Matthew Kimberley

In the recruitment world:

JobMatchBox hits back with a list of UK Recruiting Blogs, a welcome addition. It seems that a lot of them haven’t been updated for a *very* long time – shame on us …

Monster gets hacked and thousands of people have their personal info filched.

And while there’s an awful lot of talk about protecting your online reputation, I can’t help thinking that even HR managers should realise that whilst what you do outside of work *might* affect your ability to do your job, most of the time, it has no bearing whatever.

A sign of a human resources professional with a humanistic bent is the one that sees your drunk, naked Facebook photos and offers you the job anyway, knowing that you’re somebody who can let their hair down when they need to …

The excellent, if US-centric, resource JobMatchBox has listed what they consider to be the top 50 recruiting blogs in existence.

The full list can be found here.

Included is my number one – the fully comprehensive Jim Stroud 2.0.

I’m not sure there are many more recruiting blogs than are listed here – the quality is variable, but it’s well worthwhile subscribing to a few of them on a trial-and-error basis …

What it takes to be rich (MONEY Magazine)

“All in all, I walked some 20 miles, rang more than 200 doorbells, almost got run over by three dozen SUVs, and spoke with 23 people who showed me that while accumulating vast sums of money isn’t easy, it’s a lot more possible than you probably think.”

Why career planning is time wasted (PsyBlog)

“So, in the journey from the sublime – predicting how we’ll feel about winning the lottery – to the ridiculous – predicting which sandwiches we’ll want for lunch – we are incredibly bad at knowing our future selves.”

Two very interesting articles on CVs being “so 2001″ …

via Traces of Inspiration and Marketing Headhunter.