John Sumser Presents The Recruiting Roadshow » Recruiting http://www.recruitingroadshow.com Bringing Physical Community to Online Social Networks Tue, 19 May 2009 22:35:24 +0000 en hourly 1 Materials from the 2008 Dallas Recruiting Roadshow http://www.recruitingroadshow.com/2008/10/02/materials-from-the-2008-dallas-recruiting-roadshow/ http://www.recruitingroadshow.com/2008/10/02/materials-from-the-2008-dallas-recruiting-roadshow/#comments Thu, 02 Oct 2008 02:11:40 +0000 johnsumser http://recruitingroadshow.wordpress.com/?p=306 It’s been a whirlwind since the highly successful Dallas Roadshow Last week. The RecruiterGuy offers a great recap.

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

]]> http://www.recruitingroadshow.com/2008/10/02/materials-from-the-2008-dallas-recruiting-roadshow/feed/ 2 Thank You Notes http://www.recruitingroadshow.com/2007/12/21/thank-you-notes/ http://www.recruitingroadshow.com/2007/12/21/thank-you-notes/#comments Fri, 21 Dec 2007 18:20:02 +0000 johnsumser http://recruitingroadshow.wordpress.com/2007/12/21/thank-you-notes/ (December 21, 2007) There are a lot of people to thank for this past year. Starting and building the momentum of the Recruiting Roadshow took a lot of effort from a lot of people. Shifting from my comfortable home at interbiznet took support and energy. Bearing up under the new scrutiny at Recruiting.com took some patience and the muffling of two layers of duct tape.
A number of good friends fed me with a straws (through the tape) at the difficult times. It’s good to have and build friendship as a part of making a living. My work is colored by the people who nourish me with their stories about the recruiting world, their ideas about what it could be like and their hopes for bigger and better times.  
I’ve always been fortunate to have relationships with people who start companies. As an entrepreneur who thinks about strategy, it seems pretty normal to inhabit a world that mostly includes other leaders who build businesses for a living.
Over the years, I have seen a thousand good tricks for making things happen. This year, though, I may have been shown the ultimate trick. 
Steven Rothberg, you may know, is the hard working founder of CollegeRecruiter.com. Very, very few people in our industry work as hard or as persistently as Steven. Through sheer tenacity, he built CollegeRecruiter into the powerhouse it is today. Steven spoke at both the Dallas and Atlanta Recruiting Roadshows.
Somewhere along the line, Steven sent me a wonderful had written Thank You note. It was short, sweet and very thoughtful. I was astonished by the way it changed my perception.

As far as I can remember, it was the first time ever that I had received one. Writing thank you notes is part of the conventional wisdom about doing business. I assumed that it was theory from people with no experience until I got Steven’s note.

As you can see, I remember the note very clearly almost six months later.

Steven got me started. I’ve been following his lead and hand writing Thank You notes. What’s amazing is the effect it has on me.

Thank you, Steven.

John Sumser. – © 2007 Two Color Hat, Inc. Santa Rosa, CA

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Hot on the heels of the announcement that Facebook and Microsoft have been canoodling — and making good on my promise to get smarter about using Facebook made on Recruiting.com — here is a useful guide I hope other newbies might find helpful.

Josh Lowensohn who wrote the guide for Webware kicks-off:

What is Facebook and why should you use it?

Facebook is a social networking service that lets you connect with friends, co-workers, and others who share similar interests or who have common backgrounds. Many use it as a way to stay in touch after finishing school, or as a way to share their life publicly. What makes Facebook different from other social networks are its extensive privacy controls, its development platform, and its large and quickly growing user base. Facebook has been called the “thinking person’s” social network. Compared to many other social networks, Facebook gets new features and improvements on a regular basis.

Don’t get too comfortable. “Facebook gets new features and improvements on a regular basis” means don’t blink or you’ll log on one day and not know what to do or how to do it!

Just in case you’re hungry for more, from Robin Good there is Social Networking: A Beginner’s Guide To Facebook, another handy reference with some additional stuff to work through.

