Welcome to the Recruiter Carnival!

Welcome to the Recruiter Carnival! I agreed to host a blog carnival today but I did a really bad job promoting it! So, hopefully the following bloggers are cool with me pulling in some of my favorite links. Im only going to do five because my last carnival had way too much reading, plus I have a business to run and a book to sell! Heres the first carnival and today, at JibberJobber, is the second carnival! These are some of my favorite posts John Reinke is one of my favorite off-topic bloggers he is smart and unafraid to say what he thinks. His post about the recruiter from Hell makes me laugh, my worst recruiter was never that bad, but Im sure there are punks out there with complete and utter disrespect for the anxious, hungry job seeker! Read about his experience here. (John, by the way, is the only person that reacted to my quiet call for posts for this carnival thanks John!!) Carl Chapman wrote So how did you think I got to be a recruiter? last November, and explains his very interesting story. I love this post because it helps remind that, for all the no-call-backs, no-e-mails, and all that other stuff we endure when we are desperately looking for help in a job search, recruiters are human too. They arent our silver bullets, and they arent our whipping boys (and girls) and sure there are things that are broken and that suck about the process, but they are human. And they deserve our respect. Harry Joiner got kicked off of Facebook, probably because hes a no-good, degrade-the-quality-of-our-network recruiter. He did nothing wrong, really. Well, he only did what Facebook designed into the system, which was upload his Gmail address book and invite his contacts. Over 4,000 contacts. FB got ticked and kicked him out, for using the tools they made. Harry wasnt aware he was doing something wrong. But they kicked him out. Heres the kicker. Harry is one of the more popular recruiters that I know. He has a super-strong network, and is connected to a lot of bloggers (and non-bloggers). He got slapped in the face and wondered what the heck went wrong so he went to his network. Bottom line: Keith Ferrazzi says that recruiters are power connectors. Two lessons here: 1. dont offend a power connector. 2. Try and network (and build a relationship with) a power connector! If you can help a recruiter NOW, when you dont need it, imagine how they will help YOU when you do need it! So now we know recruiters are human, and they are connected, and they can be absolutely rude. Ill tell you what, when you are looking for a recruiter to develop a relationship with, the one that you dont turn requests down from, you want to find a smart one. This will vary depending on what your profession/industry is, but let me give you an excellent example of a recruiter who is very smart in his space: Rob Merrill. How do I know? His blog drips of IT geekness. It may be a turnoff for the non-techie but guess what, Rob is developing relationships with techies. And when they can come see that he knows something about design (like calling LinkedIn out on bad design) or marketing and personal development (like getting excited that Guy Kawasaki is coming to Utah, and tickets are only $10!!!), or something as techie and abstract as the hCard format, you know he is going to be seen not as the clueless tech recruiters, but as a guy who knows his stuff. All recruiters can blog if th ey can do it like Rob does. Dave Lefkow further proves that recruiters are human. How human? So human that there is turnover in recruiting. He was a recruiter until last month when he invented Bacon Salt (you gotta read about it here), and sales took off to the point where he decided to move on and, well, push fake bacon! Dave, best wishes to you as you try out this new venture! If nothing else its a great experience! For the rest of us, its a good reminder that aside from pushing papers around, calling people to only hear NO! and doing all that other recruiter stuff, they have a life, with dreams and ambitions, just like we do! Recruiters are ultra-clever, and always on the lookout for new tools. Jim Stroud shows us non-recruiters what one of the common problems are, and how they are handled (this post is about Sullr, something useful for you when you dont recognize a caller ID number). Yep, recruiters have problems and challenges and are astutely looking for solutions. Just like the rest of us. Okay, so this is sappier than I meant it to be I wanted stories (good or bad) or your recruiter experiences but since I didnt advertise you are stuck with links to things that show that recruiters are human, too Pursuing a home based business opportunity is not worth the effort if you see imminent loans or mortgages right in the beginning. Granted, that personal loans are oft involved during startup, but in limits only. One should first have a look at the free insurance quotes before going ahead with the deal. Prevention is always better then looking for an effective debt