Praises Jay-Dee then slams Recruiting.com.
[I look at Recruiting.com and] what I see is a great group of excellent bloggers who are creative and interesting but I'm not sure of what that does to help the average recruiter out there to be more successful.... Kudos to Jason Davis has been a true driving force!
I guess Craig thinks that if he shuffles the cards fast enough between praise and blame, you'll feel like a million bucks even after he tells you you've failed.
In 2005, Craig included a link to Recruiting.com in some of his mailers. We would get a bunch of hits the next day which disappeared the day after that. We didn't seem to have what his readers wanted. But that doesn't mean recruiting blogs are suffering from a lack of good information.
We've had this argument about relevance before with Karen Mattonen in Silverman's role. She didn't like nicknames and her thirst for knowledge, she claimed, wasn't satisfied by the blogs.
I pointed out then that this was a really bogus claim. And I'll do it again.
If you want to become a telephone sourcer read Maureen Sharib. Online sourcing? Shally, Gutmacher and Stroud.
If you want to learn how to create a modern career site, read Shannon Seery, Peter Gold or Gutmacher again.
Want to learn how to increase your network? Mendoza will tell you. For free. Interested in the latest online recruiting software? That's Jay-Dee's specialty. A quick pointer to career issues, super recruiter, Anthony J Meaney is your man.
How to handle offers? Hiring Revolution used to write about it every week.
Want me to go on? I can. The problem is, perhaps, that many people are not used to accessing their information in an ongoing blog-style way.
I love Craig. Yes, I love Craig. He is a such fantastic recruiter and recruiting trainer. Jay-Dee Jason Davis told me so a thousand times. We didn't derive any benefit from his newsletter -- none at all -- but that does't mean it's trash. Nor does his readers inability to track value on recruiting blogs indicate that there is nothing there.
For instance, Papa John Sumser said that blogs are great because of their ability to rapidly call the experts out. And he was right.
