David Bull Doza Mendoza is rebooting his Six Degrees Staffing Group on Linkedin.
Here's the link to join
Alternate
This is one group that has actually given me benefits on LinkedIn.
Here, also, is his group on Recruitingblogs.com
Here it is condensed to 8 minutes in length.
Recruiting Animal: Slouch how come you weren't a featured member? You used to run the Fordyce Letter site.
Slouch: Animal, you are not funny on your site and you are not funny here. While it is true I set this particular Ning site up I have done no work to make it like it is.
Recruiting Animal: You were snubbed JD, face it.
Elaine Rigoli: Saw your "done no work to make it like it is" comment - ouch! Hope we can share the road peacefully? I hope? Looking forward to learning, sharing, and networking in the future for all the best reasons.
Dave Manaster: I am not on the featured member list either.
Recruiting Animal: Yeah, but how come I wasn’t on the featured members list? Can someone explain that to ME!
Call me sexist but I love Dorothy Surrenders. She's funny, she's got
My Weekend Crush and Tank Top Tuesdays and she loves Amy, just like me.
JD: Animal, hey, how are you?
Animal: Fine, JD.
JD: I hear you wrote something funny.
Animal: What was that, JD?
JD: Don't bluff me, Animal. I know all about it.
Animal: About what, JD?
JD: I gave Bull Doza some shares in Rbc and you wrote something, didn't you?
Animal: I did, JD.
JD: I want to see it.
Animal: No, I'm not going to publish. I don't want to hurt anyone's feelings.
JD: Since when?
Animal: I'm not going to show you, JD.
JD: Well, what's it about?
Animal: A rumour.
JD: What rumour?
Animal: That Bull Doza owns Rbc.
JD: Are you kidding? That's crazy!
Animal: He brought in thousands of people. There must have been a reason.
JD: He's just a nice guy.
Animal: Yeah, right. He's a recruiter JD. I wouldn't have done it if there wasn't something big in it for me.
JD: Well, you're self-centred. I run Rbc!
Animal: I heard you're the front man. You know, like the greeter at a GAP store.
JD: I'm no greeter! I'm the brains!
Animal: JD, please. I'm no dummy.
JD: Who fed you this nonsense?
Animal: A little birdie.
JD: With an English accent?
Animal: Maybe.... JD. JD. Are you there, JD? (hangs up then dials the phone) Don JGo? Animal. Mission accomplished. Where's my money?
JGo: Listen, would you take shares in Baconsalt? They're going to be worth a fortune.
Animal: Like the shares in Jobster? Cashola, baby.
See also: JD-JGo Quarrel, Recruiting.com is sold, Recruitingbloggers, Bye Bye, Canadian Guy, The Contract, The Secret History.
Lance Haun, started HRMToday.com. TOPIC: Common HR issues NOT career issues. PARTICIPATION OPEN to HR pros.
Lance impressed me last week with the freewheeling power of his comments on JibberJobber.com. He has the angry passion necessary to make a blog interesting.
When I think about blogs I define them as non-corporate, non--managerial, ongoing communications. The voice of the free-wheelin' little guy, the heir of the fanzines.
But, I'm not as narrow-minded as that might sound. Three years ago, I was looking for a Director of Internal Communications for a large, international firm and I believed that a blog would have been a great way to let all of its 13,000 employees know what was going on.
I didn't expect the company blog to read like mine, but I didn't expect it to suck either, because a blog has to have some life to it or else it won't be read -- except by head and job hunters who are forced by necessity to snoop through masses of dull information.
So, I'm happy to report that (in my humble opinion) the Recruitosphere is still a living, breathing thing. And I've chosen to make this announcement today because I wanted to suck up to pay tribute to Papa John Sumser.
Why do I want to compliment John? Because, although his site doesn't look like a blog, he's a blogger in spirit and has been for a long time. And, the willingness of an industry fixture to indulge in bold, humourous criticism of the people and companies in his field reinforces the tone for everyone else.
Now, I didn't say Papa was always right. In fact, some people think he's a crank, inclined to act out his personal peeves in public. True or not, in blogging terms, that's a virtue. For, it's only those who are a little cranky who have a motive to shake things up. No one else wants to rock the boat.
So, let's say John is cranky; what could he be cranky about? Here's my guess. He uses the royal "we" but I think he's a militant populist.
I know he was open to regular conversations with Jay-Dee Jason Davis when the latter was a stranger and complete unknown. And Anthony and I were pleased to be noticed in his list of noteworthy bloggers in February 2005. Jay-Dee was there too but not the Microchicks. And why not? They were good bloggers but they worked for a big firm and my guess is that the honour was reserved for the little guys.
