VIDEO - "The World's Greatest Salesperson" Ogilvy Recruitment

CREATIVE - Development Process "Less Talk More Rock"

Brandflakesforbreakfast.com made a post on March 25th linking to a post/discussion on the creative process of video game development. Yes it is specifically about video games but I believe there are aspects that could easily be applied to any creative process. It discusses how often there is an idea conception stage, a planing/development stage and an execution stage. They then diver into what would happen if you flipped the second and third stage and just dive right into the execution of the idea without all the extra hands getting involved in the project to water down the original concept.
It is an interesting perspective and though I don't completely support the viewpoint there are aspects of it that warrant taking into consideration in the aspect of developing a recruitment advertising campaign.
Check out the article at:
http://www.boingboing.net/features/morerock.html

SOCIAL MEDIA - Facebook, Twitter, MySpace, LinkedIn … Somebody Stop the Music! - ERE.net

There is a great article on ERE.net today that talks about the steps and how they are managed towards having a company start into social networking. They cover time, understanding, preparation, show-and-tell and evaluation.

http://www.ere.net/2010/03/25/facebook-twitter-myspace-linkedin-%e2%80%a6-somebody-stop-the-music/

NONTRADITIONAL - Twitter Recruitment Tool Launched at SXSW

The tool comes as a result of the new ability to geotage your tweets. Right now it is just available for the USA.

Users can track down where Twitter employees are at SXSW and talk to them about a job at Twitter. Your thoughts on this approach?

http://thenextweb.com/location/2010/03/13/twitter-launches-sxsw-recruitmentstalking-tool/

PRINT - MTV's "Kick-Ass" Recruitment Posters

Although they are not real recruitment posters I thought I would pass these on.

The posters are available at this years SXSW.

via: http://www.collider.com/2010/03/15/three-kick-ass-recruitment-posters-for-kick-ass/

PRINT - London Ambulance Service

I stumbled across this through Google. It is for the London Ambulance Service. It certainly shows a difference you might see between what you hear at your current job and what you might experience with them.

What are you recruiting for right now and what do they encounter out of the norm in their day to day life? What makes this position so different from others? Keep that in mind when you work up your ads. It is not just the company you can differentiate but what candidates gain from the position at your company.

VIDEO - Scrolling Text Ads

This is one of the newest videos produced by Dorling Kindersley Books. It makes a nice statement about how print is still alive.
via: brandflakesforbreakfast.com

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