Recruiting and HR blogs essentially perform two functions, Community Building and Branding. In community building, they essentially act as a central communications point which a recruiter might use to advertise, who/what they are looking for. The more information a recruiter shares about what is going on with an employer, the more likely a potential candidate may stumble upon it and or go to the Blog as a resource place. A secondary function of recruiting blogs is to put a personal face on what is frequently an impersonal function, governed by eCommunications and Voice Mail.
Blogs don’t get you a job and they don’t hire you. They tell you about jobs and employers.
Jobs work best when they target a narrow specific community. So for example, if I said I want to target Hispanic High Tech professionals who have a Bachelor’s degree or better, and must have worked at least 5 years in the high tech community, then I would be talking to many people who the Hispanic Net community wants to address. This could work.
So for the future, if you are one of these people I am talking about, a HISPANIC professional engineer, sales person or marketer, with a BSEE/CS or related degree, and at least 5 years working experience in high tech, then I am talking to the right people. I want to know who you are, who you think is a good employer for Hispanic people, who is looking to fill a job with a Hispanic, and who you think are good people to fill these jobs. Collect yourselves around me, and let’s do something for us!
BTW, I forgot to mention that I know 100's of recruiters, staffing professionals and HR folks in the Silicon Valley. If my network can help you, hook up with me in LinkedIn.
Saludos! jd
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A list of some of the most popular recruiting and HR blogs, the world’s best cure for insomnia!
