An interesting and somewhat lively event is how I would sum up the Social Recruiting Conference 2011, laid on by Alan Whitford and Vic Okezie – well done fella’s! After a few days off, my reflections and thoughts: What about the internal talent? Acquisition is the obsession it seems. It is incredible to see how pre occupied…
As a follow up to something I mentioned in my last post I wanted to share some of my thoughts around social media strategy in recruiting ahead of the panel session on the same subject at the Social Recruiting Conference on Thursday the 30th June 2011. These thoughts were also inspired in part by the recent post…
I wrote the following paragraph in a paper in 2004 for a strategic review of the recruitment business I was running: “Our proposition is to move away from the notion of resourcing altogether. In our new world, resourcing is purely one of a number of opportunities or consequences of a new form of activity –…
If you are in HR and wondering what impact social media will have in your organisation beyond ‘employees wasting time’ then I have something for you. I was recently lucky enough to be invited along to the Sunday Times Best Companies Top 100 dinner as a result of a very generous invite from the CIPD. …
I have been thinking a lot about job boards recently, as both a customer and a jobseeker. In these socially enabled times, it strikes me that the job board user experience should be something like this: Jobs are displayed in easy on the eye tag clouds, instead of ordered lists we know are manipulated…
They say only the good die young and if 40 is the new 30 then we have indeed been robbed of someone in their prime. Always the professional; honest, ethical and with the highest levels of integrity she touched the hearts and minds of some of the greats in HR, including, on occasion, multiple generations…
I had the privilege of meeting Greg Dyke a couple of times and I found him inspiring. I’m dedicating this post to him and his wise words on leadership, which were nicely summed up this weekend in “The Secrets Of My Success” feature in the Mail on Sunday. More words of wisdom and an eye…
