Evolution of (Social) Recruiting

Just this week a unique conference was held at Google Headquarters in Mountain View, California. The Social Recruiting Summit brought together voices from the recruiting industry who pay particular attention to the social aspect of it. The speakers included many of the thought leaders of the industry.

• Reid Hoffman - LinkedIn
• Susan Burns - Talent Synchronicity
• Sacha Chua - Living An Awesome Life
• Shannon Seery Gude - EXCELER8ion
• Chris Hoyt - The Recruiter Guy
• Joshua Kahn - Find-Attract
• Michael Marlatt - Hewitt Associates
• Laurie Ruettimann - Punk Rock HR
• Shally Steckerl - JobMachine
• William Uranga - TiVo

And just because you were not a speaker, doesn't mean that you didn't contribute. Community is what social media is all about. Learning from each other and collaborating for a better future. Isn't that great?

Here is the video that opened the conference and it illustrates where recruiting has come from, where it is now, but poses the big question of what the future holds.

Lastly, you can find video streams from the conference to see what you missed by visiting the main social recruiting summit website. It's worth your time to listen to the voices of today's recruiting industry. You never know what you might learn.

A How-To Guide to Corporate HR Blogging

Kudos and HUGE props to Ben Yoskovitz of Standout Jobs and Susan Burns of Talent Synchronicity for putting together this guide about blogging from a corporate HR department, or a one-(wo)man department as it may be for many of Cool Works' clients, called A Definitive Guide to Corporate HR Blogging. I highly recommend requesting this free guide from their website and reading it cover to cover. It's worth your time and energy and for those of you who have heard me speak at SHRA conferences about dabbling in social networking or blogs, here is the document you can share with your boss(es) to prove I'm right their value.

To Do List (hearkening back to Mark's legal presentations at SHRA) -

• Get the Free Guide!

That is all.

Marc Andreesen on the Media and Why You Should Care

Marc Andreesen, co-founder of Netscape, in conversation with Charlie Rose, acclaimed interviewer and broadcaster, talking about the eventual fall of newspapers, the rise of social networks and the use of mobile. It is about an hour, but well worth your time to take a peek at our collective future on the Internet.



You can view the whole transcript here on TechCrunch.

Cool Works' tie to Marc Andreesen is a result of his co-founding, Ning, with Gina Bianchini. Our social network, My CoolWorks, exists because of their platform. You can learn more about them and their reason for creating Ning here.

Thank goodness for the innovators!