#SMIR 2009 Social Media in Recruitment 2009

It's been a little while since I posted on here as I have been ridiculously busy chasing new work as much as possible and building my own personal pitch, more on that in another post..

I just wanted a say a couple of words on Mike Taylor at Web Based Recruitment's Social Media in Recruitment conference yesterday. It was really great to see a new event put together in a pretty tough market that turned out to be such a success, I believe Mike had 149 in attendance and a great turnout from the corporate recruiter and recruitment agency side of the industry. They are the guys that NEED to be at events like this because a vast number of them simply don't get what is going on in the recruitment space and are not prepared for the changes that are happening in the industry. Right now they are inundated with candidates and are, in many cases, not prepared for the changing recruitment market once the economy is back on an even keel.

The worry is always that people go to these events and then make a half hearted stab at social media and decide they can't be bothered to keep it up or they don't see immediate results so they abandon it. The trick really is not to do everything at once or if you really MUST do tha then get someone in who knows how to build and implement it.

I'm going to try and get copies of the presentations and, if Mike and the presenters are OK with it I'll host those I can on here and make some specific comments.