Nicole Bodem

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Here are the materials:

- John Sumser’s Introduction and Presentation (Spiky and Flat)
- Jeff Kaye’s Presentation: Next Level Strategy for a Next Level Workplace
- Hank Stringer’s materials from Excellence in Search Relationships
- Dennis Smith’s delightful package Social Recruiting

Agenda:

Location:
University of Dallas College of Business
Graduate School of Management, Professional Development Center, Frisco Campus
7460 Warren Parkway
Frisco, TX 75034

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Maps

The event was made possible by the investment of several sponsors:

• Arbita, the Minneapolis based Internet Recruiting Powerhouse, is a staunch supporter who underwrites the Roadshows with cash, development and logistics support. There would be no Roadshow without them.
• The event was held on the wonderful campus of Main Sequence Technologies who produce the amazing PCRecruiter. They are sponsoring the next several Roadshows as well.
• Zoom Info is our partner in marketing as well as a committed sponsor of the Roadshows. Their tool gives Recruiters access to millions of passive candidates.
• Recruitingblogs.com is the official online community of the Recruiting Roadshow. Jason Davis’ sprawling community is a place for Recruiters to help each other.

Please take a moment to visit them and thank them for supporting these fre events.

 Content at the Cleveland Roadshow consisted of five modules. These links will take you to a pdf copy of the presentation materials,:

• The Introductions and Networking Exercise John Sumser Introduced the day. Marty Snyder welcomed the audience, delivering an eloquent presntation on the importance of community in Recruiting. Sumser ran a networking exercise that encouraged all the participants to interact with each other.
• Joel Cheesman opened the morning of presentations with marketing in a web 2.0 world. As you’d expect, Joel’s self-deprecating style was the gateway to a broad introduction to web 2.0 tools. The audience was delighted and energized as the consequence of Joel’s talk.
• Arbita’s CEO, Don Ramer, offered a talk on Internet Recruiting: Past, Present and Future. A mesmerizing speaker, Ramer worked the audience through  the implications of a proactive future where collaboration and interdependence define Recruiting.
• Trends in Background Checking was the subject of Jason Morris’ presentation. The world is changing and, according to JAson, background checking is ever more important.
• After Lunch, John Sumser closed the day with Multigenerational Recruiting, a discussion of demographic dynamics that are driving cultural change.

I’ll tell you more about Cleveland in the coming days.

Special Thanks to Matt Martone, the team at Yahoo and Ami Givertz

Isn’t that how it seems?

There are some pretty odd trends that amplify the problem.

• The percentage of jobs that require advanced education is going up. The percentage of North Americans who get advanced education is going down.
• In the face of a shortage, much recruiting focuses on the way a candidate looks rather than on performance. This is particularly true in intergenerational and interethnic recruiting.
• The education system continues to prepare students for jobs in factories. The video game companies do a better job of preparing them for work.
• Hiring based on credentials continues to vex both sides of the equation. Do you want someone with an accounting degree or someone who can do accounting? Credentials, which should be the last resort of a competent recruiter, are poor substitutes for a quality guarantee.
• Inflationary pressures are driving turnover. It’s being reported as an increase in the unemployment rate.
• The recession we are in is localized to housing and retail. Yet, companies with clear paths to increased growth and profitability are behaving like the recession is universal.

Now, more than ever, the most important piece of technology in your arsenal is between your ears.

Reality is never like that.

Reality is paradoxical, inconsistent, occasionally flat. It is rarely logical or reasonable. When reality resembles a great story, all of the BS detectors go off like car alarms after a small earthquake.

Seeing the future changes it.

Here are some of the pieces of the paradoxes. Notice the inconsistencies.

• There is a labor shortage.
• World population doubled twice in the past 50 years.
• Population is declining in the top 50 Industrialized countries.
• The population of the US will grow by 20% over the next 30 years.
• The nursing shortage is global.

Part of the trouble lies with the old fashioned need to generalize for global media markets. When you watch something like Crossfire or the Daily Show, you come away with the impression that National and Global trends are directly applicable to local conditions. It’s the same paradox as the “Strategic Plan / Reality” problem. Many things that can be generalized at a National or Global level fall apart in a local context.

Pundits have an easier time of it when they sound like a strategic plan. They are more successful if they can persuade you that reality is coherent. When their stories sizzle and swirl, their wallets fatten.

