From Current – Linked In… To What?
“We gotta lock-in the Linked In’zzz…” I couldn’t pass on this awesome video from Current, discussing LinkedIn. The song at the end is hilarious (“you got to link yo’ ass up!”) and there are some valid points regarding recommendations and what people actually do/don’t do on LinkedIn. However – I’m disturbed by the portrayal of the ‘head-hunter’… is that how you all really view us recruiting professionals? If so – we need to seriously clean up our act.

Fast Company: Does Your Company Need A Dedicated Tweeter?
Last Tuesday, Chris Dannen wrote an article on Fast Company giving a brief analysis of Weber S

Why I Prefer TweepML Over Twitter Lists
Twitter recently released Twitter Lists which allow you to group people together based on whatever subjective categorization method you want. For example: since its rollout I’ve been made a part of 107 lists, including: Networking Rockstars, Human Capital Peeps, Movers and Shakers, 

Sourcing Isn’t Dying… It’s Evolving (Part II)
Last Wednesday, I wrote a post about how I believe that sourcing is not dying, but evolving. I ended the post with a teaser about what I believe sourcing will evolve into in the coming years. I certainly don’t think the need for the skills which sourcers possess will go away, but I feel like other aspects of a sourcer’s repertoire will become more in-demand as our communication metho

Sourcing Isn’t Dying… It’s Evolving (Part I)
I’ve seen the topic “sourcing is dying”, written in a couple of different forms, in a couple of articles over the last year. Without any disrespect to my colleagues who have penned these writings, I must disagree with your sentiments. Here are some of those articles: Digging Into RecruitingBlogs.com v2.08: The Death of Sourcing (February 2009) Is Sourcing Dead? (March 2009)