Frank's Corner

When I hear of LinkedIn, Myspace, tweeter, Facebook and other alternate forms of recruiting I’m reminded of 10 years ago.

It was 1998.

Someone by the name of Barbara Ling popped up on the recruiting scene and without EVER having positioned or placed ONE CANDIDATE in her ENTIRE career she wrote the “Internet Recruiting Edge” as if she was Tom Neff or Gerard Roche. It sold like french fries on the boardwalk for a year or two.

Fascinated by all the hooplah and mesmerized by the possibility of finding all my candidates a few keystrokes away on the PC … I spoke with Barbara and was invited to attend a seminar of hers (I got the kit as a gift being as I was writing for several publications, news columns and running a web career portal at the time which I since sold).

While it was all quite entertaining … after hours of repeating her boolean search strings at the office – we found nothing but the flotsam and jetsam of recruiting. The Permanent job seekers and hoppers of the career world. Many of the names of these ‘low hanging fruit’ were familiar to us.

I tossed out the kit the following year or so and went back doing what had worked so well for so long and has been time-tested by all the greats of recruiting.

When you learn proper recruiting, as I did pre-internet age, those skills will work post-internet age as well.

Recruiting is about people and how you treat and interact with them.

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