Gretchen from Microsoft has provided a fantasticreal world example of how to effectively use her blog within a recruiting environment. Gretchen and some of her colleagues are looking at cold calling candidates to try and attract “passive candidates”. So before they undertake the exercise she has decided to run a short survey to find outContinue reading “Effective use of recruiting blogs”
Category Archives: Blogging
Blogging = Good Career?
Tim Bray from ongoing wrote last week about how blogging can be good, yes good not evil. Basically Tim brings it do to a couple of clear facts. You will have employees who blog Becuase 1 is true then you must have a policy! Tim’s post also gives us 10 reasons why and how bloggingContinue reading “Blogging = Good Career?”
Sending blog entries from my phone
My post yesterday from the Grand Prix practice round made it up, but with a typo in the title. I plan to leave it there. I am in the process of uploading several other pictures to Flickr.
Want to know what is a Blog?
Darren Rowse published at the beginning of the month a great item on defining a blog. Darren’s site is a fantastic resource for all types of bloggers from the first time blogger to the blogger who wants to earn a living from blogging.
Thanks John for the traffic!
A couple of days ago John Sumser placed my blog in a list of the top 20 or so new HR/recruiting related blogs! Thanks for the mention, I am most humbled to see my blog there with so many others that I read daily.
I annoyed Mitch, sorry
I think I upset Mitch Denny today (or was that yesterday?). Anyway I think I have finally fixed the comments on my blog. For the last few weeks I have been trying to get Haloscan comments to operate but the Blogger template was just not doing as I wanted it to. With the move toContinue reading “I annoyed Mitch, sorry”
SAP blogs
Over the last couple of days I have been trying to subscribe to some of the executive blogs from SAP., but can only seem to find an email subscription. Very sad, I don’t want them in my email I want them in my RSS reader.
Perceptions from the other side
Jeremy Wright has posted an enlighting item trying the answer the question, “are people fired for blogging” or “are they fired for poor judgment”. Jeremy’s post was in response to Anil’s recent post on a non-blogger who got fired for blogging. Anil puts lots of things into perspective. It all boils down to one thingContinue reading “Perceptions from the other side”
BBC article on blogs & work
The BBC has this interesting item on blogging and work. UPDATED: Blogger seems to have done something very strange with my post, I think it is now fixed.
UK blogger sacked (dooced)
From the Guardian in the UK is a story of Joe Gordon being dooced by his employer Waterstone for keeping a blog. Joe was sacked on 6th Jan a week ago, so far he has been interviewed several times, discussion has raged over in the UK, he has had over 180 comments in the lastContinue reading “UK blogger sacked (dooced)”
Michael Specht 