That was the week that was...Week ending May 17, 2008

A round-up from the recruiting industry’s group blogs, portals and individual archives...

A light week for posting but a heavy week for reading:

RecruitingBlogs.com: The Daily Column...

Mendoza’s Monday Member Showcase: Meet Kevin Plantan, VP of Sales at ERE Media - King of The Mohito H... Tutorial Tuesday: Lie Detection
Claudia's Wednesday Wisdom: Digital Rusing
Thursday's XtremeRecruiting.tv: Featuring Bill Vick, Dave Staats, and Geoff Peterson
Friday:TGIS (Thank Goodness Its Sumser!): Digging Into Recruitingblogs.com V1.5

...and Editor's Picks

Monday: Great Moments in Motivation by Anthony J. Meaney
Tuesday: Random Recruiting Thoughts on Opt-Out Marketing, Viral Loops, a Mod... by Joshua Letourneau
Wednesday: Leveraging Fee Agreements by The Talent Hunter
Thursday: Your prospects have internal recruiters. What can you do that they ... by Michael Saulnier
Friday: What Books Have Inspired You? by Jennifer Bowen

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"Animal Crackers" on RecruitingBloggers.com

Monday: 30 Second Elevator Speech by Recruiting Animal
Tuesday: Organizing and Starting the Candidate Search Process by Maureen Sharib
Wednesday: Gatekeeeper Perspectives by Muareen Sharib
Recruiting Animal Radio Show with special guest: St Jimmy Durbin of DurbinMedia.com
Thursday: When Blogger Relations And Media Relations Intersect by Richard Becker
Friday: 29 of 30 Passive Candidates Weren't On LinkedIn by Maureen Sharib

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ERE Blog Network

Monday: Can you fire an employee for not sharing your (Christian) values? by Sarah Welstead
Tuesday: The Passionate Generation (a.k.a. Gen Y) by Kristin Gissaro
Wednesday: Get a data warehouse, or at least hire someone to sling bits for you by Martin Snyder
Thursday: Recruiting the Older Worker - Part 1 by Kathleen Dodaro
Friday: Are there two, three, or four types of candidates? Now, I’m confused! by David Szary

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Fistful of Talent

Monday: Don't Show Up to My Interview Looking Like Courtney Love... by Jessica Lee
Tuesday: I'm Declaring Today a National "Hug It Out With HR Day"... by Jennifer McClure
Wednesday: Can You Sell the Flipping Offer a Little Bit, Please? by Kris Dunn
Thursday: New Recruiting Campaign - Keyword "Google Killer".... by Kris Dunn
Friday: Farmer Wants a Wife - But These Girls Have "Retention Issue" Writte... by Maren Hogan

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