Digital Recruiting

Sex in the work place?

Well that got your attention!

Latest viral from Careerbuilder.com as tracked down by Cheezhead

LinkedIn - Follow up post 2

Interesting article here as posted by Peter Gold earlier.  Yes of course you would expect this to happen for a social media marketing manager role  (now there's a job that didn't exist 18 months ago!) but I still maintain it's the beginning of a major trend. My original thoughts are here and the first follow up post is here.

How many UK publishers are living on borrowed time?

Interesting article here from The New York Times. Gives an example of yet another US newspaper closing it's print edition and then goes on to profile how publisher IDG has transformed it's revenue base to become a majority digital business.

How many UK publishers can say they have done the same and how many have proper plans in place to do so? There is much hype around but personally I've seen only a tiny handful that truly get it, know where they need to be and most importantly know how to get there

Still the combination of falling readership, falling ad revenues, growing digital literacy, growing digital ad revenues and an economic slowdown will no doubt expedite the process. So cast your votes; which UK titles are going digital only first and which ones are just going

Matt

FR2.0

As we seem to be having Social Media week here on Digital Recruiting I thought I point out, to those who hadn't noticed, that Friends Reunited has had a web 2.0 face lift. Too little too later or perfectly poised to capitalise on having an alleged older demographic than Facebook? Who knows these days but I suspect the former. Despite the new platform (which does have some nice features) I couldn't see any clever job content integration, just a co-branded feed for Jobsite. So is it one last roll of the dice for ITV or just some tweaking to help them offload it?

Social Media

This one is dedicated to Alex and Tim!

More corporate lip syncing japery

Just spotted this on Jim Stroud's blog

Digg Dubb: Groove Is In The Heart from Trammell on Vimeo.

Not as good as this one but a nice try!

"10 Downing Street" is on Twitter but who are they?

You may have read that "10 Downing Street" is now updating us on various facets of the Prime Minister's day via Twitter. While the thought behind this move must be applauded, it's a shame that the execution misses the point somewhat. There is no pretence that Gordon Brown himself is writing the updates which is good but they are coming from the anonymous www.twitter.com/downingstreet  and this is not how Twitter works. The point is that when you're talking on Twitter you are a named person. Even if people don't know you they know that they are listening / talking to a real person. If a big brand came on and starting Twittering as a product name there would be uproar so why should it be any different for the Government?

I've asked Downingstreet twice now for some more details about who is writing the updates but as yet I've not received a reply. It's definitely a real person (or people) as they've referred to themselves several times in the first person. Why not be completely transparent and let us know who you are!

Anyway as I can't get a reply on my own I'm enlisted help from all you other Twitter users out there. Send Downing Street a message when you're next Twittering and ask who they are....maybe with weight of numbers we'll find out who is really behind the virtual door of Number 10!!!

Matt

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Some brief thoughts on blogging and Twitter

Brief Interview with me in the The Recruiter.....wish I'd been able to find a more up to date photo!!

Matt

LinkedIn - Follow Up Post

There were so many interesting comments in response to my recent thoughts on LinkedIn that I thought I’d post a follow up. The revolution it would seem is well under way. It was good to hear from John who has just successful landed a VP of Engineering role by using his LinkedIn profile rather than having a CV (well resume in his case!). I was also very interested in Jacco’s comment about the ING job site which is already allowing candidates to upload their Linkedin profile as part of the application process. Finally Peter Gold pointed out the widgetisation  of the site, something that reminded me to add a link on the blog to my own LinkedIn profile.

Revolution it may be, but this week I also got proof that the UK recruitment industry still isn’t embracing the site as it should. The extremely well connected Louise at UK Recruiter asked permission to publish my email address in her newsletter and on her blog so that her connections / readers could link to me on LinkedIn as an “Open Connector” . The response was brilliant and I got over a hundred new connections in a couple of days. I was surprised though that such a small percentage of these came from the UK. It’s certainly not always the case with online recruitment but, in this instance, it would seem that they are a significant distance ahead of us in the US.

I’m still convinced though that this is going to change and when it does what are the longer term implications? What’s the future for job board CV databases, CV writing services, CV Parsing companies etc etc. Are they ready, with their future strategies already mapped out, or will they be caught on the back foot? Would certainly be interested in people’s thoughts.

Finally a new equation for you and a taster of an article that I’m currently working on for another site

Linkedin + Twitter = Business Facebook

Valid for the moment but the continuing uptake of Ning could certainly make the algebra a bit more complex in the near future!

(to connect to me on LinkedIn add me as connection on the site using my email address [email protected], to follow me on Twitter follow this link)

So that's how you do it!

I'm pretty sure that some people in our industry actually think this is how you build web sites!