The Recruiting Animal Show: The Animal Panel

Intro: Introducing The Animal Panel
Genius Experts shoot the breeze about recruiting and the Recruitosphere.

Today's panel: Marketing Headhunter, Maureen Sharib, Nik Palmer, JD Jason Davis, Shannon Myers, Chris Russell

Topics: Dave Lefkow and baconsalt - The Future of Recruiting (social networks, Twitter, text messaging) - Trailer Park Recruiters - Recruiting sob story: does this recruiter deserve to get paid? -- Are passive candidates lousy interviews? - VoIP

Nik Palmer on The Value of Text Messaging.

Here's the deal with text messaging. You can get a message directly to somebody, they can read it, they can respond at their own time.

You don't need to hassle them on the phone and get that voice to voice connection. You don't need to worry whether or not they are actually going to call their voice mail and listen to it.

If I have a choice between leaving someome and sending them a text message I'm going to send a text message a hundred per cent of the time.

Source: The 36 minute point in The Recruiting Animal Show 07.10.10

How many of you are on LinkedIn?

Maureen Sharib: Someone spoke last night to 32 MBA students and asked them "How many of you use LinkedIn or know what it is?". Only five or six raised their hands

Harry Joiner: Really, that's surprising.

Maureen Sharib: When I go on site to do training in telephone names sourcing when I ask them how many of you know about LinkedIn a handful of people are on.

Harry Joiner: I love this business!

Maureen Sharib: And they're recruiters

Harry Joiner: What a great business! I mean, God, where ya been?

Animal: At one of the recruiting conferences, JGo asked his audience how many people read blogs. Four or five people put up their hands. Not many. And that's pretty interesting in terms of what Nik just said about the future of recruiting being online. It might take a while.

Harry Joiner: How many people subscribe to The Fordyce Letter? The Fordyce Letter is just an an unbelievable resource. I can't believe that anyone would be in this business, as tough it is, and not subscribe to The Fordyce Letter. Likewise, I can't believe that recruiters don't know about LinkedIn. That just seems crazy to me.

Animal: These are corporate recruiters Maureen is talking about.

Maureen Sharib: Not necessarily.

Source: 52 minute point, Recruiting Animal Show, 07.10.10 Commentary here.