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Feb 9, 2012, 12:36 pm
The general opinion of many of the comments I have seen on this one are not of surprise that Oracle made this move. However, my question is more about what this offers the customer.
For me, there are two key points of view on this one; best-of-breed vs. single platform/vendor/code base. But in... Comment - Like
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Feb 8, 2012, 7:02 am
OK there's no job; or is there? Imagine if all jobs stated the reality of the position! Would anyone take a look? You did. Can't see it happening any day soon but imagine it did. Comment - Like
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Feb 6, 2012, 8:16 am
... this post is to ask if Facebook is really suitable for B2B ... promoted their Spring 2012 Release on Facebook in a marketing e-mail. ... to their website rather than a Facebook Page? Is this just SF ... it part of the move towards Facebook being a B2B marketing channel ... that some people ... Comment - Like
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Feb 1, 2012, 3:18 am
Click the TRU image to buy a ticket
I didn't attend the first TRU London but have attended them ever since and this year will be my third. TRU events have been memorable for me and I am hoping this year will be even better again; two years on there has been a lot of change! I also intend to tu... Comment - Like
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Jan 31, 2012, 3:15 am
So we are starting to see various vendors claim their stake in the career site SEO (search engine optimisation) game. But just because you optimise your jobs, it does not mean you have found the golden nugget.
First off, I have seen optimised jobs i.e. they are found by search en... Comment - Like
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Jan 30, 2012, 3:08 am
This question has been nagging me for a while. So many recruiters have claimed that they get all their hires from the job boards they use yet in reality they have no decent tracking to know where their hires really come from. Now Linkedin is flavour of the month but is it really just a load of... Comment - Like
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Jan 3, 2012, 3:25 am
Do you see 2012 as the time to get rid of that ageing HR system or are you going to fix it instead?
As we come into 2012 there will be a number of people in new jobs who see technology as one of their challenges ahead. But so often I hear the rallying of the troops towards ki... Comment - Like
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Dec 1, 2011, 3:32 am
The last few years have been chaos for everyone and listening to the predictions for 2012 the economy is not exactly planning on bouncing back. So what do I think 2012 will bring us in the world of talent technology?
Social, mobile, acquisitions blah blah blah. We all know th... Comment - Like
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Nov 24, 2011, 5:01 pm
Please take the quick poll below as I'd like to get as much feedback as possible.
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Nov 24, 2011, 3:10 am
The job boards pretty much took the entire job advertising market from print in around 10 years. The social networks could take the market from the job boards in maybe half that time; so it is now the job boards market to lose. Here's a few things they could try to save it.
Become ... Comment - Like
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Nov 22, 2011, 3:33 am
Search hasn't changed but social has changed the game as far as advertising is concerned. But what do we men know anyway?
The thing is, search is a male thing. Like shopping we are very focused on what we want. If we want a pair of jeans, we go to a shop that we know sells the type... Comment - Like
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Nov 17, 2011, 4:15 am
(Photo courtesy of http://www.flickr.com/photos/patrick-smith-photography)
As a recruiter you have your coveted career site but you also have Pages; Facebook, Linkedin, Google+ and no doubt there will be more incarnations to follow. But as more "brands" push people to their Pages rather... Comment - Like
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Nov 16, 2011, 3:32 am
The rumour mill seems to be awash with what I am doing with Lumesse so here are the facts!
I have been working in the talent technology sector since 1999 and have been advising organisations on “how to do stuff” since 2003 but about a year ago I decided I wanted... Comment - Like
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Nov 15, 2011, 5:31 am
A picture says more than a few words so I'll leave it at that. RIP job boards, the end is nigh. Comment - Like
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Nov 1, 2011, 8:01 am
I had the pleasure of attending the IBM social business viewpoints meeting yesterday at the new IBM Forum location. Getting in required the use of my well worn passport and I somehow passed this first security stage with no questions. But having made my way up to the starship enterprise top deck I w... Comment - Like
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Oct 26, 2011, 4:03 am
What no LinkedIn? What no Twitter? What no Xing? What no Facebook? Well you won't be able to register with us then until you get one. I mean, we need your Klout score.
Of course you would never, ever, ever do such a thing. It is absolutely proposterous and open for so much trouble from the PC ... Comment - Like
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Oct 25, 2011, 3:16 am
Optimise your jobs and all will be well. Yet another fields of dreams but this time, it is a lot less likely they will come. There are simple facts that bebunk the job SEO sales pitch and plenty of evidence to back this one up!
