Thought for the Day: Social recruiting is participatory or it isn’t socia.

• JobScience on Social Recruiting
  Ted Elliot has built JobScience into a technical powerhouse. They’re a primary sponsor of the Social Recruiting Summit. The add-iness distracts from the message. The service itself is extremely powerful.
• Who Owns Your Social Media Accounts?
  Michael VanDervert starts a good conversation on the question of who owns personal accounts that you build on the company dime. Probably the company but the area is murky.
• Finding New Employees, via Social Networks
  It’s weird to see a direct marketing datamining operation referred to as Social Recruiting. That’s part of the problem with the definition of Social Recruiting. Most of the tools really just automate a sourcing process. Nonetheless, this NY Times piece is a watershed moment for the burgeoning movement. The best advice in the piece is that job hunters should get social even if their prospective employers aren’t.
• Job seekers say social networking sites aren’t effective job search tools
  You’ve got to love any operation that will say “research says” without linking to the research. It’s like it’s 1950 all over again.
• Energy-Northwest Jobs
  Is a podcast social recruiting?
• Heather Bussing on Contact Ownership
  Our favorite lawyer weighs in on the Social Media Account Ownership question.