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May 2009 Blog Posts (39)

Animal's Radio Show Wednesday, April 27 - Mobile Recruiting

Michael Marlatt from here in the U.S. showed up (at the 80 minute marker) after the main show where Bill Boorman talked about Mobile Recruiting in the United Kingdom. Michael talked some more (adding to his prior show's appearance interview) on mobile recruiting and some of the differences in what was allowable here in the U.S. and abroad. Listen to the whole show here.

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Do any sourcers see… Continue

Added by Maureen Sharib on May 28, 2009 at 10:30am — No Comments

Why is the phone so important these days?

"I'm on notice that if I start competing with them over the Internet duplicating their candidate efforts coming up with the same people they'll have no need to work with me. I'm in a dark fox hole,on my own, and fighting for survival." ~ Bill, remark made over on Sourcers Unleashed (Yahoo group)

Bill also says he does "zero Internet Recruiting… Continue

Added by Maureen Sharib on May 28, 2009 at 10:30am — No Comments

LinkedIn - How many are paying to play?

Jay Montgomery, CEO & Owner at Light, Sight & Sound Interiors, Inc. since 1995, Lighting & Interior Designer, Systems Integration Expert just asked, Over on LinkedIn: Ok, so now that we all clearly see that LinkedIn is a viable resource and seems to work well, how many use a FREE account verses a PAY account?…

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Added by Maureen Sharib on May 28, 2009 at 8:08am — No Comments

"...how do you keep your troops motivated..."

Gregory A. Ketchum, Ph.D., CEO, TalentPlanet - Creator of Coach-on-Demand Series Podcasts®, Executive Coach, Team & Organization Development asked, over on LinkedIn: As a leader how do you keep your troops motivated when going through terrifically uncertain and challenging times like we're experiencing now when anyone could lose their job tomorrow or the company could fold or be sold?

Good answers… Continue

Added by Maureen Sharib on May 28, 2009 at 8:04am — No Comments

"I feel great about it." ~ Reece Nanfito, Director of E-Marketing at Novus International, Inc.

Deborah Kania, CEO of Direct Marketing, Internet Marketing & Ecommerce Consulting Firm, Author, Professor asks, over on LinkedIn how you feel about the fact that 70% of Facebook users are outside of the U.S. Some interesting answers… Continue

Added by Maureen Sharib on May 28, 2009 at 7:58am — No Comments

Typical total compensation and base salary for Supply Chain Director in the Bay Area

Amit Jain, Enterprenuerial product management executive and off-shoring expert asked, earnestly, over on LinkedIn: What is the typical total compensation and base salary for Supply Chain Director in the Bay Area?

Snippy answer from one web developer at Experian caught my eye because it contained some info that looked like it COULD/MIGHT be authentic: "BTW, there are about 500K illegal alien Indians in the Bay Area -- all… Continue

Added by Maureen Sharib on May 28, 2009 at 7:30am — No Comments

What are the fundamental differences in Indian and US recruitment?

Interesting LinkedIn question here that I'm surprised didn't grow more legs. Three interesting answers, nonetheless.

Speaking as someone who's been repeatedly recruited by both Indian and US recruitment, exclusively for US jobs and often in the Fortune… Continue

Added by Maureen Sharib on May 28, 2009 at 7:00am — No Comments

Do you think many people have left recruiting/sourcing?

I asked the following string over in my Yahoo groups yesterday:

Do you think many people have left recruiting/sourcing? If you had to put a percentage to it what would it be?

The responses have been lively - see them here and oh, by the way, what do you think?

(Scroll down once you're on the page to see the answers listed one after the other.… Continue

Added by Maureen Sharib on May 28, 2009 at 6:30am — No Comments

Review: New headsets let you shoot the breeze

Bluetooth wireless headsets have become a lot better in the last few years at picking out the user's voice from noisy surroundings. But a key problem has persisted: If you're in a breezy place, it's been hard to make yourself heard above the sound of the wind whistling over the microphone. The latest generation of high-end headsets, with prices ranging from $100 to $130, promise to do a better job at wind suppression. More… Continue

Added by Maureen Sharib on May 28, 2009 at 6:30am — 2 Comments

MagicMethod Phone Sourcing Classroom Chat Log Tuesday, May 26, 2009

Japan Names Sourcer: Hello Maureen 7:31 AM

Japan Names Sourcer: I am a research here in Tokyo and I've been reading some of your material - I think it's great that you provide a forum for people to get better at name sourcing. My question is: Have you called any companies that are trained to talk to headhunters and that you are unable to penetrate? 10:06 AM

MaureenSharib: Hello Anon 10:06 AM

Japan Names Sourcer: hello 10:06… Continue

Added by Maureen Sharib on May 26, 2009 at 1:30pm — No Comments

Google increasingly battles Facebook in search

TOKYO (AP) - Google has long been the king of search, dominating rivals including Yahoo Inc. (YHOO) and Microsoft Corp. (MSFT) But it increasingly sees social networks such as Facebook as challengers to its search engine, a company official said Monday.

