http://find-attract.com finding talent + attracting talent Thu, 17 Sep 2009 17:37:49 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en I'm leaving Accenture and joining Best Buy.  Feels weird to say that because I've been at Best Buy for 4.5 years or so.  Up until now, or at least until Sept. 28, I've been an Accenture employee.  So the location isn't so different, same campus, different building.  One major  difference ... http://find-attract.com/changing-sandcrawlers/ What is it? Spend what might be the best minute and 48 seconds you've spent in a long time and watch this video. Ok, now that you've got the gist of it. Think about disintermediation when it comes to the recruiting industry. I've had a goal for a long ... http://find-attract.com/disintermediation/ Who needs job boards when you have the associated press? At some point in the near future there will be a much longer blog post/case study on this thing, but wanted to note a quick mention on this developing story. We've been doing some crowd-sourcing at Best Buy ... http://find-attract.com/best-buy-twitter-crowdsourcing-and-the-associated-press/ A few words I use very sparingly are 'Should', 'Right' and 'Wrong'; especially when talking about anything related to social media. I think one of the most maddening aspects of social media for people trying to decide how to use it or if they should use it is ... http://find-attract.com/should-you-post-jobs-to-twitter/ Discuss. Be ready to discuss this and more at the Social Recruiting Summit at 2:30 PST next Monday.  If you can't be there in person, you can still follow and contribute to the discussion, use this;  Spy. http://find-attract.com/social-recruiting-summit-principle-1/ 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. http://find-attract.com/social-recruiting-summit-presentation-sacred-cow-tipping/ If you Google "Talent Community Manager" what do you see? Yep, no results.  Now try this, "Community Manager". You get 3.37 million results.   Why is that? Is there really no one with the Talent Community Manager job title?  Or even talking about it?  Apparently not.  Even if you change the phrase to "talent ... http://find-attract.com/new-job-talent-community-manager/ Here's a few selections from the Find+Attract Diigo group. Its an open bookmarking group for anything on the web useful to sourcers, recruiters, or employment branding people alike. We're up to 14 members at the moment including recent and notable additions; Glenn Gutmacher, Michael Marlatt, Marvin Smith, Amitai Givertz, Ritesh ... http://find-attract.com/findattract-diigo-group-digest/ Round two of the FOT March Madness blog challenge begins today. Just like before, using the widget below, vote on your favorite of the two blog posts in each game. I'm in game #21. Voting is open until noon (EST) on Wednesday. As a little fairness in competition, here's ... http://find-attract.com/fistul-of-talent-march-madness-round-two/ March is here and my friends over at FOT, Fistful of Talent are conducting a blog contest March Madness style. They've set up a bracket of 64 different HR, Recruiting, Sourcing, and Talent themed blogs. The contest will run for 10 days, 2 days per round, winners determined ... http://find-attract.com/march-madness-fistful-of-talent-style/