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#tru was founded in 2010 by Bill Boorman.  Since then it has expanded to be first truly global recruitment event concept reaching a volume of over 60 events per year, and all continents this year. #tru is a pure unconference and it continues to deliver low cost and high value events for people in HR and recruitment. More information on www.globaltru.com.

#TalentNet was founded in 2009 by Craig Fisher as the first hashtag chat for recruiters on Twitter. It has become a highly popular podcast, and a mainstay among U.S. recruitment conferences, gathering thought leaders around the globe to share ideas related to recruitment at multiple events each year. TalentNet will continue to develop high class recruitment conference experiences and will expand outside of the United States. More information about the conference on www.talentnetlive.com.

We are so excited about this partnership and look forward to working together to expand these two great brands to be available for an even larger audience, reaching and connecting all parts of the world.

On behalf of #tru and TalentNet,

Bill Boorman, founder of #tru, bill@globaltru.com

Craig Fisher, founder of TalentNet craig@talentnetlive.com

Aki Kakko, partner and Director, aki@globaltru.com

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The tour will kick off on Monday, May 13th, with #truSanFrancisco, hosted by Smartrecruiters at their HQ. So far we have:

• Bill Fisher leading a track on using Big Data- in recruitment, HR, retention, you name it!,
• SmartRecruiters’ own Jerome Ternynck talking about what drives the quality of hire,
• Kevin Wheeler exploring the trends and practices,
• Kes Thgesen covering the social referral topic,
• Bill Boorman looking into the future of recruitment and talking about ways we should change the way we recruit before it’s too late,
• Craig Fisher will look at the latest and greatest cool tools for sourcing, networking, recruiting, and content sharing.
  

We still have spots open for track leaders to join and the topics we would like to cover are mobile recruitment (wouldn’t be surprised if you’re scrolling down this post on your phone or tablet), and we hope not to forget to step into the candidates’ shoes and think of how to make their experience better.

The fun doesn’t end here- SmartRecruiters will host an after party called Smartup: The Secrets of College Recruiting with dinner, drinks and networking. Just saying, wouldn’t want to miss this.

Well, the fun doesn’t end here either - #truOrangeCounty follows #truSF and will be held alongside "Staffing & Recruiting Conference 2013" on May 16th at the Newport Beach Marriott Resort & Spa. We’ve had #tru evening editions, held them at universities and clubs, but a resort- that’s a first!

#truOC will see once again, Kevin Wheeler covering the trends and practices, Bill Fisher talking Big Data, China Gorman looking into the future of HR, Stacy Donovan Zapar- doesn’t even matter what topic she’s chosen- she’s the most connected woman on Linkedin, we have Broadbean as a platinum sponsor and its own Kelly Robinson joining, Michael Clark and Bill Boorman of course among the track leaders and room for some more to join. Just shout out @globaltru!

To end the tour we are going to Stack Exchange in New York, where Stack Overflow’s own Careers2.0 is kindly hosting our May 18th (#tru on a Saturday for a change!) #truNewYork unconference. In New York we have InnovateCV as a silver sponsor and among track leaders: Adam Lewis looking into the secrets of video, Kes Thgesen talking about social referral and of course Bill Boorman talking about culture branding and sharing his recruiting war stories.

Join the caravan, your tickets and track leader spots await at www.globaltru.com.

Yours truly,

#TRU & co

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Pin It Last week I was part of a #SocialAgency Cool Tools Hangout with some UK friends, courtesy of Colleague Software and Louis Welcomme.  Joining us on the call was Amanda Ashworth.

We had a great discussion of some of our favorite tools to find people, build networks, share content, and be more productive.  Most of these tools could be used by anyone doing sales, marketing, business development, and especially recruiting.

One of my favorite things to come from this conversation is the controversial things you can discover about people with Facebook's Graph Search.  If you haven't seen it yet, check out this humorous and slightly disturbing list of Actual Facebook Graph Searches by Tom Scott.

Here is the video and list of tools courtesy of www.Colleague.eu.  Big thanks to Louis and Amanda!
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Pin It Employers are starting to see the benefits of making job ads more visual.  If you follow me at all you know this is a topic about which I am very passionate.  Which is why I was thrilled when the folks at Most Wanted sent me a note about their latest infographic, The Job Posting Field Guide.
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Pin It Have you ever wondered what time of day you take the most photos with your iPhone? No? Me either. But I have wondered if there is an easy way to make Infographics on my iPhone.

