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Social Recruiting Summit Presentation : Sacred Cow tipping

findattr — Mon, 08 Jun 2009 08:00:34 +0000

Be ready to answer this, and other questions on June 15th at the social recruiting summit between 2:30-3:30 Pacific Standard Time. Either in person or while spying from afar.

8 things

findattr — Mon, 20 Aug 2007 13:36:00 +0000

Thank you Moises for tagging me. Here’s the eight things you don’t know about me. I was also tagged similarly a long time ago by Steven from Collegerecruiter.com, but like a bad social networker never posted it. So this hopefully honors my debt of Guanxi there as well.

1. I have a degree in Traditional Chinese Medicine. It’s a “Master’s equivalent” degree from Northwestern Health Sciences University in Bloomington, MN. I practiced acupuncture and herbal medicine for a few years until it became painfully apparent that I had no idea how to handle the business side of being in practice. Complicating my business ineptitude was the newness of Oriental Medicine to main street, U.S.A. After a few years of struggling, and working long hours for little pay, I had to change direction in my career. I learned a tremendous amount about people, health, and an the value of different paradigms. More than that I learned a lot about communicating a complicated and completely foreign systems of concepts (chinese medicine) to surgeons, M.D.s, and patients. The best part of this failure is I can still apply the concepts behind Chinese Medicine to the work I do now. This will require another post to explain.

2. My mother was a nun. When I ask my mom about the 60’s she says “I don’t remember that, I was in the convent.” Granted, she was smoking behind the furnace in the convent boiler room, but nonetheless insulated from outside society. She’s now doing massage at a local spot in Eagan, MN. Interesting twist, she’s now married to a guy who was in the seminary (my dad is agnostic). Also, her twin sister, who was also in the convent, also married a guy who was in the seminary. They are still married, have two grown children and several grandchildren, and about as far from monastic life as you can get. Great people.

3. I’m a U2 fanatic. At one point was probably in need of talking to someone about it, but am recovered a bit. I still think they are a phenomenal band, and still want to buy Bono and the lads a beer at some point in my life, but have broadened my horizon’s musically.

4. Outside of my family, my next greatest love is golf. If I was independently wealthy, I would golf alot, everyday, twice a day, or more. I have saved countless dollars, and hours on psychotherapy, by instead going to the driving range, or chipping in my yard. My boys both have hit real golf balls since they were in diapers, and hopefully will grow to enjoy golf along with my daughter. My wife used to play in high school and has a great swing. I look forward to playing St. Andrews with my kids some day.

5. I am an Aikidoka. Wha? It means I practice the Japanese martial art of Aikido. I started in College at the University of Minnesota Duluth. It, along with Traditional Chinese Medicine has been one of the biggest philosophical influences in my life.

6. My wife is also in sourcing/recruiting. She works for a small IT consulting firm locally. She isn’t as active in social media as I am, but she is an absolute rock star when it comes to sourcing and search.

7. My dad has no TV or cell phone. Not too many people out there who have neither of these by choice. He still has only a dial-up connection. Amazing since my dad is essentially a portfolio manager in practice for himself. He works on the stock portfolio’s of a small group of friends and their referrals. He’s made a go of it since being laid off from Control Data almost 20 years ago. My dad is a serious intellectual and reader and has influenced me through his ability to think clearly and always encourage me to find the answer, as opposed to telling me the answer.

8. I have a friend who was injured in the I-35W bridge collapse a few weeks ago. She works at Best Buy for Accenture. Her fiance is a good friend who used to work here in staffing as well. Jake and Mercedes are great people, huge music fanatics (Jake is also an award-winning local DJ) whose lives have been turned upside down since the collapse. Go here to read their story, Mercedes is still one of only 7 left in the hospital, and will be for another 2.5 weeks at least. Her injuries are consistent with someone having jumped out of an airplane with no parachute. She’s alive and will likely walk again, but has a long road to get there.

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Developer Job, work in your underwear

findattr — Thu, 07 Jun 2007 20:30:00 +0000

Do you like to work in your pajamas/underwear/shorts/?
Do you prefer dark enclosed places to being outdoors?
Would you like to report directly to this guy….

