Katharine Robinson is TheSourceress
This week I have been playing with Foursquare. Initially i was very wary of this young social network, mainly because I thought the people I followed on twitter were using it to spam me. I mean, it’s of no relevance to me if someone just became mayor of their sock drawer, or checked into Starbucks [...]
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A lot of folks have been asking me why I went to San Diego, what this sourcing melarky is and what it was that I won? I am going to do my best to answer those questions… Well, it might not always be apparent, but by trade I am a sourcer. What’s that then? Sourcing [...]
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First of all, what on earth is a Twestival? A Twestival is a charity event organised by the Twitter community. Twestival began back in September 2008 with one event in London to raise money for a homeless charity. I was lucky enough to be there and it was a great night. It was the first [...]
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This week has been more about Recruiting and Sourcing, with a little knitting thrown in for good measure Sourcing and Recruitment TruLondon II – Three Weeks To Go A little shameless promotion of the second Recruitment Unconference in London that I am once again attending as a ‘track leader’. What Social Recruiting is NOT By [...]
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I first wrote about The Recruiting Unconference last autumn before TruLondon’s inaugural run at the Barclays Tower in Canary Warf, London. This first event was hugely fun, informative and filled with opportunities. Bill Boorman (aka @BillBoorman) brings TruLondon back for its second outing on 17th/18th/19th February, this time at Twitter Job Search HQ in Soho. [...]
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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 [...]
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I wrote about Unconferences a few months ago, after attending Tweetcamp. I started to wonder if the recruitment industry was ready for something like that. After all – the social web has enormous potential for aiding the recruiting process. Up until now, events about online recruitment in the UK have still trudged you through eight [...]
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