Chris Hoyt appears to have weathered the storm and prospered. It’s probably because he’s less interested in the credit than he is in what he can get done. Hoyt is responsible for the design, implementation and sustainability of PepsiCo’s global digital and social recruiting strategies inclusive of managing Internet communities, analytics and 3rd party recruitment partnerships.
The current offerings in social technology are early demonstrations of ideas that will mature in the coming years. Data collection and distribution are currently far more important than the supposedly social aspects of the technology.
Local Recruiting doesn’t mean narrowing your search. It means starting locally and working up. It means connecting with half of U.S. workers. It’s where small and growth and tech and innovate and patent and yes hang out.
I don’t think much of best practices and big generalizations about our profession. Recruiting practices that work famously at Google are recipes for disaster in a factory near Macon, Ga. What works as personality assessment in Minneapolis is downright dumb in Baton Rouge.
Top 100 Most Influential People In HR – Recruiting. These days, I’m spending a lot of time on the Top 100 Influencers Project. Twice a week (Tuesdays and Fridays), I publish an additional piece of the work. So far, I’ve profiled a dozen people and written about influence from a number of perspectives. It’s an [...]
Thought for the Day: Disruption happens when the price drops and the profit increases. Incumbents fail. The Myth of Macroinnovation: “My experience with large companies and governments shows me that it is not a simple or trivial matter to recognize the benefits or marshal the resources. A common failure mode is where the leadership say [...]
Extremophiles (April 22, 2009) In a world of writers and verbal intellects, Eileen Clegg is a visual thinker. She is a prototypical Renaissance person with broad interests and deep networks. The seasoned newspaper reporter (10 years at the Santa Rosa Press Democrat) spent an additional chunk of her life working at the Institute for the [...]
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