Minnesota Headhunter: Daily Twitter Notes

Sometimes the day does not all to do a blog post let alone write about things on my mind or hear about like economic, political, local news (sports too).

With Twitter, you at least get some of the flavor, a flash moment during the day, of what I am thinking about. You can follow during the day or see the digest below.

I do not include all "Tweets" where I am responding to someone else, might get confusing...

MN Headhunter on Twitter | May 20-17, 2008 (last one first, URL's added):

May 20, 2008

@JavaJunky went for a quick walk and saw a clear Minnesota evening and a near full moon
My over/under "suck" count during my presentation. A push at 6. 4 other words worse words that slipped out. 2 almosts. No one offended.
I admit my technology ineptitude and a reminder that the blog does this for me. How many minutes to create a RSS Feed for a career page?
Had a great conversation with John Sumser www.recruitingroadshow.com this evening. He is Obi Wan Kenobi and Don Ramer www.arbita.net is Yoda
LinkedIn customer service update, they had it fixed in 2.5 hours. Moved the group cap from 1,000 to 10,000. @sheldonschwartz gets a prize.
OK I think my rant is over, for now. Sorry, if I did not get that out I would have spontaneously combusted in the next few hours.
And then talk about the "War for Talent". Job boards are A tool not THE tool. This should be about creating relationships
Frankly I think most employers SUCK at the recruiting process and talk a big game but do little to make it better.
Hey @jjbuss, I am not speaking of just the job fair. I am painting a wide brush and accusing most every employer in their every day activity
@justingrammens The next Career Expo is September 16th, I think. Contact Tracy Dawson, tracy@expoexpertsllc.com
StarTribune Career Expo: Some good news economy wise. Sounds like more companies are attending job fairs in most regions of the country
StarTribune Career Expo: 35+ companies in attendance. Stories were from mostly unemployed in my job search presentation.
StarTribune Career Expo: Is not for their employees. This is a 4 time a year local company job fair for engineering, healthcare, and mgmt
StarTribune Career Expo: My ongoing internal conversation. Why do employers make it so hard on themsleves and candidates?
StarTribune Career Expo: Many of stories of poor customer service. Employers might want to consider the damage they do to brand and PR.
StarTribune Career Expo: Very disappointed in hearing what are clear cases of age discrimmination. Can't find people, won't hire older folks
StarTribune Career Expo: finally got to meet @slolee today who stopped by to see her father (hiring company) and then catch my presentation
Off to the StarTribune Career Expo. Feeling more talkative than usual, Uh Oh. Over/under on my use of the word "suck", I am going with 6.
My LinkedIn guess, 3 days. But maybe shorter because Jason's RecruitingBlogs.com site is well known and has a huge membership.
Clearly @sheldonschwartz and his 4 hours of LinkedIn ticket time has never dealt with LI. If correct, I will send a gift certificate.
LinkedIn Round 1: My email to customer service worked and I now have a help ticket. Anyone with an over/under on time to completion?
Ever tried using the LinkedIn customer service form? Nightmare. Maybe they should fire up their @linkedin They always seem to have issues.
Facebook webinar tomorrow. Jim Durbin will be on Hireability showing recruiters how to recruit on Facebook http://tinyurl.com/5u4o63

May 19, 2008

@fanchatter I signed up as MNHeadhunter. Will remember to go there next time.
Twins: Oh yeah, Twins Win.
Twins: YYYYYEEEESSSSSSS!!!!! Clark with a hit over center fielder.
Twins: Gomez with an infield hit. Young moves Gomez to 2nd. Lamb gets the intentional walk. 1st and 2nd. 1 out.
Twins: Korecky, this kid is having a good night. 3 up, 3 down. Twins up next.
Twins: Crap to the 12th we go...
Twins: Morneau strikes out. Nice pitch. Cuddyer up.
Twins: Mauer walks. Bases full. Morneau up to bat. 1 out.
Twins: Another single. 1st and 2nd. 1 out. I know some of you did not sign up for baseball play by play. Humor me.
Twins: Korecky the pitcher has to bat and he has not done so in almost 5 years. Gets a single.
Twins: Get out of a big jam in the 11th!!!
Minnesota Twins: I broke my Golden Rule, never turn the game off. They were losing, got distracted, they tied in the 9th. Now in the 11th.
@StevenRothberg I thought @jasonalba would like to know you once said you would Twitter 1 time day. You are in violation of your own rule.
Recruiters looking for an ATS? I have used Sendouts.com for years. Did a demo of JobDig Tracker today. Very impressed. Contact if interested
RecruitingBlogs.com LinkedIn group. For some reason group is frozen at 1,000. I think we broke LinkedIn!!!
RecruitingBlogs.com announces LinkedIn group. 7000+ Recruiters, let the feeding feenzy begin.
StarTribune Career Fair: Tomorrow, St. Paul RiverCentre. I speak from 1-2 pm. http://tinyurl.com/5b7c5w

May 18, 2008

Kenny Chesney wins Entertainer of the Year. Thanks everyone on his team. Then his parents for having sex all those years ago. Classic.
@dbrauer I send eyeballs to www.tcbmag.com and www.upsizemag.com but not the rest. I guess they do not want the traffic.
@marenhogan I thought it was a great post and anyone who goes 60 hours straight in Vegas has my respect. Mpls may not be as fun, but close.
Thank you for the link @dbrauer I see the Yahoo button but not a link to RSS feeds. Not always the brightest bulb on the tree. Is it hidden?
St Paul Pioneer Press | www.twincities.com: Do they not have RSS feeds for stories?
Country Music Awards: Watching, proof I like most any music performed live. Big fan of Kenny Chesney
New York Times: MSFT pitches collaborative deal with YHOO between their online advertising businesses, not a full takeover
Enjoyed many conversations with the now graduated college kids. Looking forward to tipping point when the day job grind gets old and no fun
Wally with the hard foul on KG. I bet Wally enjoyed that since they did not get along much with the Timberwolves. Fans chanting MVP, MVP.
Barnes & Noble, held the door open for a woman with her hands full. She says "thank you, no one does that anymore". When/why did we stop?
Silly, err, stupid Minnesota Legislators still do not have the budget done. tick, tick, tick. I say this every year, why is this so hard?

May 17, 2008

Saturday Night Live: I wasted 30 minutes waiting for John McCain. Who wrote that? Very lame.
New Kids on the Block coming to Minneapolis/St. Paul. Locusts and floods soon to follow.
Cullect.com, so easy a recruiter can do it.
www.twincitiesblogs.com spending some time adding new blogs and moving to new RSS Feed/aggregator from @cullect www.cullect.com
Star Tribune Minnesota Poll: Obama 51 McCain 38. Clinton 49 McCain 40. And the pundits say Minnesota is a swing state?
gold thing = gold thong (it just gets better and better)
ESPN: Jason Giambi of the Yankees says he wore gold thing to break slump. (speechless)
Preakness: Big Brown looks like the big deal. Do not remember the jockey using a whip. 3 weeks to the Belmont and possible Triple Crown.

Comments

We just beta launched some basic twitter job search tools. One just selects the field they are interested in and gets 1 tweet an hour with the highest paying job in the category for that day. To see an example twitter.com/startupjobs

would love your thoughts on how we could improve this.

cheers,
bill
workhound.co.uk

Posted by: william fischer | May 23, 2008 at 02:31 AM