Category Archives: Recruitment

Gretchen has recently introduced a new concept/category/area/idea on the Technical Careers@Microsoft blog, The Suggestion Kitty’s Bite of Advice. Some great pieces of advice for all job seekers. (I do have to wonder if the Kitty is a virtual replacement for Zoe?)

Zoe one of the Moon Gals on the Technical Careers @ Microsoft blog is leaving Microsoft to pursue other opportunities. Hopefully she will continue blogging in her new role.

Angus Logan has a couple of interesting snippets on the wealth at Google. Following yesterday’s post on Googles potential hiring issues it all makes sense that they might be having a small hiring issue. I for one would probably find it difficult to work in the same cube as someone who has $1 million inContinue reading “More on Google riches”

From John Battelle’s Searchblog I found an interesting post over at the Google Blog. What I found most interesting were the comments on John’s blog where readers seem to feel that Google might be the cause of their own issues. Over the last month or so there has been discussion in the last few weeksContinue reading “Google having trouble recruiting?”

Johanna was interviewed by Roy Osherove while she was in Israel in early December, the MP3 file can be found at IT Conversations. Johanna provides some text book items on both recruitment and project management, a highly recommended item, I plan to listen again and make some notes. Michael (Canadian Headhunter) has posted a greatContinue reading “Johanna Rothman on interviewing and project management”

Ok, maybe she got them from Dr John, but I like her take on them. In the spirit of “eat your own dog food” ask your most recent Gen Y recruit’s what they thought of your process. See how many of the 17 they talk about. Then change your process.