Well, I've been reading everyone else's blogs for a while now and thought it was time I got one of my own. (I know, it's bandwagon jumping, next thing you know I'll be attending careers fairs on second life).

With the proliferation of online recruitment blogs what can I bring to the market, well, hopefully different input to some of the others out there. I get to deal with a broad spectrum of people in my day to day work, everything from new launches (wild ideas and good ideas in almost equal measure), to new technology and advertising agencies.

The big story (again) this month appears to be social media.. It's almost turning into a jaw breaking yawn to hear yet more people talking about it but at the end of the day I don't think the recruitment community is under any illusion that the way candidates are found will eventually change, it would just be nice to see someone tell us EXACTLY how, speculation is rife and there are more facebook apps than you can shake a stick at kicking around, which will win and work? Only time will tell.

The Godfather of Social Media recruiting, Jason Goldberg, is still touting it as the future and jobster certainly looks good, how it all makes money in the long term is something I'm a little unclear about but let's face it people said exactly the same thing when RBI invested as much as they did in the launch of totaljobs.

Personally I find that social media apps for things like facebook and myspace smack a little of manipulating the network which is a dangerous thing to do, if people get annoyed they vote with their feet and move to the next big thing.

I like the idea of networking specifically to find a job and if sites are growing up to do this and engage the audience directly then more power to them.

In general recruiting is changing, job boards are evolving and the Paper CV is dead, be careful what you put on your facebook / myspace, you never know who is looking!