Entries from May 2006
I have begun playing with a couple of new tools that I thought I would share with you. Firstly Google Notebook is a new tool in Beta (surprised?) that Google released last week. The notebook installs itself as a Toolbar but displays itself in the right hand corner of the Status bar, the bottom of you browser [...]
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While I was away another 11 sites registered themselves in community.hrblogs.org, taking the total number of sites to over 360.
Also a few of you mentioned the site, thanks. It seems this was all started by Diane Pfadenhauer from the Strategic HR Lawyer. Thanks Diane.
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It has been a couple of very busy days since I last posted, here is a brief update.
On Wednesday I started my new job at Nortel, and my feet have not really touched the group. The thing about going back to a place you use to work at is many of the traditional “first week” [...]
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CM Russell from AllCountyJobs.com tried a little experiment on the quality of candidates returned by Craigslist.
He got 6 candidates from Craigslist, 1 from Califorina, 4 from Russia and 1 from Ireland. From the other board 3 fully qualified candidates.
He hired one from the job board!
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Bosses consider blog ban. 03/05/2006. ABC News Online
One fo the first mainstream articles I have seen in Australia on blogging policies. HR professionals take note!
(tags: blogging legislation australia HRM policy)
LeeAnn Prescott - Hitwise US: Simply Hired, Indeed and Jobster Compete for Market Share
Hitwise’s Lee Ann Prescott provides an interesting comparison US internet traffic for [...]
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Late last year Eric Schmidt and Hal Varian published in Newsweek 10 Golden Rules that Google has implemented to help effectively manage knowledge workers.
Hire by committee
Cater to their every need
Pack them in
Make coordination easy
Eat your own dog food
Encourage creativity
Strive to reach consensus
Don’t be evil
Data drive decisions
Communicate effectively
As they mention in the article non of these [...]
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I have been playing with a couple of new features on my blog before looking to add them to selected themes on hrblogs.org.
In no particular order
A list of the last 10 posts on the side bar
A list of 5 related posts on each post
Using Notable, you now have the ability to submit the post the [...]
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A couple of weeks ago there was a big discussion on link-swapping over at Recruiting.com that caused all manner of conversations to break out. I also got into the conversation by letting everyone know about communiy.hrblogs.org an aggregation come directory of HR blogs that I have found or been submitted.
The communities resident SEO expert, [...]
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Want a job in the secret service
ASIO is using Google to help them recruit, type in “Australian Security Intelligence Organisation” and you get sent to their recruitment page.
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MyLinkWiki for LinkedIn
A wiki to help you get the most out of LinkedIn
(tags: recruitment search wiki people)
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(Thanks to Dave Lefkow for the pointer)
Seth Godin provides Todd Raphael, editor in chief of ERE, with an interview on recruitment and the intersection with marketing.
The quote I really like from the interview:-
Employee satisfaction is entirely related to the respect and autonomy employees are given. Over and over again, it has been found that you [...]
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