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| Maintaining Your Status as a Great Recruiter: What You Should Read |
Posted by: admin on Tuesday, February 08, 2005 - 01:39 PM
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Dr. John Sullivan is a well-known thought leader in HR.
The Recruiting Profession - February 2004
Recruiting changes faster than any other HR function. Some of the factors that keep recruiters on their toes include a constantly changing economy, the increasing globalization of talent search, and rapid changes in technology.
The net result of all of these changes is that no matter how good a recruiter you are today, whatever knowledge you currently possess about recruiting, it will all soon be out of date. In fact, I estimate the shelf life of recruiting knowledge has shrunk to less than two years.
As a result of this trend, it is essential that recruiters be well read in their field. Fortunately for recruiters, there is a wealth of top-quality information on new recruiting tools and trends available for free, through email newsletters. Unfortunately, as a result of their high workload, few recruiters have allocated much time toward improving themselves through reading about new approaches and tools.
To help you keep updated, I've compiled a list of the best e-newsletters in the recruiting field. I have put them in descending order, based on my personal experience and my unique needs. However, since they are free, you could subscribe to them all and then drop the ones that add little value, based on your own needs. Whichever of these newsletters you decide you subscribe to, I advise you to scan liberally through each issue in order to get the most value. I find it's much better to scan five newsletters than to read one completely from cover to cover.
Note: My apologies in advance for any broken web links, outdated descriptions, discontinued newsletters or omissions. If you know of a great newsletter that I don't subscribe to, feel free to send me a copy at johns@sfsu.edu.
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