Archives for: December 2011
Goodbye 2011

After celebrating the holidays, Guido gets bored and decides to pass the time by making fun of Jim Stroud. Special thanks to Jason Bax of Business Unusual! (http://businessunusual.net) Related PostsGoodbye to a quiet legend…MBAs make more money than PhDsSeniors, kiss those benefits goodbyeThank you HCI!The Week In Recruiting (Reading the blogs, so you don’t have to…)    Send article as [...]

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Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year!

Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year! In this Christmas Special, Jim Stroud remembers previous Christmases and ponders what is really important. Special thanks to the Stroud Family for pitching in on this episode. DO THIS NOW! Subscribe to The Jim Stroud Show Follow Jim Stroud on Twitter Connect with Jim Stroud on Linkedin Connect with Jim Stroud on Google [...]

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How To Make Video Job Descriptions (and why you should be producing your own)

How to make video job descriptions (and why you should be producing your own) is the topic when Jim Stroud interviews Will Staney of VMware and investigates how they are successfully using video job descriptions to recruit active and passive candidates online. If you are not using video job descriptions in your recruitment strategy, no doubt you will consider it [...]

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Enjoy The Office Christmas Party – Follow These 10 Top Tips

Having worked hard all year, the time has come to let off steam and enjoy ourselves at the office Christmas party. Although it is the season to be jolly, some of us ordinarily rational individuals are inclined to take things just a bit too far by downing vast amounts of alcohol, flirting outrageously with the management and frolicking with gay [...]

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Facebook Jobs vs LinkedIn Jobs (Which is better?)

Facebook or LinkedIn? Which is better to recruit with, my dear? When it comes to advertising, Twitter says you can have it your way. How is this for a cool recruiting strategy? Solve an online puzzle and you get to apply for a spy job for the British government. All this, plus Jim Stroud goes hip hop, if only for [...]

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Does your company have a mobile recruiting strategy? [video]

Jim Stroud chats with Michael Marlatt about mobile recruiting. Specifically, they discussed companies sending text messages to passive candidates. The photographs in the show were taken by Stephen Renney. Download the show notes: http://www.scribd.com/doc/74396806 Related PostsHow To: Location Based Mobile RecruitingMobile Recruiting & Social RecruitingIDC Predicts the Number of Worldwide Mobile Workers to Reach 1 Billion by 2011Mobile Recruiting 101: [...]

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