Shally Steckerl's blog

A common SEO recommendation is to include "Website" links on your LinkedIn page. Unfortunately LinkedIn has recently succumbed to pressure from Google and made most of those links "no-follow" to search engine spiders to stop abuses from SEO "spammers." What this means is those links do not show up to search engines, thus negating their SEO value.

BUT... with two exceptions!

Are old tweets good tweets?

Sometimes!

While the main purpose of status updates is to answer the "what are you doing right now" question for our friends and followers, historical data can also prove very useful to recruiters.

I really like Bob Marshall's positivity regarding the unemployment rate so I thought I would share his message with you. This is what he wrote:

Bob Marshall’s BLS Analysis 8/6/10

I received an email from a friend, Bob Marshall, about "real" unemployment and I thought what he had to say was so interesting it was worth sharing.

Here's what he wrote:

Bob Marshall’s BLS Analysis; 6/4/10

JayT asks a great question on my Recruiting Trends article titled "Is LinkedIn Actively Preventing Recruiters from Searching Profiles via Google?" He wants to know how to do a "radius" search using the site:TLD.linkedin.com hack for profiles located outside the US.

I've always been a HUGE fan of Australia ever since I was a little kid and picked up a book about Australia. I even did a show-and-tell in school and brought pictures of platypus, echidnas, kookaburras, and wombats. During my postsecondary education I took a year sabbatical to go live there and adventure around the country on a motorcycle from 1992 to 1993. It was the best year of my young adulthood, second only to my Peace Corps experience in how it influenced the person I have become.

This little gem of a sourcing tip was brought to my attention by my friend and colleague @joshuakahn, a brilliant social media thinker from Best Buy. (Here's his original post)

Josh writes about Will Moffat who built a tool called Facebook Search. It allows you to search status messages from Facebook: http://willmoffat.github.com/FacebookSearch/

The current state of job boards and online recruitment is one of the most discussed and debated topics in our industry. There is no doubt that job boards are changing, the only question which remains is what direction they need to go in order to satisfy the needs of both employers and job seekers alike, particularly given the shifts in job seeker behavior that our Recruitment Genome Report has identified. This is a question that my friend and mentor Peter Weddle is very interested in exploring.

Do you keep hearing about great recruiting and sourcing industry conferences and wondered if they'd ever bring those world-class presenters and best practices to your area?  That way, you wouldn't have to deal with the costs and time lost from travel.  Not a webinar, but an actual, in-person event.