Comments on: why doesn’t HR get search? http://www.cheezhead.com/2005/08/11/why-doesnt-hr-get-search/ Insight and opinion from the world of employment. Fri, 13 Nov 2009 04:01:22 -0700 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 hourly 1 By: Resourcing Strategies http://www.cheezhead.com/2005/08/11/why-doesnt-hr-get-search/comment-page-1/#comment-237 Resourcing Strategies Fri, 12 Aug 2005 16:45:35 +0000 http://www.cheezhead.com/2005/08/11/why-doesnt-hr-get-search/#comment-237 <strong>Search Engines and HR</strong> [Joel Cheeseman](http://cheesman.typepad.com/seo/), always one of my favourite bloggers, posted a great article - [why doesn't HR get search?](http://cheesman.typepad.com/seo/2005/08/why_doesnt_hr_g.html) I would like to add a few more reasons: 5... Search Engines and HR

[Joel Cheeseman](http://cheesman.typepad.com/seo/), always one of my favourite bloggers, posted a great article – [why doesn't HR get search?](http://cheesman.typepad.com/seo/2005/08/why_doesnt_hr_g.html)

I would like to add a few more reasons:

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]]> By: Catherine DaGrossa http://www.cheezhead.com/2005/08/11/why-doesnt-hr-get-search/comment-page-1/#comment-236 Catherine DaGrossa Thu, 11 Aug 2005 23:10:33 +0000 http://www.cheezhead.com/2005/08/11/why-doesnt-hr-get-search/#comment-236 The question is answered quite easily. There is a lack of Recruitment professionals that not only understand internet technologies but also that can then can "sell" the efficiencies of Internet technologies to the corporation. Peter Weddle summarized it well when he said, "There are thousands of recruiters using the Internet to source candidates, but precious few are using the medium to recruit them.” University of Pennsylvania refers to professionals that can bridge technology with funcational area expertise as "interlocketers". I first heard this term when I went to a meeting about the Executive Master's in Technology Management at Wharton. http://www.seas.upenn.edu/profprog/emtm/admissions.html. Recruitment and HR in general lacks these "Interlocketers" to drive this shift. The question is answered quite easily. There is a lack of Recruitment professionals that not only understand internet technologies but also that can then can “sell” the efficiencies of Internet technologies to the corporation.

Peter Weddle summarized it well when he said, “There are thousands of recruiters using the Internet to source candidates, but precious few are using the medium to recruit them.”

University of Pennsylvania refers to professionals that can bridge technology with funcational area expertise as “interlocketers”. I first heard this term when I went to a meeting about the Executive Master’s in Technology Management at Wharton. http://www.seas.upenn.edu/profprog/emtm/admissions.html.

Recruitment and HR in general lacks these “Interlocketers” to drive this shift.

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