So why, then, did he go after JGo? Jobster was still new on the scene. But, maybe it seemed a little too cocky? It's possible, for a presumed arrogance was the red flag that led Papa to zing the Ma'am when she dismissed blog metrics with a wave of the hand.
But, Papa's not the only writer keeping it real, only the most prominent. Last week, Don JGo Jason Goldberg, king of Jobster, publicly taunted the boss of Indeed.com for not keeping his blog up to date. I liked it.
And, a couple of weeks ago I sent Louise Fletcher a blogswap posting which warned job hunters not to barf on their resumes. When I got a fast reply I thought she was sending it back but, no, she was thanking me for my delightful work.
And, of course, the Dog Lady knows how to take a joke. And, even the Ma'am -- who doesn't like to be mocked -- has it in her to write about peanut butter on a business site. She's not built for humour but she's not really strait-laced either. There's also Colin the Snob and the Marketing Headhunter; they're funny guys and there's more coming out of the woodwork all the time.
Amitai Givertz of Recruitomatic appeared out of nowhere, well-informed and with a pugnacious streak I can count on every day.
So, I'm just letting you know, Papa, that things are going well. Even as the virus spreads it hasn't lost its charm -- at least, not yet.
And, please, don't come after me for this critique of you. In writing this way, I'm only honouring you. (Amen.) And, finally, I'm not saying that the straight business writers are letting anyone down. Not at all. I'm only collecting examples of irreverent behaviour to indicate that the field as a whole has not yet been burdened by any staid, hidebound (life-threatening) protocols.
When Jim Stroud was a little boy he decided that he wanted to be a police detective.
Shaft was all the rage back then but Jim refused to be pidgeon-holed by narrow minds and, in the playground, he insisted that the other kids call him Dirty Jimmy after Dirty Harry Callaghan.
Jim never became a detective. He didn't want to deal with spineless politicians who were more interested in making the evening news than protecting their cities against deranged criminal minds. So he became an online sourcer which is a digital version of his childhood dream.
At the beginning of his career, he used to march around the office shouting, "Come on punk. Make my day. This is the most powerful search engine in the western world. You think you're going to get away from me? From ME !"
But, he changed as he got older and, now. I'd say he is more Shaft than Dirty Harry. Why, look at his motto, "Can you dig it?" You know what he's thinking:.
"Who's the "bad" online sourcer
That's a search machine for all the chicks?
Stroud. Can ya dig it?"
You bet I can. He's an innovative man whom no one understands but other bloggers. So I invited him to spend some time searching for a true blogger for our Post of the Week contest and, of course, he couldn't resist.
Jim is a Technical Sourcing Consultant for Microsoft but he's done everything in recruiting and worked with everyone too, including Google, Siemens, MCI and lots of start-ups. He's got a blog called Jim 2.0 and The Recruiters Lounge where he "gets diggy" wif famous recruiting personalities like..... like me, The Recruiting Animal, star of.....
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Here's Dirty Jimmy's bio on the Microsoft Jobs Blog.
A newish blog by a recruiting trainer.
If you listened to my show last week, you'll know that some women have started dreaming about me. Sue isn't one of them. But she did flatter me a bit in an email so I decided to mention her here.
Sue has a blog on ERE called Quest For The Best. (And leave the rest). Here is a review of her articles so far.
Driven to Distraction tells us how to deal with the offensive things candidates do and judging from the issues she covers (stains on their clothes, limp handshakes, stinky cologne or perfume, in need of a shave), it looks like she works with a real high class crowd.
Good Knight, Bad Knight is about great candidates with bad personalities. Should you cut them loose?
The Waiter Rule starts off with a very intriguing story about an interviewer who, counter-intuitively, focuses on the candidate's first crappy jobs. This isn't elaborated as much as I would like and the article goes into what I know as The Dirtbag Rule (How do interviewees treat your staff?).
In Employee Retention, Sue tells us how she's held on to hubby for 31 years and recommends the same for your office. (Yeah, it's really hot).
Star Attraction is a rah rah piece about blogging. She knew Jeff Bezos way back when.
Asking Questions claims that asking questions is the key to a good rebuttal.
Auld Lang Syne advises you to do as the Scots and hogemay your talent pipeline at New Years.
It's A Wonderful Life relates the Christmas movie to office management.
Liar, Liar is about resume padding.
Where do they hide? is about a fun variation of hide-and-seek called Sardines and recommends that you get candidates by contributing career information to trade organizations in your business niche (if you have one).
It's called Executive Talent Sourcing and has long comments by Krista Bradford and Crispy Critter, Gerry Crispin. And, in fact, it looks like Krista's "sexist married name" is Krista Crispin. Jer needs some comments from people who aren't Crispins so, feel free.
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