Digital Recruiting

The end of an era?

The Conference Season

  

We don’t tend to plug many conferences on Digital Recruiting but I couldn't let the opportunity to mention mine and Paul Harrison’s double header and double bill coming up over the summer pass by.

As well as both speaking at the Onrec conference next month (Paul is talking social media and I’m chairing the panel debate) we are also both doing a turn at the UK’s first, Social Media Recruitment conference in July.

Paul will be regaling the audience with his thoughts on how to put a corporate social media strategy together and I’ll be getting my crystal ball out to predict how social media will evolve in the future.

Rumours that we’re both in the running for the most overexposed digital recruitment professional of 2009 award are of course completely unfounded ;-)

Matt

UK Recruitment Tweetup - latest news

There have been some very welcome developments with the UK Recruitment Tweetup over the weekend and we now have some extra capacity. You can read more here or go and register here if you haven't already

Matt

UK Recruitment Tweetup - some more news

A quick follow up to the last post to announce that Twitter Job Search will be sponsoring the UK Recruitment Tweetup on 1st April. You can find more details on my Recruitment Futurology blog or just go straight to the sign up page if you want to attend

UK Recruitment Tweetup

Just a quick post to let everyone know that registrations are now open for the UK's very first Recruitment Tweetup.

 You can read more about the event here or you can just go and sign up straight away here.

The only rules are that you must be a Twitter user and connected in some way with the recruitment or HR industry

The Tweetup is going to be held at an undisclosed Farringdon bar in association with MyLongLunch and another major sponsor who we are just finishing negotiations with. More news when we have it!

@mattalder and @jamieasleonard

Two years on and still going strong

After having a conservation with someone about student marketing this week, I couldn't help remembering the video below. I first posted it on Digital Recruiting two years ago and I'm pleased to say that, despite some  formidable competition, it remains one of my favourite worst recruitment videos ever. However having clocked up nearly a million views maybe bad is good after all!

Have a great weekend

The future of newspapers? Surely not.......

News report from 1981! So much I could write about it but for now I'm going to let you just watch it.....

Social Media and the inauguration

I'm still actually watching it so I'm not going to make this a long post! Managed to take a screenshot of the CNN's streaming video and Facebook integration. Pure genius....if you didn't believe social media was the future now might be a good time to think again

UPDATE - Here are the official stats for it (from Mashable)

The stats released, as of noon ET:

1. There were 200,000+ status updates through the Facebook integration on CNN.com

2. at that time, 3,000 people commented on the Facebook CNN feed per minute

3. Obama’s Facebook Fan Page has more than 4 million fans and in excess of 500,000 wall posts

Review of the year and don't forget to vote for us

Thanks to everyone who voted for us in Louise's Best UK Recruitment Blog of 2008 , we've made the final shortlist of 6 which is great news. We just need you to vote for us all again now, which you can do here.

Just so you all know what you're voting for I thought it would good to remind you of the five most popular posts on Digital Recruiting in 2008. I was going to do these based on traffic but in the brave new world of engagement I decided to pick the posts which had generated the most comments. So in reverse order......

5    Linkedin and the death of the CV - 11 comments

4    Going Down  12 comments

3    Linkedin follow up post - 13 comments

1 = Some desk based nostalgia and reflection - 14 comments

1 =  Social Media an inaccurate truth - 14 comments

Massive thanks to everyone who has supported us this year, hope you all have a great Christmas and here's to an interesting 12 months of blogging in 09!

Matt

It's that time of year again.......

Yes that's right it's December and that can only mean one thing. I am of course referring to Louise's UK Recruitment Blog of the year competition. Now far be it from me to blatantly solicit votes for Digital Recruiting but you know what....I'm going to

So if you've enjoyed our sometimes insightful, sometimes random but never dull prattling this year then we'd love it if you voted for us here