First off, it IS important to get your jobs indexed by search engi... Comment - Like
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Oct 5, 2011, 7:48 am
(Image taken from Cloud Recruiting)
I am very mobile, so much so that I use my phone probably more than my laptop - to go online, send e-mail, find information, text my kids, do the Tesco shopping and more. I occasionally make phone calls as well. So although I use my mobile for pretty much ev... Comment - Like
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Oct 5, 2011, 3:33 am
Thing is, we probably all know this yet, when we talk talent communities of any kind we get all hot under the collar about the conversations, engagement, employer brand blah blah blah. But, we do actually need all these conversations to take place, photos to be uploaded, friends to be found because ... Comment - Like
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Sep 21, 2011, 2:49 am
Build it and they'll come. Will they? Will it work? Will anyone really care?
There is constantly so much debate about the talent community. Brave New Talent apparently advertise "Build a community in 10 minutes". But what is the point? 10 minutes, 10 days or 10 years does it ... Comment - Like
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Sep 14, 2011, 2:39 am
Why is it that there are still so many challenges in finding out where your great new hires came from?
There are more tracking tools than you can shake a stick at yet recruiters still struggle to measure the success of their hiring channels. The ATS can’t do it. The job board can’t do it. ... Comment - Like
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Sep 13, 2011, 2:41 am
You see them everywhere; even in the mirror dude. At the bar after their run or gym session or whatever it is they do to relax. But always in the bar. Unshaven. Favourite over worn t-shirt. Scruffy trainers. Baggy jeans. But they’re married so it doesn’t matter.
Somewhere amon... Comment - Like
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Sep 12, 2011, 6:40 am
So your CEO has a BHAG.
Chances are it includes the Internet, social, technology, maybe even the cloud.
But here’s the bigger question. Can your company adapt to the changes ahead? Or is your culture so engrained that it cannot handle change?
Of course I don’t mean you, it’s ... Comment - Like
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Sep 12, 2011, 2:51 am
Toffee or caramel. Does it really matter? In most cases it doesn’t which is what some bright spark in Costa product marketing thought. But try telling that to the kids - or the baristas!
Last season(!) they had the caramel crunch which was an ice/milk/caramel sauce drink all put ... Comment - Like
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Sep 9, 2011, 11:17 am
Over the last few months there have been a few posts and discussions about the value of your social media profile from a recruitment perspective. Most suggested it didn’t matter how well you connected you were. I disagree.
If you are highly ambitious you will want to work for a company with... Comment - Like
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Aug 17, 2011, 5:27 am
You see, when we first met it was all so much fun. Easy to do things together, uncomplicated, new. But then you started to change. Small things at first that I didn't really notice but then you became a little unreliable. You got lots of new friends. You sometimes didn't respond but lately it's got ... Comment - Like
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Aug 9, 2011, 8:13 am
Imagine for whatever reason you could no longer work in recruitment. Ever again. Or in fact whatever you currently do.
But on the upside you were given a full years salary to go and do something else. Even if you started at the bottom of your new trade you'd still get the same salary you curre... Comment - Like
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Aug 8, 2011, 8:59 am
Are our live's today a reflection of our past? Is our business in the second half of 2011 a reflection of our activities in the first half of 2011?
Today I sat in a new spot that had been created in my garden ( as per above picture) and took time to reflect on life and the busine... Comment - Like
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Jul 12, 2011, 8:27 am
The user interface (UI) and user experience (UX) is becoming more about simplicity; less is more, remove the clutter, focus on the important. Social has driven us in this direction. Myspace gave us the option to do what we wanted, Facebook tell us what we get. Look who's won that battle.
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Jul 5, 2011, 4:45 am
Badges, badges everywhere that make no sense to me?! Well actually they do really but are we not getting a little bit carried away with badges these days? Well, it has only just started. Or has it?
One aspect of gamification is recognition and in some cases the recognition i... Comment - Like
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Jul 4, 2011, 4:45 am
Probably one of the most heard phrases but what do people really mean by this? I have two recent experiences that highlight this to me.
Experience One
My oldest daughter wanted some more energy jelly beans (she's a swimmer) as I'd bought her some recently but now she wanted t... Comment - Like
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Jul 1, 2011, 5:58 am
On 24 September I will be taking part in the Great Gorilla run in London. Although I only have to run 7km I do have to be dressed as a gorilla! Why do it? Because there are only 720 gorillas left in the wild and it would be so sad to see them disappear off our planet.
So, I'm offering up some ... Comment - Like
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Jun 28, 2011, 11:33 am
We all have days when it all just seems to go wrong and trying to explain this to kids is never easy. Sometimes life ain't quite what you hoped for but at the end of the day, we are all trying our best to do the right thing. But kids don't always see it quite like this!
