the stars of the latest Hollywood blockbusters or American pop music chart toppers.

Also, "dizzyingly" is not a word. Try to say it. It's ridiculous.

Critiquing People Online

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Hi everybody. Recruiting Animal here on May 19, 2010.

Back in, oh, I guess April 2008, I was having lunch with a very prominent Recruiting and HR blogger when he said to me: Animal, I am trying to shape a culture.

At first, I was taken aback by the boldness of this statement. But then I said to myself: You know what? In my own little way, I'm doing that too.

I'm not trying to shape a whole culture. I'm not that bold. I'm just trying to shape one little corner of it. And that corner is the Twitter bio.

And this week, a guy named Jason Seiden gave me some feedback on that project. He told me that he doesn't like the way I handle it.

Jennifer McClure, Recruiter

Animal Show - Wed May 19- NOON ET

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Tom Gugger, Recruiter

Animal Show - Wed May 12 - NOON ET

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Tom is the no-nonsense pal and and professional associate of The People's Coach, Jerry Albright.

Out of all the people I've met in my 20+ years of recruiting I can't think of anyone who delivers more and more often. That's a fact.

I am a richer man because of Tom Gugger. And I don't want other people grabbing onto him. He's mine.

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How Search Engines Screw Up Your Name

When an employer finds your resume interesting she is likely to check you out online before calling you in for a meeting. The question then is: will she find you?

When searching for individuals, search engines have 3 problems:
1. Name expansion
2. Mistaken identity
3. Spelling errors.

A search engine uses an expansion dictionary to find variations of each word in your search and return a name that it thinks you meant.

For instance, Carl Mark is a founding partner at Jones Soda but when you search him on Google, the first return is Karl Marx.

Everyone knows that Karl Marx is not Carl Mark but when the difference is less obvious, the confusion can have serious results. (They might think someone else is you).

A contributing factor can be a name that is easy to misspell. It might be weird (for Anglophones) or simply confusing (Johnston vs Johnson).

A solution? Vizibility lets you do the search correctly and put a link to it in your resume.

NOTE: This article is an abbreviated version of an original on Career Rocketeer by James Alexander, the Founder-CEO of Vizibility.

Dave Houle on Generation Y

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Hi everybody. Recruiting Animal here on May 5, 2010.

And today I've got a confession to make. I'm going to tell you who I love. I love Gen Y experts. And you know why? Because criticizing them is like shooting fish in a barrel.

I just read an article in O Magazine by David Houle. Dave Houle is a professional futurist and he says that one of the distinguishing features of the millenial generation is that they are technologically savvy.

But what evidence does he offer? He tells a story. A CEO told him that he had to migrate his company from one software platform to another. His IT Manager said it would take 2 weeks and $60,000. So how did he solve the problem? He told Dave:

Dave Graziano, Recruiter

Animal Show - Wed May 05 - NOON ET

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