Four Great Resources for HR and Recruiting Professionals

June 30, 2008 · Filed Under Slacking Off at Work 

While you are enjoying your patriotism fueled short week (at least in the US and Canada), here are a few networking resources to make your life easier. I am just a *tiny* bit biased about these but you’re just going to have to deal with it!

  • RecruitingBlogs.com - With almost 10,000 members, it has been great to see people use this resource so well. Jason Davis has done an outstanding job developing a community of cooperative, friendly people in an industry that is often seen as hypercompetitive and cut-throat.
  • HR Bloggers - A growing group of current and aspiring HR bloggers. Laurie Ruettimann of PunkRockHR put this group together and it is quickly expanding. HR is tough enough, we shouldn’t have to blog alone too, right?
  • HR Professionals - Put together by Gautam Ghosh, I just found this group of over 200 HR professionals. Not surprisingly, this group has a nice international flair but I’d love to see it grow a la RecruitingBlogs as well.
  • HRM Today - I am not hawking this because it is my website! Okay, I lie. Still, we’ve had a great response to our initial request for bloggers to participate. We are consistently getting two to three really great posts a day (and growing) from some really great bloggers including Alexandra Levit, Samrah Jamil, HR Minion, HR Wench, Mark Stelzner, James Morrissey, Laurie Ruettimann, Breanne Potter, Susanna Cesar Morton and (coming soon) Dan McCarthy. Great and aspiring to be great bloggers are always welcome (e-mail for more info: lance (at) hrmtoday (dot) com)

So if you are going to slack this week, slack on something that actually helps you and your career!

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5 Responses to “Four Great Resources for HR and Recruiting Professionals”

  1. HR Minion on June 30th, 2008 9:25 am

    How dare you insinuate that HR pros would slack this week! We are always very diligent and would never resort to reading or commenting on blog posts during the middle of our work day…Oops. Never mind. I was never here.

  2. Lance Haun on June 30th, 2008 10:53 am

    No! Never!

  3. Maurice on July 1st, 2008 9:51 am

    HRguy - About.com update their top 10 job boards list here:

    http://jobsearch.about.com/od/joblistings/tp/jobbanks.htm

    Do you think its nessecary to recruit from all of them? Which ones are the best to attract talent? Some are so expensive and some are aggregators so you end up on those anyway.

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