Digital Recruiting

Peace and goodwill to all, oh and please vote for us!

Well I was going to finish the year with a rant but decided that I'd postpone that until January and instead get with the general mood of mutual love, respect and sharing....even though it's doing nothing for our traffic figures (lets get back to arguing ASAP in 2008!).

I'm off for a couple of weeks now so just wanted to wish everyone a Happy Christmas and thank absolutely all of you who have written for, commented on, talked about or read Digital Recruiting in 2007.

Just before I go though the ever lovely Louise has asked me to mention the Best Recruitment Blog of 2007 award she has organised. You can read more about it here. To make it as easy as possible for you when you vote for us here is a link to the X factor style voting page ;-)

See you all in 2008!

Matt

Collaboration, Innovation and People

I finished my last new business pitch of the year this morning and I can now allow myself to wind down a little and reflect on the past year. Yay!

What a year its been! so much has happened that I can't sum it up in one post so I wont try, but overall its been great.

I will instead blog about my morning.

When I was getting ready this morning I was, as usual, listening to Terry Wogan on the radio when the news came on. One of the stories summed up a key theme that has permeated 2007 and will continue to be a real influencing factor on the business, social and political world in 2008 and beyond.

It centred around the development of medicine for Aids sufferers. In the past, patients would have had to take around 30 different tablets a day, often on an empty stomach. Today they can instead take one tablet to treat their symptoms. This is quite an amazing transformation, but how has this vastly improved scenario come into play?

- well, three of the major pharmaceutical companies who are major competitors collaborated to make this a reality. The sharing of intellectual capital and resources for a greater good...fantastic.

Collaboration between companies, people and organisations is transforming the social and business world we now operate in. This goes back to my earlier post in May when I got excited to hear about Proctor and Gamble operating an open source policy, something more and more companies and organisations are doing to great effect.

What has enabled this age of collaboration? - The Internet.

The company we pitched for this morning is the world's largest steel company and through research over the last couple of months it been really interesting to note that three of the most important factors affecting businesses, certainly according to Global CEO surveys are Collaboration, Innovation and People.

In a knowledge economy, collaboration, innovation and great people are critical to business success. Its clear that in 2008 things are going to get even more interesting for us all

To my fellow bloggers, its been a real highlight to work and get to know you all in 2007 and thanks everyone for contributing to the discussion. Look forward to chewing the fat in 2008.

Have a lovely Christmas and New Year everyone.

p.s. thanks Matt for getting the whole blogging thing started.

JobsGoPublic giving to the Bangladesh Relief Appeal, Whitehurst / TMP love-in: it must be Christmas

For those of you who haven't picked up on it yet, JGP have launched a blog - CTO Eben has recently posted an interesting piece on job board security. You'll also see there that JobsGoPublic is donating £10 to the Bangladesh Relief Appeal for every job posted on the site throughout December and January. Good on them, and a great excuse for using the site if you've never used it before. Full details here.

What with this commendable gesture, and a general feeling of "industry togetherness" that I have not experienced before, there is definitely something in the air. Certainly everyone I've spoken to in the online recruitment space is looking to 2008 with great enthusiasm - and with good reason.  Working with both consumer and recruitment brands, I have to say that recruitment could really lead the charge in terms of  the effective use and monetization of the new digital channels of engagement. (Having said that, helping launch a designer perfume for dogs was hard to beat in terms for viral pass-on-ability... ;-)

I am hoping to shatter the Christmas spell when talking at the Enhance Year Ahead conference on 1st Feb. The subject will be Employer Brands & Conversations, and I fully intend to pick out some of the crowd for embarrassing-Facebook-profile-related-tomfoolery, so if you're coming make sure you change your privacy settings now...

Hope you all have great Christmas

Paul, Carve Consulting

Death of the mouse

I’m currently trying to finish writing a controversial post to end the year on but December is proving to be madly busy work wise! In the meantime though I just wanted to mention the Chinwag Event I attended last week. Very well run and some interesting thoughts on where the digital industry might be in 5 years time.

One of the thoughts that came up was the changing nature of the human interface with technology and the “death of the mouse”. It was mooted by someone that perhaps the key development in this area had already happened in the form of the Wii. Either way I reckon I could probably do with getting one of these for Xmas!

La la la ... happy i did not go to small circle

I am a very happy man today.

Firstly, because of last Wednesday, I was sitting at home feeling sorry for myself and fellow bloggers were out having a party. It is not that which made me happy but the fact Tim, Dom, Michelle and the guys from JGP came out.

I had already made up with Dave from TMP … but it also made me reflect on Tim (NORAS has had a lot of stick at times) and the wholes idea of this blog … to talk, discuss and rant (I think I do that a lot).

But having Tim out for beers with us and Al quoting us is what I have always wanted.

No bad intentions are there. This is to create an open forum for the industry that has never really been around before … talking is what makes the difference. Just look at the RADS this year.

So talk, discuss and remember we are open.

Build on what we have.

Keep the faith …

John

Everyone is welcome … here is to a great 2008

Forever Blowing Bubbles

Thanks to Alastair for name checking us in his interview on Louise's Blog the other day. Never being one to disappoint I therefore thought it was time for another vaguely business related amusing You Tube video. This one really made me laugh!