Do as I say…
So 12 days since blogging about me becoming the recruited, I haven’t blogged since then.
The bad part is that I haven’t kept up with blogging and then my database decided to die when I upgraded (but I did manage to fix it but it killed my scheduled posts). That, on top of general work and job seeking, has taken up a lot of time.
It shouldn’t matter though since blogging is good for your career and is even better when you’re job seeking.
So I just spent the last couple hours going through emails and answering them. You will see some of those coming through over the next week. Thanks all for your patience!
I am not writing this right now
As if there wasn’t enough evidence that I am not the most advanced technological mind in the world, I just figured out a couple months ago how to write posts for future posting.
Here is the deal, I am located here on the western coast of the US. Most of my readers reside at least two to nine time zones to the east of me. Most of my best thinking comes at night (after dinner), a time when almost all of my readers are asleep. So, I future date my post so that it is waiting for them in the morning. Same thing with the weekends. Nobody reads this on the weekend so I future date my post to Monday or even later if it isn’t topical.
Right now, I have about seven future posts (that aren’t about current news items) in my queue for the next month. I will intersperse that with more relevant news items throughout the coming weeks.
Your HR Guy was snubbed!
Update: All is well. My suspicion was correct. Jason Davis really does a great job with this and if you are interested in recruiting, recruitingblogs.com is where you should be.
I can’t believe it either. The Best Recruiting Blogs of 2007 results were released this week and there were a lot of great blogs on there. Three of my favorites were on there with Recruiting Animal, Xtra Cheezhead and Wireless Jobs winning their category. Another great blog, Gautum Ghosh won the category I was hoping to win (Best HR Blog). The results made sense to me as Gautum has been doing this for a bit longer than I have and he is much more prolific than I am. When I went through the final results though, this is what I found:
10. Best HR Blog
Gautam Ghosh: 17.6%, 68
HR Search Mktg: 16.6%, 64
CollegeRecruiter: 16.1%, 62
Your HR Guy: 15.8%, 61
The Hire Sense: 14.2%, 55
Your HR Guy: 10.9%, 42
One Louder: 8.8%, 34
I apparently made it on the ballot twice (who knows how that happened) and got 103 votes but not the victory. I e-mailed JD about it but no dice EDIT: he just e-mailed me and he is looking into it.
I feel a bit like Al Gore here. If that means I have to make a documentary and win an Oscar and a Peace Prize for my efforts in HR, then so be it. I am a brave soul.
In all seriousness though, thank you all for your readership. It is nice knowing that people enjoy something that I put a variable amount of effort into week in and week out. I will be celebrating my ad hoc victory by actually answering backlogged reader e-mails next week so you better get on it if you want your question answered.
Rejection hurts
Guess who isn’t a Top 100 HR blogger?
Me! (Who else would I be complaining about?)
Anyway, this list is a pretty good look at the amount of HR blogs out there. One notable omission (besides the unforgivable omission of yours truly) is any of the creations of Recruiting Animal. What gives bootstrapping person? You’ve got several blogs that haven’t updated for a month or more but no love for this goodness.
Anyway, I would add more of the one’s I haven’t heard of before but many of them don’t update even as regularly as I do. And I am definitely on the edge of acceptable blogging regularity.
Just as a reminder, some of my content is going to my Vault blog. And no, there isn’t an RSS feed yet but I am told it will be coming soon.
Experience.com provides information on internships and entry level jobs.
Wow, life happens quickly
I honestly can’t believe it has been 20 days since I posted last here. Sorry about the break but things have been a bit crazy lately and yadda yadda yadda. Glad to be back, I have a lot of pent up energy and things to talk about.
The first thing is that I am going to be doing some blogging on Vault.com now. It should be fun as they are really building out their blogging network. You will be able to see my posts on their site but I will always be posting here whenever I post a blog entry of interest there.
My first blog posts talks about Wal-Mart firing an employee for a MySpace bomb threat.
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