Recruiting Animal

Recruiting 101

Dennis Smith has fun links to Jay-Dee's old Recruiting 101. Scotty Love is mentioned there in 2003. You'll also see ERE in 1999.

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Selling Your Personality

The Lessons of David Axelrod

Axelrod met Obama when the senator was 30 years old...

In the 15 years since, Axelrod has worked through Obama’s life story again and again, scouring it for usable political material

- David Axelrod is Obama's campaign manager

- he wants to portray the candidate as having a leader's personality
- so his campaigns don't focus on issues but on the candidate’s life

- a job hunter can do the same in an interview
- she should have clear ideas about how her job is done

- but she can also tell a story about her life and focus on moments
  in her history that define her as the person she wants to be

- while the image you project may be edited, to be convincing
  it has to be based in reality

Predicting Performance From Personality

- Paul Wolfowitz doesn't seem like a zealot
- he is patient, logical, respectful and soft-spoken
- but he has a missionary's optimism about America's ability to build a better world

- has an activist bent
- he sees trouble coming before others do
- doesn't want to stand by while bad things happen
- and thinks about the cost of not acting

- for Colin Powell Vietnam is the prime example of good intentions gone wrong
- Wolfowitz was sympathetic to the war
- later he accepted that it was a case of overreaching

- Wolfy was an architect of the Iraq War.
- could we predict from his activist orientation and optimistic perspective the likelihood of over-reaching?

Reference: New York Times.

People Can Surprise You

Source: Wall Street Journal. (edited)

Harry Truman was a small town man whose career had been sponsored by a corrupt political boss.

Then he was carelessly elevated to a senior role by Frank Roosevelt. And, yet as the sponsor of the Marshall Plan and the policy of containment, he did done great things.

Peggy Noonan concludes that:

People can come from nowhere, with modest backgrounds and short résumés, and yet be individuals of real gifts.... that are suddenly revealed.

You have to give people time to show what they have. Because maybe they have magic too.

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Lifehacker.

Immigrants Don't Like Stress on Job Skills

TheStar.com warns that:

1. Immigrants with skills do not get a chance to use them in Canada.

2. So the government's increased preference for immigrants with job skills discriminates against the unskilled people the country actually needs.

When Chakraborti joined her husband, Sailen, in Canada, it took her just two months to parlay a master's degree in philosophy into a job as a bank teller.

"Many immigrant communities are already being discriminated left, right and centre..."

His parents have a university education and worked for Ontario Hydro as clerks...

Free Online ATS

SmartRecruiters.com is a free, online applicant tracking system.

Key Points: Launches Oct 28, 2008. Set up in 2 minutes. Easy to use. Personalize your own Career Site. Includes a "vibrant" recruiter community. Includes "integrated pay-per-use recruiting services" (sounds like they will do your recruiting for you).

Send Out Cards.com

Matt Mancino, a construction industry recruiter in Phoenix called to tell me about Send Out Cards.com.

You can create your own thank you or greeting cards online - in your own handwriting, if you choose -- and they print them and snail mail them for you.

Because everything is electronic today, these snail mailed cards stand out and differentiate you from the pack.

Leaders Are Flexible

Reference: George Jonas.

It’s definitely not for nothing that Obama -- who, in theory, stands against everything Powell has stood for, from party affiliation to policy -- responded to the endorsement of Bush’s former secretary of state by saying that he was feeling honoured and humbled.

Presidential? Pragmatic? Practical? Unprincipled?

All of the above, I’d say. The first adjective sounds like a compliment; the last one certainly doesn’t. Yet they’re not incompatible and may even be complementary.