If you’ve seen Mel Gibson’s Braveheart, you might remember the line, "The problem with Scotland is that it’s full of Scots," or something like that.
When writing about online recruitment topics, I sometimes think, "The problem with the blogosphere is that it’s full of bloggers."
In other words, I wonder how many actual recruiters read recruiting blogs. Not just mine, but any of them.
There’s a lot of quality content and ideas being shared on many blogs and blog communities – a ton of helpful information that would help any recruiter do their job more efficiently and more intelligently.
But, is anyone listening?
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July 13th, 2005 at 1:32 pm
I agree – recruiting blogs are in their infancy in terms of developing an audience, but it will come.
At erexchange.com, we are working on how to better expose our existing audience of recruiters (the largest on the web) to the blogs that are hosted on our site.
July 15th, 2005 at 5:20 pm
I am the Director of HR & Recruiting of a technology/financial services firm and this is my first attempt at reading/writing and particpating in any sort of blog as my employer’s request. I guess I am listening but it appears that you need spend extensive time to find the useful creative stuff.
I am going into this with an open mind but….
July 15th, 2005 at 5:21 pm
I am the Director of HR & Recruiting of a technology/financial services firm and this is my first attempt at reading/writing and particpating in any sort of blog as my employer’s request. I guess I am listening but it appears that you need spend extensive time to find the useful creative stuff.
I am going into this with an open mind but….