]]> http://www.recruitingroadshow.com/2007/10/26/newbies-guide-to-facebook/feed/ 0 Building Community, One Roadshow at a Time http://www.recruitingroadshow.com/2007/10/23/building-community-one-roadshow-at-a-time/ http://www.recruitingroadshow.com/2007/10/23/building-community-one-roadshow-at-a-time/#comments Tue, 23 Oct 2007 12:43:09 +0000 johnsumser http://recruitingroadshow.wordpress.com/2007/10/23/building-community-one-roadshow-at-a-time/ John Sumser's Dallas Recruiting Roadshow

There are number of announcements to make about John Sumser’s Dallas Recruiting Roadshow and quite a few posts following up on topics from Atlanta. That said the two most important messages for the day are these:

Important message number one: We will be trying out some new approaches for the Dallas event ranging from how we promote the day to the format and content for the happening on Tuesday, December 4, 2007.

While the experiment continues to test some theories about how best to bring physical community to social networks the underlying promise remains unchanged. The goal is to provide Dallas’ recruiters with a day of learning, networking and community in a way that helps that continue after some of us have left town.

Important message number one: Dennis Smith will be running the show! For those who may not know Dennis all that is about to change. Anyone who does know Dennis will know why!

Dennis is the driving force behind WirelessJobs.com where for years he has been busy “building wireless careers, one blogpost at a time,” — sometimes literally. He is a poster boy for artfully combining conversational marketing, social media with down-to-earth goodness. And , oh yes, and he was one of my teachers.

An ol’ time blogger and knock-your-socks-off recruiter, Dennis is well connected both online and on the ground in Dallas. Best of all, anyone who knows Dennis loves him.

So, who better than Dennis to run the show? Stay posted, there is a lot more to follow!

Posted by: Amitai Givertz

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I just picked this up from Forrester’s Charlene Li who — like Steven — knows what she’s talking about:

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And on the subject of demographics, here’s my two-cents on Second Life which also came up in Atlanta.

]]> http://www.recruitingroadshow.com/2007/10/21/big-brands-facebook-demographics-case-studies-best-practices/feed/ 0 Gassing Up http://www.recruitingroadshow.com/2007/10/20/gassing-up/ http://www.recruitingroadshow.com/2007/10/20/gassing-up/#comments Sat, 20 Oct 2007 23:16:05 +0000 johnsumser http://recruitingroadshow.wordpress.com/2007/10/20/gassing-up/ John Sumser's Recruiting RoadshowAs we gear up for the next Recruiting Roadshow in Dallas on Tuesday, December 4th, 2007 it is tempting to stay focused on the road ahead, not look back. But that’s not how it is.

By most estimates the Atlanta Recruiting Roadshow was a success. The people who turned up left with a variety of things that ran the gamut of positive impressions, affirmations and lessons learned, acquaintances made and friendship renewed.

That’s how it was meant to be and how it is hoped it can continue.

I cannot talk to most people’s experience when it comes to delivering the Recruiting Roadshow’s promise of “bringing physical community to social networks” but for those who I have spoken to I am told the day was a force multiplier for their networking efforts.

For me I can say that the value of this collaboration with John Sumser has been immense and continues to grow. My personal network has been enriched and expanded. I’m excited about the road ahead.

More, my whole view of the intrinsic value of networking – as well as the mechanics of it – is changing. I will be documenting that process as this journey progresses. Also, I will be exploring other aspects of networking that dovetail with the Recruiting Roadshow’s underlying theme of building physical community and enfranchising more local recruiters. So, stay posted for that and the continuing updates for Atlanta!

There were some great lessons learned for John and me as we sat back and weighed the Atlanta Recruiting Roadshow in the balance. As we move forward on the next leg of the tour we will be applying some of those lessons and further testing our assumptions. After all, it is an experiment.

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Illustrating some of the potential problems for recruiters Steven referenced an instance where instead of pulling his resume from out of his pocket a candidate pulled out a beer instead.

Virtual job interviews? Digital job fairs? It is confusing I know but perhaps this is the stuff that urban legends are made of…

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…it’s just so hard to tell!

