recruiting

We're here for business development managers, business unit heads, team leaders, project heads, and managers whose work depends on reaching across silos or through an extended enterprise of suppliers and customers. With business social networking software - managers and employees now have a system for connecting informal interactions and discovering new information flows.

Business development idea - the growing market for business social networking software and community solutions as a new communications tool. That's right. Email is dying and knowledge workers really want to work together - collaborate - to get their work done.

From IBM, "IBM and The University of Arizona Bring Web 2.0 and Social Networking to the Classroom ".

Trends in social networking. 

From the NY Times, 

"Jobs Search Process Frustrates Many Young Recruits"

This is from an article in the Washington post on federal job recruitment. 

"To learn what is right and wrong about federal recruiting, listen to young people."

"Rethinking the Value of Talent," Strateg+Business

Replacing retirees and recruiting new talent will impact every business as well as every government agency. I wonder what these organizations are using to capture the deep smarts of retirees?

Open source, like the blogosphere, is a grassroots (bottom up) movement. Try not to let the grassroots lull you into believing that it is about one or two people with an idea or cause.

A Company Is Known By The People It Keeps, businesspundit - "Knowledge work should not be modeled after manufacturing work. Too many managers still don't get that." With social media technologies making it easier for anyone to publish their thoughts, ideas, etc.