Change is definitely brewing. Today’s daily links on Recruiting.com emphasize ideas that are slightly out of the American mainstream. They seem to be coming our way. In a highly collaborative world, the hierarchy just doesn’t make very much sense.

John Sumser. – © 2008 Two Color Hat, Inc. Santa Rosa, CA

Language has not kept pace with the changes that come from and through technology.  The relentless marketing machine dumbs down experience in order to standardize terminology. It’s how strip mining works in cyberspace.

You might trace it back to the Clintons. Remember “Friends of Bill”? That was the term of endearment for the world’s largest (at the time) political Rolodex. Friends of Bill paid small fortunes to attend  Renaissance Weekends. Being a friend, in theis context, was more important than actually knowing Mr. Clinton.

Recently, I asked a fellow who I’ve met a couple of times, swapped email with a couple of times and am generally aware of in the industry to be my friend on Facebook.

He said:

Hey John,are we “friends” ?i know we “know” of each other virtually … but i was actually going to try and limit my facebook to people I actually converse with 1:1
wanna start that ?
 

I replied

I went to bed wondering about the same thing last night. I really value words/concepts like friend, network and community. They are getting sliced really thin. Community means mailing list. Network means database. Friend means record.I don’t particularly like it.Have you noticed, though, that there’s an interesting new category? I think of it as people who are aware of each other and should be friends?

If we needed to talk to each other, we just would. No intermediaries or networking required.

That’s what I meant when I sent you the invite on Facebook. We’ve known of each other a long time and would most likely pick up the phone if the other called. The difference is as simple as I’m responding to your concern rather than going “okay” and hitting the enter button.

That may be too thinly sliced for your tastes.

If I’m beyond your cutline, that makes perfect sense to me.

However you decide, it might be interesting for us to have a deeper conversation about the implications and limits of friendship online in various settings.

Is one setting different from another in Profound ways? (Can you have 89 Million connections on Linked in and 3 friends on Facebook with a straight face? Why?

Do the differences in setting make a difference in Recruiting technique, reach or research results?

Like that.

Thanks for provoking my thinking another notch and good luck.

What do you think?

John Sumser. – © 2008 Two Color Hat, Inc. Santa Rosa, CA

A network involves people who you can call to get things arranged. A network is a potentially collaborative web of connections and recommendations. A network is made of people with whom you have connection.

Facebook manages to give the feeling of intimacy and respect in a way that I have not seen in other online communities or social software toolsets. Somehow, the protocols of offline friendship are maintained and the feeling of closeness is fungible.

(I should note that my children are a little less than perfectly happy about my entre. I understand this to be a reflection of the dynamic I am trying to describe. Facebook manages to create a sense of home-iness. It cements networks with a feeling of immediacy.)

There are several interesting applications available to prospective employees. Steven Rothberg’s CollegeRecruiter.com has a number of applications including a search interface and a flow of the latest internships.

Ageneral search on the word “jobs” produces an enormous windfall of opportunity.

I am planning to get to know the Jobster application over the weekend.I

John Sumser. – © 2008 Two Color Hat, Inc. Santa Rosa, CA

The people on this list made 2007 memorable and interesting. Often, they are writers of blogs. Sometimes, they are industry figures. Some are family, some are friends and some are fellows of the road. Theuy all helped, in their way, to shape the roadshow and my adventures.

Thank you.

