Shane's Recruitment Blog from truLondon Feb 2010
After TruLondon
TruLondon is over. How sad.
But wat a fantastic event is was and how exciting that this is the start of a whole year of truEvents.
Congratulations to Bill, Geoff, Fran and all those involved in the event.
TruLondon - 18th Feb 2010
Well here are two of the Vblogs I made at and after the truCurryTweetUp. TruLondon is great for lots of reasons but, as you may be able to tell from these videos, it is also a bit of a party. Fantastic people to meet and great conversation.
Apperently we were one of the most tweeted about events in the world today.
Shane McCusker
The last video blog of the day.
The Talent Puddle
At long last I'm getting round to writing a recruitment software blog. Of course recruitment software is only a means to an end and so what I'm really going to be talking about is everything recruitment.
If anyone has any comments or criticisms please email me and I will be happy to respond.
My first articles on this page are in preparation for TRULondon later this month, when I will be leading a number of tracks.
One of those tracks is with Alan Whitford talking about his concept of 'The Talent Puddle'.
As I understand it, Alan believes that recruiters should focus their attention on a small group of candidates, the puddle, rather than trying to spread themselves too thinly to cover the whole talent pool.
I agree with this in so far as I think it is a good idea to segment your candidate to better understand them, communicate with them and meet their needs.
Unfortunately this is not actually what I see happening in practise.
What I see happening is that recruiters are swamped with too many unplaceable candidates and end up ignoring large numbers of them simply so that they can cope with a more manageable number.
This, in my mind, is everything to do with good information management (or rather the lack of it).
If recruiters can manage their information in a way that they feel in control and can get simple visibility of what’s going on, then the problem is solved.
With clever recruitment software and information management a recruiter can choose the most appropriate group of candidates to communicate with for any one assignment.
This group is not a static puddle but rather a dynamic splash. Easily and instantly created for a single purpose.
So by focusing attention on one part of the talent pool and creating a splash, ripples will be sent in all directions and the best candidates will rise to the surface.
To expand on this idea I have made the following video. Hope you like it. see you at TruLondon.
Shane McCusker
The (What I can do with) Technology Shopping List
I am very excited to be track-leader with Steve Boese and Sarah White talking about a ‘Technology Shopping List’ at the truLondon event next week.
Given my work in Intelligence Software it may be slightly contradictory but I’m actually quite a technophobic technologist.
That is I really don’t get that excited about new technology but I do get excited about new ideas and new ways of using technology to work smarter.
It’s not the technology, its what you do with it that counts.
This is the reason why, when I receive calls from people wanting of buy our software, I’m quite disappointed.
Do they not realize, Intelligence Software doesn’t sell Software, we sell Intelligence!
Some people will approach us with very set ideas about exactly the software features they want but with little thought about what they are trying to achieve.
Imagine it I went to them to recruit a candidate, I could tell them where to advertise and how to hear hunt but didn't understand the job I was trying to fill.
The idea therefore of a Technology Shopping List has again missed the mark.
So next week I will be there doing my best to promote a ‘Working Smarter’ shopping list and a ‘Making More Placements’ shopping list.
If I can get just one person to sign up to this idea then they might just be interested in buying our software.