Posted by: Amitai Givertz

]]> http://www.recruitingroadshow.com/2007/10/06/do-you-want-my-resume-how-about-a-beer/feed/ 3 Alan Lee’s Learning Track: Mastering the Art of the 4 B’s: Build, Buy, Borrow and Boost http://www.recruitingroadshow.com/2007/10/06/alan-lees-learning-track-mastering-the-art-of-the-4-b%e2%80%99s-build-buy-borrow-and-boost/ http://www.recruitingroadshow.com/2007/10/06/alan-lees-learning-track-mastering-the-art-of-the-4-b%e2%80%99s-build-buy-borrow-and-boost/#comments Sat, 06 Oct 2007 13:32:47 +0000 johnsumser http://recruitingroadshow.wordpress.com/2007/10/06/alan-lees-learning-track-mastering-the-art-of-the-4-b%e2%80%99s-build-buy-borrow-and-boost/ When we kicked-off the Atlanta Recruiting Roadshow Alan Lee was embarking on a journey of his own.

Facing the squeeze of the mortgage industry’s recent contractions Alan was looking for a step-up from his role as Senior Vice President of the Office of People & Culture and Chief Recruiting Officer for HomeBanc Mortgage Corporation. An exemplary leader, it didn’t take long for him to find it.

On the day Alan presented his learning track in his incarnation as the Director of Executive Search with Atlanta-based Talent Connections.  Even so, the content and substance was exactly similar to the presentation he gave me when we first met over lunch, the reason I hoped he would share his insights and experience when the Roadshow came to town.

Going through the presentation slides here and comparing them with the pocketful of illustrated napkins I first walked away with I realize that it hardly matters what your job title is or whose cuts your paycheck or if your message is a slick PowerPoint or a hurried scribble on the back of a paper towel.

It is who you are and what you know and what you choose to do with those things that put the “servant” in “leadership” for the likes of Alan. Focus on that — like Alan did — and you’ll eventually end up where you’re supposed to be. 

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Make sure you hook-up with Alan and his team when you can…

Talent Connections, LLC
602 Gettysburg Place
Atlanta, GA 30350
Cell:    404.664.5134
Office: 770.693.7889
AlanLee(at)TalentConnections.net

..and get networked with Alan on LinkedIn, or on his “other” website ForContractRecruiters.com, why not?

Posted by: Amitai Givertz

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In presenting his afternoon keynote Steven Rothberg had some distinct advantages over possible food-induced dozing:

  • Our Atlanta delegates were really hungry to learn about networking tools and recruiting issues, in the main brand new stuff to contrast with their mainstream practices and possible misconceptions about using social networks in their day-to-day jobs; and
  • Steven provided much food for thought but kept everyone asking for more. Not only that, Steven delivered his presentation with enough spice and wit to keep even possibly bland topics like background checking, compliance and source-of-hire metrics appetizing.

Here are Steven’s presentation slides…

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…although the real juice is in direct contact with him:

CollegeRecruiter.com
(800) 835-4988
Steven(at)CollegeRecruiter.com

You can also keep ahead of things by reading Steven’s blog or connected with him on LinkedIn. 

Posted by: Amitai Givertz

]]> http://www.recruitingroadshow.com/2007/10/05/steven-rothbergs-keynote-best-practices-for-using-facebook-myspace-and-other-social-networking-sites-for-recruiting/feed/ 2 Abigail Tremble’s Learning Track: Recruiting as Master Problem Solvers http://www.recruitingroadshow.com/2007/09/30/abigail-trembles-learning-track-recruiting-as-master-problem-solvers/ http://www.recruitingroadshow.com/2007/09/30/abigail-trembles-learning-track-recruiting-as-master-problem-solvers/#comments Sun, 30 Sep 2007 20:51:52 +0000 johnsumser http://recruitingroadshow.wordpress.com/2007/09/30/abigail-trembles-learning-track-recruiting-as-master-problem-solvers/ It seemed that everyone who went to Abigail Tremble’s workshop Recruiting as Master Problem Solvers came out with something more than an excited smile.

True to form I think, Abigail shared a process for understanding how to define the problem as a first step to being able to address it effectively, and a methodology for delivering quality results. That’s what Abigail does.

Here are the slides from Abigail’s session:

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If you have any questions then please contact Abigail…

SightWise Solutions
555 North Point Center East
Suite 400
Alpharetta, GA 30022
Recruiting: (678) 366-4360
Consulting: (678) 366-4361
abigail.tremble(at)sightwise.net

…or connect with her on LinkedIn.

Posted by: Amitai Givertz

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