It seems Jobster is having some teething issues with getting recruiters to think strategically. They seem to be having difficulty in getting traction within organisations, they can grab a couple of strategic recruiters but the line recruiters are a challenge.
As I had mentioned in my review in April the change management was probably the biggest issue facing Jobster. Andrew Merritt from Resourcing Strategies posted yesterday about the same thing and provides some very clearly thought out reasons for the issues and gives us some places to look at solving the problems.
At a fundamental level Jobster is a technology and technology is an enabler it is not the answer. The question to ask is: “Can I implement the process without technology?” If not then implementing technology will not help. This may seem strange but if you cannot clearly define and implement a process without technology you do not understand the problem, yes the implementation might be inefficient, difficult, costly and slow but these are the things that technology will solve. Andrew even mentions this in comment on the post.
Michael Specht 
Hi there!
I was wondering whether you were aware of anyone who blogs about their work as HR employees, i.e. ideally someone who blogs anonymously about what they do on a day-to-day basis at work.
I’m researching work-related blogs and over 190 such blogs on my site.
http://workblogging.blogspot.com/
Please let me know if anyone who does this or any other work-related blogs you may know of refer to.
Thanks
James
Not sure there is anyone who blogs about their work within the HR profession. Most HR people kind of like their job and blogging about it is a sure fire way of losing it. Of course unless you have the blessing of your employer and they are prepare for the outcome, a bit like Scoble.
I never implied that people who blog about work are unhappy with their jobs. Some clearly are in a way, but very few are hostile towards their employer.
If you look at the blogs you will see that many are professionals who want to talk about their work on a more open basis (i.e. many lawyers, teachers, doctors, police officers, etc.).
Many are terrified about what they do, mostly because an almost complete ignorance of what is being said on them
Please reconsider!
Sorry James I think we got our wires crossed, which is easy in writing.
I agree that blogs allow transparent communications and it is a fantastic method of generating an understanding about a certain topic. My point was that most organisations at this stage do not understand the power and benefits of blogging and as such look fairly poorly on the whole practice. HR professionals are typically the keepers of the Internet Usage policy and as such need to be very careful about what they do, until of course the policy is revised and management sees the value. The other point was in a recent survey about 70% of all HR professional did not know what a blog was or had not read a blog.
Having said that there are some very good HR blogs out there, see the BlogRoll, some who do write about their work. Although most do not proved specific insight into their place of work it is more general.
I hope this makes sense. If not let me know.
BTW I really like your blog you are covering some very interesting and relevant info keep the content coming!