In keeping with Digital Recruiting's move towards Social Media (see Alex's CIPD post below). I thought I'd give people the opportunity to send me any questions they wanted to ask the panel during the discussion at the Onrec conference tomorrow. I'm chairing an illustrious panel featuring John Salt of Totaljobs, Adele Poole of HotLizard, Laura Stoker of Airs, Emma Mirrington of BskyB and Tony Roy of Careerbuilder. The topic is "How to minimise costs in recruitment during a downturn". If anyone who can't make it (or even those who can) want to suggest a question then either leave a comment or email me directly on matt.alder@barkers.co.uk. I'll blog the responses from the panel later in the week
Matt
Other than the panel and the winners of awards/sponsors (one and the same I think??) will anyone else be there? I s'pose the only way of getting some 'attendees' is to bore us on twitter; if it's working. (not sure if I'm allowed to make this comment about twitter reliability though?)
Enjoy.......
Posted by: Peter Gold | 02/06/2008 at 06:44 PM
with that number on the panel the only question I have is how anyone expects to get a word in edgewise? ;-)
Enjoy, Matt (or indeed - "enjoy Matt", whichever).
And hear your comment loud and clear Mr G. I think we've all picked up on that before. That's why the shortlists have traditionally been so, well, not particularly short. Classic table selling technique me thinks. Most amusing addition though.
:D
Posted by: Alex Hens | 02/06/2008 at 07:40 PM
@Peter - Sorry to bore you! I only kept retweeting the request as the stupid thing kept going down. I did actially got three or four good questions from it.
@Alex - They've actually added someone else to the panel since I wrote this! We'll be lucky to get beyond the introduction stage before running out of time!
Posted by: Matt | 03/06/2008 at 06:33 AM
Matt, my live Twitter was much better than yours. I somehow have another 5 people "following me" because of it.
Posted by: Jamie | 03/06/2008 at 07:09 PM
It was quite entertaining I look forward to more MyLongLunch updates in similar format!
Posted by: Matt | 04/06/2008 at 10:51 AM
It was stangly addictive.
Posted by: Jamie Leonard | 04/06/2008 at 01:22 PM
I'm thinking they didn't tune in for a spelling lesson Jamie ;-)
Can see the fun of micro-fame - and reckon your irreverent tone probably conveys well as a distraction Jamie.
Still no feedback on the CIPD awards twitter thread though (http://digitalrecruiting.typepad.co.uk/digital_recruiting/2008/05/using-twitter-t.html), so may be down to anyone on existing twitter accounts to decide if you can be arsed to twit about it on the night. :]
Posted by: Alex Hens | 05/06/2008 at 10:12 AM
Maybe the thought of live updates from the industries "premier awards" isn't exciting enough for people Alex. Lets face it, it's not the Oscars! ;-)
Don't worry though, I'm going and happy to be a twit (not for the first time) on the night if any does care.
Posted by: Matt | 05/06/2008 at 03:27 PM