China 2.0, Visual CV and Mashable
I’m loath to share this with you, as the prize is fantastic, but in the interests of paying it forward, I’ve updated my online CV at VisualCV.com to win tickets to the China 2.0 tour in November.
Courtesy of Mashable and VisualCV, there are still four days left to enter … be quick!
Firefox for recruiters
Seth Godin has written an eye-opening piece about Firefox users on his excellent blog.
… 25% of the visitors we track at Squidoo use Firefox, which is not surprising. But 50% of the people who actually build pages on the site are Firefox users. Twice as many.
Firefox is an alternative web-browser to Internet Explorer. It was the first browser to introduce tabbed browsing. You can add bits to it to make it more useful. For e-sourcing, I’ve found there are various add-ons that make life much easier.
I use three dead simple ones that help me out no end: Google Notebook for recording leads or people I want to speak to, the LinkedIn companion which lets me look people up on the fly, (I also use Who Is This Person?) and the Twitterbar extension for updating my tweets from right inside the browser.
Top 50 recruiting blogs
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 …