2. About HR
5. Advanced Online Recruiting Techniques
6. Advebtures of a Detailed Recruiter
7. Amitai Givertz Recruitomatic
8. Andrew's Strategic Resourcing Blog
9. The Art and Science of Tech Sales
13. Being Bold
14. Bells & Whistles
15. Beyond HR
16. Beyond the ATS
17. Blog for Jobs
18. Blog Indeed
19. BlogERP
20. Blogger-Jobs.com
24. Bogle's Blog
27. Brain Storm
29. Brazen Careerist
31. Breaking HR News
32. Business Pundit
36. Career Hub
37. CareerCowboy
38. CareerFood
39. CareerJournal
40. CareerMetasearch CEO Jason Gorham
42. Carve
44. CATS Applicant Tracking System
45. Cenek Report
47. CFO Coach
48. Changing Reality on the NET
50. cheezhead
55. Computerworld
56. Confessions of a Military Recruiter
57. Confessions of an executive restaurant recruiter
58. Contingent Workforce – www.contingentworkforce.org
60. CRM Mastery
61. Cybersleuthing
62. Daily Ablution
64. David Kippen
66. DC Recruiting
68. Diggings
73. Dumb Little Man
74. EASI Blog
75. E-Cruit Blog
76. eHRMS
77. Email Marketing
78. Emblog – http://dijest.com/emblog/
83. Emurse
84. ERE Articles
85. ERE Blogs
88. EXCELER8ion
90. Frank Mulligan (Our MAn In China)
91. Fresh Meat
94. Future of Work
95. Gautam Ghosh on Management
96. Generations@Work
98. GoJobby Blog
99. good to know
100. Google: http://www.cabochon.com/~stevey/blog-rants/index.html
101. GoodRecruits
103. Hank and Rusty
104. Heather's "Marketing at Microsoft" Blog
105. Hire Calling
106. Hire Sense
107. Hire Strategies
108. HireAbility
109. HireBlog
110. Hire Calling
111. HireVue
112. Hiring Rainmakers
113. Hiring Revolution
115. Homunculus
116. Honest Recruiter
117. Horseshoes and Hand Grenades
118. How to Get a Job
119. HR Blog
121. HR IQ
122. HR Lori
123. HR Technology Discussion Board
124. HR Thoughts
125. HRmarketer
126. HRMDirect Blog
127. HRMetrics
128. HR's Brand New Experience
129. HRTechBlog
130. HRTests
131. HRXML Blog
132. Human Capital and Technology Blog
133. Human Capitalist
134. Human Resources Blog
135. Hunt Scanlon
136. I'll think of something better to call this soon
137. Impinj Blog
138. Inside Recruiting
139. Internet Recruiting
141. IT Recruiter
142. it's ALL about the experience
143. It's the Recruiting, Stupid!
144. Itzbig
145. Jeremy Langhans
146. JibberJobber
147. Jim Stroud 2.0 - I recruit, therefore I am.
148. Job Articles
149. Job Ireland
151. Job Seekers Revenge
152. Job|SearchMarketing
153. JobBurner
154. JobMob
155. Jobs In Search
156. Jobs4.0
157. jobster blog
158. JobStuff
159. JobSyntax
160. JobThread blog
161. Joella Shepherd
162. Just What The World Needs
163. Kangarooster
164. Knock em Dead Blog
165. KnowledgeInfuser
166. Landed.fm
167. Lefkow Zone
168. Letznetwork
169. Linked Intelligence
170. Magic Pot of Jobs
171. Management College
172. Manaster
174. Martin Snyder's Passing Scene
176. Meritocracy
177. Microsoft JobsBlog
178. Microsoft Marketing Recruiting Blog
179. Microsoft Technical Recruiting Blog
180. Michael Specht
181. Miles from the curb
182. Minnesota Headhunter
183. MN Headhunter
184. Money Talks
185. Monster Blog
186. My HR Blog
187. myzeek
188. New Workforce - The Weblog of New Equities
189. Nobscot's Blog
190. Occupational Adventure (sm)
191. On Talent Blog
192. On The BioPharm
194. Online Recruitment: The Bigger Picture
195. Outsourcing
196. Passing Notes
197. PEO, ASO, Temporary Staffing http://peolaw.blogspot.com
198. People Management
200. Personal Branding
201. Quant Recruiter
202. Recruit|meme
203. recruitER
204. Recruiter Diary
205. Recruiter Guy
206. Recruiter Illuminati
207. www.recruitersnetwork.com/blogs/
208. Recruiting Animal
209. Recruiting Edge
210. Recruiting Fly Blog
211. Recruiting in China
212. Recruiting Nevada
214. Recruiting Talent
215. Recruiting.com
216. Recruiting: Good, Bad & Ugly
217. Recruitingbloggers
218. Recruitment Heresy
219. Recruitment in India
221. Recruitment Views
222. RecruitmentSpin
223. Recruitomatic
224. ReferNet
225. Research Goddess
227. Restaurant Recruiter
228. Resume Wiki
229. Retention Secrets
230. Rise Trends
231. Rithesh's Recruiting and Sourcing Secrets
232. riveting rosie
233. Robb's Ramblings
234. Romulus Blog
237. SalesTechnology.com
238. Sean Rehder
241. Select, Recruit and Retain
242. Selection Matters dot com
243. Semiconductor Jobs: http://semiconductorjobs.blogspot.com/
244. Siliconvalleyjobs.com Blog
245. Simply Blog
246. Sina's Blog
247. SittingXlegged
248. Six Degrees of Dave
249. Six Figure Learnings
250. Slow Leadership
251. SocialSoftwareWeblog
252. Sourcers Apprentice
253. Sourcing - Recruiting Secrets
254. Sourcing Riff
255. Spherion Career Blog
256. Staffing.org
257. Startupjobs.com Blog
258. StlRecruiting
259. stone
260. Strategic HR Lawyer
261. Success in HR
262. SuperSourcer.com
263. Susan Strayer
264. Systematic HR
266. systematicHR - Human Resources Strategy and Human Resources Technology
267. talent bloggers ~ the world of wireless recruiting
268. Talent in China
269. Talent Management Solutions - Taleo Blog
270. Talentism
271. Taleoblog
272. Talking Talent
273. Technical Careers @ Microsoft
274. Technological Winter
275. Thai Head Hunter
276. The Desk
277. The Recruiter
278. Todd Raphael's World of Talent
279. Venture Blog
280. Venus de Micro
281. Video Jug
282. Virtual Handshake
283. Web Worker Daily
284. WetJello
285. Wild Job Safari
286. William Arruda on Personal Branding
287. WirelessJobs.com
288. Workfarce
289. Workplace Visions
290. Work-related Blogs and News
291. Wurk
292. XtremeRecruiting
293. yarddart
294. YourHRGuy
Great insights, comments, and call to action. Count me in! We collectively have to support, encourage, and promote ourselves in order to break-thru to the next "Google"-level of success.
Posted by: Steve Montoya | July 19, 2007 at 11:21 PM
I write the entrepreneurship column for Dominican Times Magazine (and 15 other publications)... this is a good resource.
~ Vik Rajan
PersonalBrandMarketing.com
Posted by: Vikram Rajan | July 20, 2007 at 10:57 AM
Great list.
I would highly recommend the blogs that the employer bradning and personal branding guru Krishna De writes.
Check out www.bizgrowthnews.com where she talks about corporate branding, employer branding and personal branding.
Also check out her blog and podcast at www.todayswomeninbusiness.com where she has covered all sorts of career success strategies and an excellent recent series on networking.
Posted by: Lin Edards | July 21, 2007 at 01:56 AM
Thanks for the mention. If you're interested, you should view my new magazine on Personal Branding out in august.
Dan Schawbel
Personal Branding Magazine - Publisher
www.personalbrandingmag.com
Posted by: Dan Schawbel | July 22, 2007 at 07:04 PM