The Recruiting Animal

Minnie Driver Sings

Who knew? Invisible Girl. Hat Tip: Ghost of a Flea On Ellen. (She seems to get better looking as she gets older. BS cover (listenable but not great)

Gwyneth Paltrow Sings

Cruisin' with Huey Lewis. I was amazed by this when I saw the movie. Thought she was suprisingly good.

I've never seen this before. I must have come in late: Bette Davis Eyes.

Just My Imagination

See also: Metacafe

Amy's Back

Valerie.
Interview.
Valerie again.
Valerie again.

Shally Elvis Steckerl on xtremerecruiting

Recruiters who want to be on the edge waste a lot of time working with tools that are going to be the real deal in the future.

Every year there is a hot new technology that promises to deliver passive candidates to your doorstep.

Monster is a proven resource. Linkedin makes people tons of money. But most recruiters don't know how to use any kind of database search engine well.

Shally doesn't recommend long search strings. He recommends a search that takes ten minutes or less.

Shally claims no contact manager is robust enough to handle the hundreds of thousands of contacts recruiters must have to do their jobs well.

Source: xtremerecruiting.tv

Great Recruiter Interview

Dave Staats on xtremerecruiting.tv

Here are a few of the ideas presented:

He sounds a bit like a low key Bill Cosby, slightly slurring his words. He was taught to build relationships and after 22 years in business still has relationships with with people he met in the first two years.

He has two specialty areas and finds that recruiting helps him live in a happy world. The candidate and company are happy and he never has to talk to the company he recruits people from. (What about the candidates he rejects?)

Believes that if he focuses on a narrow niche he shouldnt have to go to far to find the right guy. He doesn't even want to have to call a hundred people. "Why dig a new hole if you've already got the tree planted and there is fruit on it."

Linkedin is good. Facebook and Myspace are useless because his candidates aren't there. Likes Deskflow as an ATS.

He has a simple mission and tells the same story to everyone he meets: He sells access to people they can't get
He doesn't negotiate fees. Charges the same to everyone and passes up those who won't pay it.

Find four or five things that make a big difference and do them every day.
Don't be afraid to ask tough questions right at the start of a relationship.

Inside Recruiting at ERE

Did you know that Joel and Penelope shop for panties together at Victoria's Secret? Or that a woman can be more vulgar onstage than a man? That's a surprise, isn't it? But this little video, shot in a hotel hallway, contains a lot of "raw" secrets from ERE.

Shally Interviews Jay Dee

To be honest, I prefer to see Jay Dee interviewed on video the morning after he's been up all night drinking and playing cards, but, again, in truth, this one is very informative.

Music Videos

Oh My God
Valerie
You Know I'm No Good
Things Have Changed
Dancing in the Dark
Walking Down Madison New England
Ready Teddy
Different Drum
Candy's Room
You're No Good
You're No Good (again)
Love Hurts
Beat It
Cruisin'

John Lennon on Dick Cavett

Here. Notes. Yoko is a rocker.

Good Beatles Interview 1966

I don't usually enjoy interviews with celebrities or musicians but The Beatles last interview on YouTube is pretty good.