Re: Gen Y — ‘The Kids Are Alright’

Thanks to Shannon Seery Gude for twittering about a great read on Gen Y (aka “Millenials” or “iGen”) being really just the same as all other generations.
Stephen Lynch writing at the NY Post got fed up with everyone complaining about the entitlement and know-it-all-ness of the globe’s next generation of leaders, movers and shakers, and [...]

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Monday Munchies — Dec 10, 2007

Monday Munchies — Five interesting reads gleaned from the web last week:

Recruiting Cheat Sheet
Your Corporate Website is Boring Applicants
25% of all Canadians are on Facebook
Get more done by turning your daily work into ‘Crankable Widgets’
How Gen X-ers and Millenials perform Job Searches — Interesting Differences!

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Calendar: Personal Branding Summit - Free Nov. 8 2007

Got a phone?
Get registered for an incredible Personal Branding teleconference happening Thursday (two days from when I am writing this) and includes an incredible lineup of speakers from all over the world.
This conference is FREE, but you must register, and then get on the phone during the section you want to learn.
From the website:
To [...]

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LinkedIN: ‘I’m Gonna Have to Block You’

Asking people to join your network may be hazardous to your (network’s) health.
Recently, LinkedIn, the granddaddy of all business social networkins sites, added some good features, trying to help people get and keep connected.  I am strongly in favor of LinkedIn, and I am glad they made some changes to keep up with the pack… [...]

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What Must I Change?

This is an intentionally OPEN question, and I am seeking brutally-honest feedback.
I am reading Ram Charan’s Know-How: The 8 Skills That Separate People Who Perform from Those Who Don’t, and I admit it’s got me thinking.
 … really thinking.
Just getting into it now, but I am deeply curious about exactly what’s going on out there in [...]

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Oops. We don’t know you as well as we wish we did

Hm.
Part of me wants to laugh, another wants to cry. Google’s recruiting department is in the middle of a bloggosphere mud-slinging fest thanks to some less-than particular attention they paid to Amazon’s Web Services Evangelist, Jeff Barr.
Today, he notes how the company seeking to organize the worlds information is actually a little disorganized in [...]

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If Colleges Blog To Recruit, Why Don’t You?

I don’t think Steven Rothburg is bitter:
Virtually all employment-related blogging is coming out of the offices of job boards and third party recruiters. With very few exceptions, virtually no corporate recruiters are blogging. That’s a real shame as those same corporations are crying the blues about how hard it is to recruit the best Gen [...]

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Dot Com Hiring Frenzy Back?

Thanks to CM Russell of RecruitingFly for pointing me to this USA Today article about the dot com recruiting craziness:
“I remember the ’90s hiring boom, and I thought that was the peak. I would say this time hiring is even more aggressive,” says Barbara Massa, recruiting services director at EMC, an information management and storage [...]

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Technical Recruiting Dictionary

I’m always explaining the nomenclature of technical recruiting. It’s not necessarily a well-formed language, but it does have various constructs that are helpful to understand.
To make it a little simpler, I’ve gathered some definitions and placed them in a group here on the website called Glossary of Recruiting Terms.
Current definitions I have made [...]

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SOS Technical: Local Utah Recruiting Strength

Of course, with what I do, my employer often comes up in my blog. We recently published a new flier that explains some of the reasons why I feel we do so well against our competition here in Utah. Here’s some of that information, or you can download the flier yourself.
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