…as part of a small, rapid software prototyping team charged with the design and programming of small “alpha” and “beta” level software proof of concepts?

Have you participated in any or all of the following:
WoW
LAN parties
Topcoder competitions
MMPORGs?
Do you speak C++ OR Java OR AJAX OR .NET?
Are you comfortable with Penguins and Windows?
Do you know what UI is and how it relates to the above?
Want to get paid for these qualities? Know someone who does?

Just submit a comment to this post and we’ll talk…

Geek Squad fixes Mandroid, no more Whistle S!!

findattr — Tue, 05 Jun 2007 13:57:00 +0000

Does your Mandroid suffer from that annoying ‘whistle S’ bug? The Geek Squad can help.

thanks SplendAd, kudos to Crispin Porter + Bogusky as well. Enjoy!

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Turning the Haters -Chief Inspector shows us how…

findattr — Fri, 01 Jun 2007 21:06:00 +0000

This is what makes it cool to work at Best Buy/Geek Squad. This is also the epitome of lead by example, and shows the value of turning the haters. The Consumerist has been posting anti-Geek Squad stuff for awhile, some legit (GS isn’t perfect, yet) some flaming stuff. T. GS Chief Inspector, Robert Stephens stepped up and is personally doing something about it…..check it. Previously the comments have been very hostile toward GS. Now, follow the link to the original post, and you’ll see the comments now are quite in favor of Geek Squad. Hmm. Maybe there’d be a way to ‘Recruit the Haters?’ After all, they have passion around the subject, and in some cases are quite knowledgeable. Anyone doing this?

clipped from consumerist.com

UPDATE: Geek Squad CEO Promises To Resolve Any Consumerist Reader Complaint He Receives, And Then Does So 4,718 Views

Geek Squad CEO Robert Stephens just emailed us:

I have some good news… I am building a full time dedicated team just for The Geek Squad to help with any service issues. We have also setup a system to manage the volume.

Email info@geeksquadcentral.com with the subject line, “For Robert”

Stephens says your email will go directly into a trouble ticket system that, “hassles me and the other execs until the stuff gets resolved.”

He gave us an email address like this before, and it’s worked wonders for readers who used it, but Stephens says the new address will get to him even faster than before. — BEN POPKEN

Accountant Careers.co.uk provides accounting jobs in the UK via its employment Web site.

C++ is the language of love, just ask Fabio

findattr — Thu, 01 Mar 2007 21:33:00 +0000

Has the gap between the jocks and the geeks finally been bridged?

Check out the video, you may pick up some tips on how to romance that special developer in your life…

Do you have a special developer in your life?

Refer them to these positions with the Geek Squad an earn some cash

Dot Com openings at Best Buy, update

findattr — Tue, 27 Feb 2007 12:52:00 +0000

Quick update on the post from the other day. We have a couple of openings now posted to H3. Both positions are within our dotcom department and involve work with our affiliate programs and Search Engine Marketing, if one has SEO in their background, that’s gravy.

Follow the link below if you’re interested for yourself or to refer others, $2000 referral reward for each position.

Dot Com Referrals

Cheers,

Josh

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eCommerce opening at Best Buy, refer a friend, get $2000

findattr — Fri, 23 Feb 2007 13:37:00 +0000

Bestbuy.com has been doing well from a traffic standpoint lately. More exciting is that our website is going through a phase of growth and development right now. Becoming part of the BestBuy.com organization is a great opportunity for anyone who wants to be a part of what promises to be a Best in Class site, from a traffic standpoint, from a usability standpoint, and other, um standpoints. Changes are afoot behind the scenes and we’d love to talk with top talent about it.

Overall, our organization is growing like crazy, our China operation is already showing phenomenal results, after only a few months of the first Best Buy store in China (Shanghai) opening up. This growth into a global organization will affect our dot com department as well. Right now we are in the process of seeking conversations with top talent from the ecommerce industry. If you know someone in the industry or know people who know people in the industry, we’ll pay you for who you know. Go here to refer a friend, get $2k. Pass it on to the people you know, even if the aren’t in eCommerce themselves, if they know someone who is, send it to ‘em.