management solution. Welcome to the Recruiter Carnival! I agreed to host a blog carnival today but I did a really bad job promoting it! So, hopefully the following bloggers are cool with me pulling in some of my favorite links. Im only going to do five because my last carnival had way too much reading, plus I have a business to run and a book to sell! Heres the first carnival and today, at JibberJobber, is the second carnival! These are some of my favorite posts John Reinke is one of my favorite off-topic bloggers he is smart and unafraid to say what he thinks. His post about the recruiter from Hell makes me laugh, my worst recruiter was never that bad, but Im sure there are punks out there with complete and utter disrespect for the anxious, hungry job seeker! Read about his experience here. (John, by the way, is the only person that reacted to my quiet call for posts for this carnival thanks John!!) Carl Chapman wrote So how did you think I got to be a recruiter? last November, and explains his very interesting story. I love this post because it helps remind that, for all the no-call-backs, no-e-mails, and all that other stuff we endure when we are desperately looking for help in a job search, recruiters are human too. They arent our silver bullets, and they arent our whipping boys (and girls) and sure there are things that are broken and that suck about the process, but they are human. And they deserve our respect. Harry Joiner got kicked off of Facebook, probably because hes a no-good, degrade-the-quality-of-our-network recruiter. He did nothing wrong, really. Well, he only did what Facebook designed into the system, which was upload his Gmail address book and invite his contacts. Over 4,000 contacts. FB got ticked and kicked him out, for using the tools they made. Harry wasnt aware he was doing something wrong. But they kicked him out. Heres the kicker. Harry is one of the more popular recruiters that I know. He has a super-strong network, and is connected to a lot of bloggers (and non-bloggers). He got slapped in the face and wondered what the heck went wrong so he went to his network. Bottom line: Keith Ferrazzi says that recruiters are power connectors. Two lessons here: 1. dont offend a power connector. 2. Try and network (and build a relationship with) a power connector! If you can help a recruiter NOW, when you dont need it, imagine how they will help YOU when you do need it! So now we know recruiters are human, and they are connected, and they can be absolutely rude. Ill tell you what, when you are looking for a recruiter to develop a relationship with, the one that you dont turn requests down from, you want to find a smart one. This will vary depending on what your profession/industry is, but let me give you an excellent example of a recruiter who is very smart in his space: Rob Merrill. How do I know? His blog drips of IT geekness. It may be a turnoff for the non-techie but guess what, Rob is developing relationships with techies. And when they can come see that he knows something about design (like calling LinkedIn out on bad design) or marketing and personal development (like getting excited that Guy Kawasaki is coming to Utah, and tickets are only $10!!!), or something as techie and abstract as the hCard format, you know he is going to be seen not as the clueless tech recruiters, but as a guy who knows his stuff. All recruiters can blog if th ey can do it like Rob does. Dave Lefkow further proves that recruiters are human. How human? So human that there is turnover in recruiting. He was a recruiter until last month when he invented Bacon Salt (you gotta read about it here), and sales took off to the point where he decided to move on and, well, push fake bacon! Dave, best wishes to you as you try out this new venture! If nothing else its a great experience! For the rest of us, its a good reminder that aside from pushing papers around, calling people to only hear NO! and doing all that other recruiter stuff, they have a life, with dreams and ambitions, just like we do! Recruiters are ultra-clever, and always on the lookout for new tools. Jim Stroud shows us non-recruiters what one of the common problems are, and how they are handled (this post is about Sullr, something useful for you when you dont recognize a caller ID number). Yep, recruiters have problems and challenges and are astutely looking for solutions. Just like the rest of us. Okay, so this is sappier than I meant it to be I wanted stories (good or bad) or your recruiter experiences but since I didnt advertise you are stuck with links to things that show that recruiters are human, too Pursuing a home based business opportunity is not worth the effort if you see imminent loans or mortgages right in the beginning. Granted, that personal loans are oft involved during startup, but in limits only. One should first have a look at the free insurance quotes before going ahead with the deal. Prevention is always better then looking for an effective debt management solution.