Now this bl... Comment - Like
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Jun 27, 2011, 3:52 am
I presented at The FIRM event last week and was talking about SEO for recruitment. You can see the full presentation on a previous post: SEO made easy (or not). I mentioned that I would like to say that I started my blog in 2006 knowing that by 2010 it would outperform many career sites and in some ... Comment - Like
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Jun 23, 2011, 7:50 am
In April I attended the Lumesse US summit supporting the launch of their re-brand from Steptone Solutions to Lumesse. The first day was very much about the journey they had taken from being part of Stepstone to becoming an independent business and how the Lumesse name came about. But I was there to ... Comment - Like
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Jun 22, 2011, 3:35 am
It really was only a matter of time before Jobpartners were acquired but is this such a sweet deal for Taleo or will they find out the hard way why Jobpartners stayed single for so long? They acquired Vurv what feels like eons ago and that was a difficult integration but Jobpartners is a very ... Comment - Like
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Jun 8, 2011, 3:37 am
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I know it sounds a bit unrealistic but could you imagine being HRD for a top football team like Manchester United and having to do top talent performance reviews? What would the conversations be like?
Listen Rio, a little shopping at lunchtime ... Comment - Like
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Jun 7, 2011, 6:19 am
Did I really say that? Call Linkedin a job board? Shame on me. Maybe they are a CV database as well? With some workflow and filtering capability? And a lot more on its way.
But so what if they are a job board. I had this debate a while ago and was told that Linkedin was NOT a job board. Beginn... Comment - Like
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Jun 7, 2011, 3:44 am
Interesting that Linkedin announce this yet to be confirmed game changing apply button so soon after their IPO. But is it a great idea, set to change the world of recuitment or is it just a bit of hype with little or no substance? Is it yet more of the post-IPO love affair where both parties m... Comment - Like
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Jun 6, 2011, 4:51 am
Like most people in recruitment whenever I read a good old fashioned newspaper or magazine I thumb through the jobs ads. Not because I am looking but just an old habit!
I saw a great sounding very senior job the other day and was drawn to the content as it was very well written. If it had been... Comment - Like
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Jun 1, 2011, 5:33 am
For more details or to get a free electronic copy for your Kindle, iPad/iPhone (plus any other e-reader) or even a PDF please go to www.lumesse.com/whomovedmytalent.
PLEASE NOTE: Free copies will only be available until August 2011. Comment - Like
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May 24, 2011, 10:30 am
You know you like me. I can tell the way you look at me with that little twinkle in your eye. Kind of longingly wondering how it would feel. Not necessarily for anything long term I realise but I know you want to at least find out.
Your friends took the plunge a while ago of course... Comment - Like
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May 19, 2011, 6:01 am
This week I've been in Austin, Texas attending the Lumesse US Summit. Apart from the fantastic weather, great food and wild, wild nightlife the Lumesse people in Austin put together a great few days. But, what happened and why was I there? Here's a little snippet on the theme of my little slot; my s... Comment - Like
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May 19, 2011, 4:25 am
I wrote recently about Google Panda and career site SEO and raised the issue of backlinks which is something Panda enjoys just as much if not more than great content. But what are they, how do you get them and why do they matter? I've tried to keep this simple!
There has of course... Comment - Like
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May 12, 2011, 6:40 am
So this week has seen the final days of Stepstone Solutions and the welcome of Lumesse. As you may know, I was in Luton for the offical launch of the new brand and it was of course a great day for all involved. But, what about the people at the sharp end? What did they really think?
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May 10, 2011, 12:31 pm
Today I have been at the offices of Lumesse in Luton having been invited in by Rob Symons MD UK & Ireland to find out more about their re-brand from the old Stepstone Solutions to the new and exciting Lumesse.
So what's it all about?
Here's what Rob told me.
"Stepston... Comment - Like
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Apr 27, 2011, 6:29 am
So what should an HRD do? Build their own team of In-house experts, outsource it entirely or let line managers use their own choice of recruitment agency?
But what do I know? I'm not a recruiter anymore am I? OK, I was once a great recruiter (modesty prevails) and pioneered master ... Comment - Like
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Apr 27, 2011, 3:52 am
Caffeine, Mayday, Panda..... what do all these Google search updates mean to recruitment?
Joking apart you can of course Google all of these terms but they are all ongoing improvements to how Google sorts and ranks content to improve the quality of their search results. Panda is ... Comment - Like
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