Comments on: Recruitment 2.0 doesn’t exist – yet http://www.debaillon.com/2009/06/recruitment-20-doesnt-exist-yet/ Thierry de Baillon 's random thoughts about the crossing between branding, web and social media marketing. Réflexions autour du branding, du web et des médias sociaux. Mon, 26 Jul 2010 07:18:26 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 By: Thierry http://www.debaillon.com/2009/06/recruitment-20-doesnt-exist-yet/comment-page-1/#comment-796 Thierry Tue, 07 Jul 2009 14:22:05 +0000 http://www.debaillon.com/?p=276#comment-796 Cindy, thanks for your perception. Words themselves tend to have different meanings, depending on the era or the culture they are applied to. "Professional" had a nice degree of creativity in it during the seventies, and has now a lot of formal requirements. Things will change again, of course, but much faster in the wild outside online world than in the corporate universe. Recruitment usually reflects more what companies think they need than how they could use people at their best, and the gap still widens... Cindy,
thanks for your perception. Words themselves tend to have different meanings, depending on the era or the culture they are applied to. “Professional” had a nice degree of creativity in it during the seventies, and has now a lot of formal requirements. Things will change again, of course, but much faster in the wild outside online world than in the corporate universe. Recruitment usually reflects more what companies think they need than how they could use people at their best, and the gap still widens…

]]> By: Cindy King http://www.debaillon.com/2009/06/recruitment-20-doesnt-exist-yet/comment-page-1/#comment-792 Cindy King Thu, 02 Jul 2009 16:15:23 +0000 http://www.debaillon.com/?p=276#comment-792 It's true I've read quite a few interesting articles on this. Including the recent article on The Brand Builder than I found through your Twitter feed on "Is Your Social Media Director Qualified?" http://thebrandbuilder.wordpress.com/2009/07/01/is-your-social-media-director-qualified/ Reading your article here, made me think of the decisions I had to make when I first started blogging. I was forged in the corporate world - this gave me my professionalism today. Last year, I often got successful 50 year old white males approaching me out of the blue, "advising" me to make my personal blog "more professional". Now there were several things going on in my mind. The top one being that I did not want a stereotyped American style blog like most of the blogs I saw last year. I wanted my blog to show that I was not American. And, if possible, gently stimulate curiosity for something outside of my readers normal environment. So in a way, I had traits of the teenagers you described. It was only after I understood what social media was, that I was happy I went through my rebellion. I did not listen to the "advice" offered to me last year. My blog is about me, with my hair let down. There is authenticity, you can see what I'm good at and what I'm not. And you need authenticity to be successful online. The reason why I'm writing now, is I wonder just how "formal" or "professional" you are expected to be when recruiters come online. Just like the comments in The Brand Builder article mentioned above, I think there is a real need to educate the people hiring online. They probably need to adjust the qualities they are looking for if they want online success... and by then I hope that most of the young ones today will not be handicapped by the traces of their youth they leave online. On a side note, it has always fascinated me to notice the cultural differences in what is acceptable or not in certain professions in different countries - the differences can be huge! Living in France I wonder if this will play a role in online success compared to different countries. It’s true I’ve read quite a few interesting articles on this. Including the recent article on The Brand Builder than I found through your Twitter feed on “Is Your Social Media Director Qualified?”

http://thebrandbuilder.wordpress.com/2009/07/01/is-your-social-media-director-qualified/

Reading your article here, made me think of the decisions I had to make when I first started blogging. I was forged in the corporate world – this gave me my professionalism today.

Last year, I often got successful 50 year old white males approaching me out of the blue, “advising” me to make my personal blog “more professional”. Now there were several things going on in my mind.

The top one being that I did not want a stereotyped American style blog like most of the blogs I saw last year. I wanted my blog to show that I was not American. And, if possible, gently stimulate curiosity for something outside of my readers normal environment. So in a way, I had traits of the teenagers you described.

It was only after I understood what social media was, that I was happy I went through my rebellion. I did not listen to the “advice” offered to me last year. My blog is about me, with my hair let down. There is authenticity, you can see what I’m good at and what I’m not. And you need authenticity to be successful online.

The reason why I’m writing now, is I wonder just how “formal” or “professional” you are expected to be when recruiters come online.

Just like the comments in The Brand Builder article mentioned above, I think there is a real need to educate the people hiring online. They probably need to adjust the qualities they are looking for if they want online success… and by then I hope that most of the young ones today will not be handicapped by the traces of their youth they leave online.

On a side note, it has always fascinated me to notice the cultural differences in what is acceptable or not in certain professions in different countries – the differences can be huge! Living in France I wonder if this will play a role in online success compared to different countries.

]]> By: Katrina Collier http://www.debaillon.com/2009/06/recruitment-20-doesnt-exist-yet/comment-page-1/#comment-787 Katrina Collier Tue, 23 Jun 2009 18:57:35 +0000 http://www.debaillon.com/?p=276#comment-787 Wise words. Wise words.

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