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Does Your Recruitment Process Include Some Good PR?
Last week I was asked to contribute an article for the RecruiterNewsletter.com by Amy Renz, COO of HireAbility.com (for whom I recently recorded a very insightful webinar).  For this article I wrote about a topic that was brought up in a couple of good blog posts last month by Jessica Miller-Merrell (@blogging4jobs) and Amybeth Hale (

Demented and Sad, But Social
I've got way too many social commitments.  Unfortunately they are mostly online.  I have developed this terrific group of friends on Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn, Ning networks, and various blogs.  And like a good social networker I participate, comment, volunteer, post, etc.  So much so that I have little free time.

Are You an Old School Recruiter?
By Craig Fisher www.fishdogs.com I see quite a few posts lately about "old school" recruiting, about how all this social media and web2.0 stuff is just a waste of time. And it makes me wonder if we are really talking about old school, or just recent school.

Facebook Is the Fourth Largest Country in the World
A colleague in the recruiting industry told me this week that he made a social media faux pas.  He asked an admin to post a job opening to Twitter.  But she accidentally posted it to Facebook.  I was quick to tell him that I didn't think it was a faux pas at all to post a job opening to Facebook, "le facebook n'est pas un faux pas!".  Okay, I didn't really say that.  But I don't think that it is bad form to post a job opening, job search, or anything job related to Facebook. An article posted yesterday on TechCrunch noted some stats, visualize

Social Media and Recruiting: Some Companies Just Don't Get It
I heard recently about a company that didn't want their corporate recruiters to have their Twitter profile connected to their Linkedin profile because they were concerned that the recruiters might say something on Twitter that would reflect badly on the company.  Amazing.  I wonder if they are going to ask them to stop sending email and using the phone too. An untrusting environment and a misguided approach to control will not breed productivity or loyalty.  In this great article by Stephanie Lloyd, Do you keep your employees in cages or