I've found a few cool tools that are useful for visualizing bits of data without ever leaving your idevice.

Photo Stats makes cool graphics from your iPhone photo habits.

Infomatic visualizes your Facebook and Twitter stats.

Make a Pie Chart allows you to input data to...well, make a pie chart.

Graph for iPhone is a pretty complex tool that makes various types of graphs.

Job Lander makes timelines and other infographic elements from your employment and education data.


You can download all of these tools for free or cheap from the iTunes Store.

Check back here and follow me on Twitter & Instagram @fishdogs for more cool tools.

Catch me on the Talentnet radio broadcast from Twitter HQ w/ NPR's Lars Schmidt and the Twitter recruiting team as we discuss one of the ultimate cool tools, Twitter, & other social media for job search - Tues./ 1/29 at 4pm PT. Details at http://bit.ly/Uvf0Ek Pin It

Pin It On my birthday 2 weeks ago, January 9th, 2013, LinkedIn announced that it had surpassed 200 million members. Two major milestones.  

Next week I'll be in San Francisco to talk about Linkedin optimization and other cool tools at the Social Recruiting Strategies Conference.  This will be my 3rd #SRSC, and I can't wait.  

More milestones...and a couple of firsts.

My excitement is enhanced by the fact that my good friend, Lars Schmidt of National Public Radio, and I will be going to Twitter HQ for a special TalentNet Radio broadcast, on 1/29, with the Twitter HR & Recruitment team as guests.  We'll discuss Twitter as a recruitment platform and preview the special #NPRTwitterChat that we'll be doing, also from Twitter HQ, that Thursday, 1/31.

Lars put together the new collaboration between the NPR and Twitter Human Resource teams to help job seekers use Twitter to aid their search. Details at NPR.org’s This Is NPR blog here.  I'll be there as a subject matter expert on using social media for job search.

Added to all this, I'll be heading with friends William Tincup, and John Sumser to SmartRecruiters' headquarters in SOMA to share personal social media recruiting stories with attendees of a #Smartup.  Food, drinks, and fun!  Register at http://smartupfeast.eventbrite.com/ 

You can hear Lars and I talk Twitter with Twitter on the TalentNet Radio broadcast, Tuesday, 1/29 7-8PM EST.  Details at http://www.blogtalkradio.com/talentnet/2013/01/29/social-media-the-job-search-nprtwitterchat.  And you can follow on Twitter at #Talentnet.


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Pin It Is the Sun setting on Instagram as we know it?   PCMAG.com posted an article today by   Jill Duffy detailing what to do if you're fed up with the way Facebook is killing the popular photo sharing community app.


Hopefully either Instagram will back down from it's new privacy policy changes (effectively allowing the service to sell your images to a 3rd party without your consent or compensation), or come up with some kind of premium opt-out "in an attempt to control spammers".
Today there is mass outrage online over the announced changes.  Time will tell.  The countdown to January 16th is on.

I hate this because I love Instagram.  And it's not because of the filters, I don't use them.  I edit photos with apps like Camera+ before posting them to Instagram.  So technically I can post to any photo sharing platform with the same results.

But Instagram is great because of the community and relationships you build there.  I, like many users, also use it as a jumping off point for other social sites.  I can post my pics to Instagram and blast them to Flickr, Tumblr, Facebook, Foursquare, and, until recently, Twitter, with one click.  It's easy.  And it's free...for now.
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Pin It "If there is one thing you need to know about Craig Fisher, it’s that he has a ridiculously big heart. When we asked him to appear on CHO as our second guest, he didn’t even blink an eye. (Although that could be the coffee.)

• How to create a LinkedIn profile that gets noticed
• What are some of the LinkedIn features often overlooked by job seekers
• How to use LinkedIn to identify and engage companies you’re interested in
• And many more

LinkedIn is a vital tool for recruiters so this is an episode you don’t want to miss!"

The CHO show team decided they had too many technical glitches with Google Hangout (other than my episode) for now and are potentially revamping the format.  I think it was a worthy endeavor and hope it comes back strong.  Thank you Lars, Laurie, and Lance.  I really enjoyed doing this and hope the content is helpful for everyone. Pin It