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The Big Deal with Twitter

Tab Pierce, Director, Business Development at Security Innovation asks, over on LinkedIn:
OK...so what's the big deal with Twitter? I've had several people talk to me about joining. Which I finally did, but what's the big deal? People posting what's going on in their lives. We do that here with updates, it's done on Facebook and Myspace too. Am I missing something? I love useful tools, so I'm hoping someone can provide me with that aha! moment so I get it.
See all the answers (so far!) here.
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Non-Competes

In a unanimous vote, the California State Supreme Court said (August 7, 2008) that an employer cannot limit an employee from going to work for a competitor or from contacting clients of the former company.

In other words, “An employer cannot by contract restrain a former employee from engaging in his or her profession, trade or business,” said Justice Ming Chin in today’s ruling. He said the law recognizes only a few limited exceptions, for non-compete agreements that are part of the breakup of a corporation or partnership.”

Read more here.
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MagicMethod Phone Sourcing Classroom Chat Log Thursday, August 7, 2008

Best Remark of the Day
"How do you find passive candidates when English is a barrier?" ~ Will Mechem

Maureen Sharib
Today's Class Chat will be on International Sourcing. Alan Bogard Director, Corporate Recruiting has asked:
"Can you let me know if and when you happen to speak on the topic of Sourcing from an international perspective. We currently have operations in Canada, Dublin Ireland and London. I know Canada is not that international but it would be good to sit on a chat to discuss and hear what others may be doing.

Recent ERE discussion (Elite Cybersleuthing group) on International Sourcing here.

Sourcing in Hong Kong here.

Zip Codes outside of US here.

Sourcing in Japan here.

Developing an International Sourcing Strategy here.

Sourcing Japanese professionals here.

Passive Candidate Sourcing in China here.

Six Things You Can Do to Attract Global Candidates here.

Maureen Sharib
If you have any interesting sites for international sourcing post them here!

Read the whole phone sourcing chat log here.
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Moving Forward

I have a 10-month-old granddaughter. She just started crawling. What happened in the beginning was interesting to watch. The task at hand was to get her knees up under her and her backside lifted. Watching this was a comedy of errors and a lot of fun. A week or so of this and she gathered enough strength in her hip area to assume the takeoff position.

Sure, at first she’d rock backwards and plump back down on the floor, ever determined to get back up. When she finally was at the point where she was steady on her hands and knees, the first thing that happened was that she went backwards! Like a train that has to roll a little backwards before it can go forward, she’d push back a couple knee-steps and then she’d lurch forward, falling awkwardly flat sometimes with the momentum. Up though she’d get, rock unsteadily, trace a knee-step or two back, and then off she went like a whirling dervish!

There’s a sourcing reason in this grandparent reporting. Sometimes on a sourcing job we have to trace backwards a few steps before we can move forward. And this is never as true as on a job that is giving us a lot of difficulty. The fact of the matter is, a job that is presenting a lot of difficulty may have been set up wrong. What do I mean? Read more here.
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Are you "successful"?

Interesting article about what makes (Realtors) successful – take and apply directly to our industry.

Successful Agents are reading books, and listening to CDs about building their business, and the less successful ones have one foot out the door trying to get a "real" job.
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Wanted: Internat'l and Stressed Out Sourcers and Recruiters!

Wanted: Participants for next week's MagicMethod Classroom Chats - if you have something to offer please consider attending the chats next week here!

MagicMethod Classroom Discussion Topics August 5 & 7
Discussion August 5
I would like to discuss the amount of stress that recruiters/sourcers experience in their jobs and how to deal with frustrations and angry people. Today (July 29) an article was published that according to research 85 % of recruiters experience a high amount of stress. Apparently they score the highest compared to other professions. Could we bring this up?
Regards,
Elise Beyst
Senior Management Research Associate
Hudson Belgium
02/610.27.42
elise.beyst at hudson.com
http://www.hudson.com
Linked IN: http://www.linkedin.com/in/elisebeyst
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Discussion August 7
Can you let me know if and when you happen to speak on the topic of Sourcing from an international perspective. We currently have operations in Canada, Dublin Ireland and London. I know Canada is not that international but it would be good to sit on a chat to discuss and hear what others may be doing.
Thank you and have a great day!
Alan Bogard | Director, Corporate Recruiting
Chase Paymentech
Alan.Bogard at ChasePaymentech.com
14221 Dallas Parkway, Dallas, TX 75254
Office: 214.849.2059 | 888.262.9343 ext. 2059 | Fax: 214.849.4914
www.chasepaymentech.com

If you have other topics you'd like to see covered in the MagicMethod Classroom Chats post them here or send me an email! maureen at techtrak.com
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Dealing With Difficult People

"Doing nothing and hoping the problem will go away rarely works. Have you dealt with difficult people before? What did you do?"

Many interesting LinkedIn answers accumulating here.
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Ex-Google engineers debut 'Cuil' way to search

Anna Patterson's last Internet search engine was so impressive that industry leader Google Inc. (GOOG) (GOOG) bought the technology in 2004 to upgrade its own system.

She believes her latest invention is even more valuable - only this time it's not for sale.

Patterson instead intends to upstage Google, which she quit in 2006 to develop a more comprehensive and efficient way to scour the Internet.

The end result is Cuil, pronounced "cool." Backed by $33 million in venture capital, the search engine plans to begin processing requests for the first time Monday.

Cuil had kept a low profile while Patterson, her husband, Tom Costello, and two other former Google engineers - Russell Power and Louis Monier - searched for better ways to search.

Now, it's boasting time.

For starters, Cuil's search index spans 120 billion Web pages.

Patterson believes that's at least three times the size of Google's index, although there is no way to know for certain. Google stopped publicly quantifying its index's breadth nearly three years ago when the catalog spanned 8.2 billion Web pages.

Read more here.
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Attend the MagicMethod Phone Sourcing All Day Seminar in Miami, FL on September 4 at the Shane Center sponsored by Confisa International Group. Email bob@techtrak.com for registration form or call him at 513 899 9628. Seats are $$292.50 and INCLUDE lunch AND a three month subscription to the seminal "Magic in the Method" telephone names sourcing course.

"She's not gonna lie or even stretch the truth..."

Once again, it's not WHAT you say but HOW you say it!

Watch Penn and Teller manage to convince hundreds of leftists to sign a petition to ban water here.

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Value in Training?

How important is training for your job and how seriously does your organization take it? What do you perceive its value to be to your organization and your career?

Chosen statements will be included in an upcoming white paper that will be widely distributed and your name, title and a hyperlink to your profile will be included in it.

Post your responses here or you may send them directly to maureen at techtrak.com or to shally at jobmachine.net

"Excellence is an art won by training and habituation. We do not act rightly because we have virtue or excellence, but we rather have those because we have acted rightly. We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act but a habit." ~ Aristotle
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Important LinkedIn answers here on this subject of Training.
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