Summertime Blues

In the past six months or so, I have been revisiting the truths I thought applied to our Recruiting Industry. What is important? Who is important? Which trends are critical? What is the job of a trench level recruiter and does it vary by setting? What do the demographics really mean?

There are a couple of great people (Cheezhead and Russell...kind of sounds like a cable news team) who are following the blow by blow tactical news in the industry. There are others who are trying to make it (Davis, Animal). There are some attempts to polish up the internet search toolkit into a routine journal (Shally, of course). Both Stroud and Mendoza work tirelessly to showcase unseen aspects of the industry.

But, in all of this, who is looking out for the deeper infrastructure? With 300 bloggers, it seems like there are huge holes in the coverage. Lots of duplication (SEO and SEM are big, branding and website criticism run second or third). Fortunately, I can only make so many mistakes so I'm losing prominence as a target for rotten tomatoes.

There's even a funny new motif running through the comments around the web. Buried under a lot of rhetoric, it goes something like this:

#1You're stupid.
#2 No, I'm not.
#1 Yes, you are.
#2 No, I'm not you are
#3 No, he isn't, he's smart
#4 No, he's stupid
#1 No, I'm not.

or the finely honed substitute:

#1 You don't get it
#2 Get what?
#1 It, you numbskull, it
#2 I do, too. You're stupid
#1You're stupid.
#2 No, I'm not.
#1 Yes, you are.
#2 No, I'm not you are
#3 No, he isn't, he's smart
#4 No, he's stupid
#1 No, I'm not.

It reminds me of the old days when Jason and Animal would have a complex dialog.

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Workforce Woes So Far:

• Workforce Woes 1: Introduction
• Workforce Woes 2: The Demographic Challenge
• Workforce Woes 3: Cultural Change
• Workforce Woes 4: More Cultural Change
• Workforce Woes 5: Technological Change