• Abigail Tremble for Recruiting As Master Problem Solvers
• Al Gore who warmed the audience up for me in Canada
• Alan Lee for Mastering the Art of the 4 B’s: Build, Buy, Borrow and Boost
• Auren Hoffman (Rapleaf) for continuing inspiration
• Ami Givertz, the creative source for the last half of 2007
• Anna Brekka (Kennedy) the embodiment of hospitality
• Art Koff old dog with new tricks
• Barbara Disco and Diego Chacon
• Bill Bargas Mr. Diversity.com willing to bet on the untested Roadshow
• Bill Krumbein firm hand on the shoulder
• Bill Vick ever growing center of the Recruiting Universe
• Brian Howlett zen as it art
• Bridget Sumser setting the pace for personal transformation
• Café Japan noodles for the soul, organic sushi
• Chad Sowash strength requires endurance
• Chris Russell the industry’s new energy source and this
• Colin Kingsbury constant correspondent
• Colleen Gildea foundational issues
• Dave Mendoza, bulldoza in a China shop, constant offers of support
• Dave Winer, constantly improving the visionary curmudgeon archetype. He is one of the few who can actually change an industry.
• David Hurst personally made the industry more competitive, envisioned the industry day
• David Manaster (ERE) early support of the Roadshow
• Denise Court, overseer of all thing Marketing at itzbig. The first charter underwriter of the Roadshow
• Dennis Smith Texas hospitality and spokesmodel for large families for hosting Dallas
• Don Ramer (Arbita) for providing a solid foundation in a time of change. He’s the backbone of the roadshow.
• Did I mention My friend Don Ramer?
• Doug Berg (hotgigs) for longstanding support of the Minneapolis network
• Doug Geinzer (RecruitingNevada) who is running the show in Los Vegas
• Doug Reis modeling musical independence
• Everyone at itzbig
• Frank Mulligan eternally gracious about our missed meeting in San Francisco
• Frank Speer (RCI) for logistics and love in Atlanta
• Gerry Crispin provider of routine inspiration
• Greg Garrison the best cold caller I know
• Hank Stringer inspirational even when hobbled (itzbig ger than you think)
• Heather Bussing for legal and less tangible support (Empire Law School)
• Heather Hamilton continues to define effective recruitment blogging
• Helen from CareerTV made the conversation interesting
• Ira Wolff really gets the Perfect Labor Storm (so should you)
• Janet Sun is the marketing genius at experience
• Jason Davis, Mr. Charisma
• Jason Goldberg for Recruiting.com and true hands-off management
• Jeff Hunter source of John Chaisson
• Jennifer Marcy graceful execution in a windstorm
• Jeremy Langhans on principle
• Jim Hammock, the rock, why I crave a red Porsche
• Jim Stroud, Mr Wonderful
• Joel Cheesman, Mr Neutral Charisma, industry workhorse
• John Bell (boxwood), who knew that the association world was so good for job boards
• John Chaisson constant source of inspiration
• John Tarrant zen mastering
• Jorrit Blok the two best meals of my life and an expanding horizon line
• Josh Kahn, Minneapolis could not happen without him
• Julian and Shannon
• Karen Mattonen need I say more
• Kate Sumser ever mellow in a sea of chaos, willing to immerse in Japan
• Kay Meckes
• Keith Robinson
• Ken Hedburg, tirelessly pushing the assessment window
• Kent Plunkett for the IPO
• Kevin Grossman, helping bring the industry into the 21st Century
• Kevin Strange, decades have improved him.
• Kris Leonard for a great time in Chicago (EMA)
• Krist Jake
• LinkedIn changed my way of thinking
• Mark Hornung, Mr. Employment Branding
• Martin Birnbach full momentum recruiting. He exudes charisma
• Martin Snyder smart support of Dallas and evangelist of roadshow things
• Matt Martone for this and everything else. Very early to Roadshow sponsorship
• Matt Payne, Jobster’s accounts receivable guru
• Maureen Sharib who is becoming a force of nature
• Michael Keleman, Mr. Anti-charisma, howooooo
• Michelle Riddle
• Mike Moore RCI made Atlanta possible
• Neal Bruce for a few well timed words of support
• Nicole “Wingman” St. Martin the heart of Minneapolis
• O Chame, Berkely’s best noodles and caramel balsamic gelato
• Paul DeBettinges for making Minneapolis manifest
• Peter Weddle, I still owe him a book
• R D Whitney the beating heart of Kennedy Information
• Ray Sumser who demonstrates the fact that quality is a product of quantity
• Rachel Howlett we need more female zen masters
• Rob McGovern doing it again in Atlanta
• Robby Macdonell seasoned technical hand holding
• Scott Dow mercurial and inspirational. He’s redefining recruiting
• Salary.com, growing like a weed
• Shally Steckerl relentless supporter of things Roadshow
• Simon Goddard Hot Jobs yoga god
• Steve Levy for repeated offers of support and a number of critical good laughs
• Steve Patterson for facilities and personal generosity
• Steven Rothberg tenacious, tenacious, tenacious
• Tad Goltra just getting started
• Tara King
• The Whole ERE Team we almost had an industry day. Thanks for trying so hard.
• Tim Driver vision and support
• Toby Dayton for inputs to Minneapolis and trend setting
• Vince Whitcomb harp in the zen band
• Yvonne LaRose
• ~John Sumser. – © 2007 Two Color Hat, Inc. Santa Rosa, CA