As people search out advice online for everyday, personal decisions, the standard list of links served up by Google is not seen as intimate or trustworthy. For decisions such as choosing a… Continue

Added by Maureen Sharib on May 26, 2009 at 7:23am — No Comments

The Case for Working With Your Hands

IMPORTANT PIECE

High-school shop-class programs were widely dismantled in the 1990s as educators prepared students to become “knowledge workers.” The imperative of the last 20 years to round up every warm body and send it to college, then to the cubicle, was tied to a vision of the future in which we somehow take leave of material reality and glide about in a pure information economy. This has not come to pass. To begin with, such work often… Continue

Added by Maureen Sharib on May 24, 2009 at 6:30am — No Comments

Bleak Picture, Yes, but Help Is Still Wanted

Recent reports — unemployment at a 25-year high, hundreds of thousands of jobs lost every month — are enough to make many job seekers want to hide under the covers.

Consider that in March, nearly 700,000 jobs disappeared. But now consider this: At the end of March, there were 2.7 million job openings. What tends to get lost in the data picture is that just as some companies are laying off workers, other companies are hiring. In fact, the… Continue

Added by Maureen Sharib on May 24, 2009 at 6:30am — No Comments

Phone Interview Tips

Make certain you always have your resume, paper and pen within reach. Expect to get questions asking you to show you actually have the skills to accomplish the goals for the open position. Be prepared to give well-thought-out and concise examples of how you have performed in the past. More… Continue

Added by Maureen Sharib on May 22, 2009 at 9:28am — No Comments

"...there is nowhere worthwhile for you to go."

I was doing some reading and came across this - I thought it was a good lesson for us who are waiting this thing out...

When flowing water…meets with obstacles on its path, a blockage in its journey, it pauses. It increases in volume and strength, filling up in front of the obstacle and eventually spilling past it…. Do not turn and run, for there is nowhere worthwhile for you to go. Do not attempt to push ahead into the danger…emulate the… Continue

Added by Maureen Sharib on May 21, 2009 at 10:17am — No Comments

What's to be done to save the American middle class?

Fascinating question on LinkedIn from Robert Poulk, Operations Engineer:

According to a poll of undergraduates conducted in April, 1 in 5 college students have had a… Continue

Added by Maureen Sharib on May 21, 2009 at 8:00am — 2 Comments

Bob Hatcher asks: Is InfoUSA a scam?

Bob Hatcher asks, over on recruitingblogs: I am a recruiter that researches just about everything. I try to get a good value for what I am paying for. Recently, I researched several companies that sell contact information. The company that seemed to have the best deal was InfoUSA. They seemed amazing. They have a very user friendly website that helps you pinpoint the exact companies and information for your target market. I was thrilled with the… Continue

Added by Maureen Sharib on May 20, 2009 at 10:30am — No Comments

MagicMethod Phone Sourcing Classroom Chat Log Tuesday, May 19, 2009

MaureenSharib (guest) Today's MagicMethod class will be on Bruce Lee's philosophy that many martial art techniques are "complicated" - that the best approaches are "simple, direct and non-classical", reflecting the self. I happen to believe many of today's names sourcing methodologies are way more complicated than they need to be and we'll be talking about how and why knowing ourselves is so important in being a good names sourcer. Lee belived that...… Continue

Added by Maureen Sharib on May 20, 2009 at 8:30am — No Comments

I'm running late. Wait, my phone already told you.

How much longer will it be before one of the social networks picks up on this as a real-time tracker? Hmmm...seems Jeremy isn't spending his working hours at HP any longer - looks like he's at Oracle most days from 9-5...hmmm....

I'm running late. I'm stuck in traffic. I'm stopping by the market for a bottle of wine. I'm circling for a parking space. I'm just down the block. I'm right outside.

Today, people trade these… Continue

Added by Maureen Sharib on May 20, 2009 at 7:30am — No Comments

READ BEFORE CLASS

"The easy way is always the right way..."

My View on Gung Fu

By Bruce Lee

Some instructors of martial art favor forms, the more complex and fancy the better. Some, on the other hand, are obsessed with super mental power (like Captain Marvel or Superman). Still some favor deformed hands and legs, and devote their time to fighting bricks, stones, boards, etc.

To me, the extraordinary aspect of gung fu lies in its… Continue

Added by Maureen Sharib on May 19, 2009 at 7:30am — 1 Comment