Katharine Robinson is TheSourceress
When I got my first job with a recruitment company I remember it being pointed out that our business was a lot harder than many others because we were selling a product that had emotions, a mind of its own and could get up and walk away at the drop of a hat. Just like [...]
{ 2 comments }
UK4Business were brought to my attention by my Dad. He had received an email offering ‘LinkedIn for Business’ training to his company and had decided to consider the idea for his sales people. Knowing that I use LinkedIn as part of my job and regularly train recruiters to use it, he wanted to ask me [...]
{ 1 comment }
Recent adventures on Empire Avenue have left me thinking about why I use various social sites. The more Eaves I earn on Empire Avenue, the more investments I can make and the more people I can then connect to. That is what will make the site useful to me in the long term. At this [...]
{ 2 comments }
{EAV_BLOG_VER:b864c0af18ce0675} This code should let me add this blog to my Empire Avenue profile. What’s Empire Avenue then? Empire Avenue is the Social Media Exchange: When you sign up you are given some Eaves (the virtual currency of Empire Avenue) in order to invest in the “social worth” of others and grow your own. Your [...]
{ 1 comment }
I have seen a lot written about publishing ALL your Twitter updates to LinkedIn and how much it gets on everybody’s nerves. All those hashtags and retweets on the LinkedIn homepage must be really confusing to a non-Twitter user. What about the other side of the coin, do ALL your Twitter updates come via LinkedIn? [...]
{ 1 comment }
I think what I was really trying to say at SourceCon last week was that when you stop thinking of online and offline activity as separate, magical things can happen. Real World Sourcing View more presentations from beeshields. When you meet the people you have known online for a while in real life, it is so [...]
{ 2 comments }
There has been a lot of speculation and debate in the Recruitment community of late as to whether or not Job Boards are dead. Today I tuned in to Bill Boorman’s radio show Ready for Lift Off on Blog Talk Radio where the answer was a resounding “No”. In my opinion, the spread of free [...]
{ 6 comments }
