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Hiring in the Age of Twitter
Networking
Written by Kathy Barton   
Wednesday, 01 April 2009 05:31
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In a past life at a company that shall remain nameless, an employee made the mistake of hitting "reply all" to a corporate announcement instead of forward. Her reply went, not to her close friend as she intended, but to the whole company. While embarrassing, this would not have been a career-limiting move except for the fact that the reply detailed her job search and her urgent desire to get out of her current (insert uncomplimentary adjective here) job.

This led to her dismissal, a highly controversial move, since she was well liked and very good at her job. The point of this article is not to debate the decision, but to simply say: we ain't seen nothing yet. The plethora of social media tools now available, from Facebook to MySpace to Twitter, has led to an extraordinary blending of personal and professional lives in a very public forum which too many people seem to think is private. The latest casualty of this trend is the unfortunate "Cisco Fatty," a candidate who left her interview at Cisco and sent out the following tweet: "Cisco just offered me a job! Now I have to weigh the utility of a fatty paycheck against the daily commute to San Jose and hating the work."
 
Networking Revisited and Some Caveats on Social Technology
Networking
Written by Lou Adler   
Friday, 05 November 2004 04:00
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"This is deja vu all over again!"
-Yogi Berra, circa 1965

A few years ago I wrote an article on the importance of using networking as a primary sourcing tool. The essence of the article can be boiled down into the following key principles:

 
The Anatomy of a Search, Part 2
Networking
Written by Lou Adler   
Friday, 06 August 2004 04:00
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We've just finished the first week of our search for a Director/VP Operations for a $300 million medical services company. I'll be documenting the results of this search over the next few weeks. The overall project plan and how we got the business and prepared the performance profile were summarized in the kick-off article. This week, we prepared the sourcing plan and began our advertising and networking program.
 
The Anatomy of a Search
Networking
Written by Lou Adler   
Friday, 30 July 2004 04:00
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This is a reality article series. Over the next few weeks, I'll document an actual retained search we've just received for a VP of operations for a $300 million medical services company. Our goal is to start presenting candidates within two weeks.

 
Networking Semi-Candidates
Networking
Written by Lou Adler   
Friday, 22 August 2003 04:00
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As many of you know, I advocate (and use) a policy of sourcing that emphasizes semi-candidates. Semi-candidates are either semi-active candidates who look on the job boards infrequently; or semi-passive candidates who don't look at all, but want a recruiter to call.