Digital Recruiting

Three years later is this still the worst recruitment video ever?

It's now three years since I posted  what I considered at the time to be the worst recruitment video I'd ever seen to Digital Recruiting. As it is also a year since I last reposted it, I thought it was high time we all took another look.

Now interestingly as I re-watched this, it didn't seem quite as bad as I remembered! With sites like Animoto offering easy to use software which anyone can use to replicate the photo montage style, this kind of rough and ready promo has actually become quite common. It wasn't long though before I realised that I was viewing it with the sound turned off......it only took a few seconds of reacquainting myself with the song to be sure that it is still the worst recruitment video ever!

Matt

One day and two events you can’t afford to miss

This year has certainly been a memorable one and not often for the right reasons. However, despite times being so tough for our industry, it’s great to see that over the last few months so many people have come together via Twitter to network and collaborate on creating a more positive and innovative future. The point the social media naysayers always seem to miss is how much Twitter and other social media platforms actually enhance face to face interaction rather than stifling it. To prove this there are not one but two face to face events running in London on Thursday 19th November that I believe will prove invaluable to anyone interested in innovating their way out of the recession in 2010.

First up during the day we have what I’m pretty sure is the first Recruiting Unconference held in the UK. The legendary @BillBoorman is organising everything and it promises to be a unique and interesting day. I’m hosting / co-ordinating / facilitating / refereeing the “Social Media Circus” alongside keen social recruiter  Wendy Jacob and I’m looking forward to some lively discussion and debate. Bill has provided a comprehensive overview of the day here on the sign up page and I know you’ll be very impressed with the breadth and scope of the agenda

Directly after the Unconference Jamie Leonard and myself will be hosting the third Recruitment Tweetup (#RTU to give it’s Twitter hashtag name) which will be held in a bar at the Unconference venue. Registration for the Tweetup is separate to the Unconference and you don’t have to attend during the day to come in the evening. However as we think you’d be mad to miss the daytime shenanigans,  we’re offering a special discount code on Unconference tickets for anyone who registers for the Tweetup. Here’s what happened at the last Tweetup in July.

Sign up for the Tweetup here

Sign up for the Unconference here

Matt

Did You Know 4.0 - "Shift Happens" updated for 2009

I blogged the original version of this video way back in 2007. Great to see it updated.....well worth watching

Thanks for coming to the Summer Recruitment Tweetup #RTU

A belated thank you  to everyone who came to the Summer Recruitment Tweetup a couple of weeks ago. Particular thanks must go to my co-organiser Jamie Leonard (now working at The Ladders) and our generous sponsors TwitterJobSearch and 1Job.co.uk

We’ll be looking to do another one in October or  November  so if anyone has any good ideas about formats or venues please get in touch.

For those of you who couldn’t make it on the night this is what you missed…..

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