Cheers,

Josh

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Doodads! New Blog SCroll

findattr — Mon, 22 Jan 2007 15:44:00 +0000

So my blog is really the place I can experiment with creating something online using any widgety, gadgety, doodad I can find. Despite my lack of posts of late, I have been discovering a few new things that I will goof around with on the blog here. Exhibit A is the new LinkedIn a box bit on the right there. Those who caught El Dave’s post on this are familiar already, love the subtle reference to the infamous JT bit on SNL. Much improved over the ‘my profile’ stuff provided by Blogger. I encourage you to roll over some of the stuff there and check it out for yourself. Combines me, at least professionally, with an ability to network with me as well via LinkedIn. Neato.

Exhibit B, would be my latest discovery thanks to PSFK.com. This is the Springwidget dealio over there. I just finished putting it into my code and figuring out the correct pixel width to fit my sidebar. All in all it took me about 10 minutes of goofing around to get it there in its current form. It’s not perfect since you, gentle reader, will have to interact with it to see who I’m reading, but the cool thing is you can get a quick lookie at what those cats are saying by viewing their posts. I like it, I think. We’ll see if it stays after my widget buzz wears off. More interesting to me is some of the other stuff that Springwidget has in their quiver, and their underlying stratgey. You can download the Springwidget platform, and it allow you to pick up any widget for your desktop whenever you are on a site and see one of their little green cog logos. For the creation of these widgets they are opening the creative to the world. Another example of the crowdsourcing phenomenon that has become commonplace. Basically its another take on the way that Google allows user to create their Google homepage. In this case however its on your desktop. They appear to be new entrants into this game, so we’ll see what happens. The next widget I’m looking for is the PGA tour gadget that updates me real time on the major tournaments as they happen, right to my desktop.

Exhibit C, Snap.com preview anywhere, this has been here for a bit, but I definitely dig it. The Snap.com preview bit on any of my links in my posts. Both of my readers will have noticed by now that when you roll over any links in my posts, the handy preview window pops up. Snap has been making some noise lately as well with other stuff. Check out their search engine, pretty cool features. Someone smarter than me will have to check out the robustness(?) of the search capability there, but I love the presentation of results.

The great thing about all these is that you can add these to yer stuff without being a code wizard. Clearly I am more like Mickey Mouse in Fantasia than the wizard. Look for lots of brooms running amok soon.

“That’s great, Josh”, you say, “but what does any of this have to do with recruiting?”

Good question. I don’t know for sure yet, but I do know that these all relate to presenting and or delivering content in new ways. Content of course can be job content (DING).
Cheers,

Josh

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Competition for Alexa?

findattr — Fri, 03 Nov 2006 18:20:00 +0000

For a long time my secret, to recruiting outsiders anyway- weapon was Alexa. Most folks that would read this posting know of Alexa. To my knowledge its stood alone as the standard for tracking traffic to most any site on the web. Thanks to my very functional google reader and Greg Sterling at Search Engine Journal, I’ve discovered a few competitors.

The first, directly mentioned in the posting on SEJ is Snapshot from Compete. Compete was started by Bill Gross, of ‘Goto’, and ‘Overture’ fame. I could bore you with my rendition of the features of this product, but why? When they’ve created this neato video complete with Blue Man Group background music.

The second Alexa competitor is mentioned in a comment on the SEJ blogpost mentioned above. This one is Quantcast, developed by engineers from NASA, Stanford, and Altavista. Co-founded by Konrad Feldman, former CEO of Searchspace, “until 2005. During this time Searchspace grew to be the largest vendor of anti-money laundering and terrorist financing detection software to the world’s financial industry.”

What I like about Quantcast is the way the info is presented, go here to see what they say about Alexa.com

If you are looking to target a certain purchasing demographic for instance, Quantcast has a graph for that. If you are wondering about the diversity of the audience for a particular site, they have a graph for that as well. They seem to be a bit newer than the other sites but I prefer their presentation of the data. Go check ‘em out and decide for yourselves.

Cheers,

Josh

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