In a very extended half hour interview with Henny van Egmond (in English) I talk with him about the new world of work at Rabobank, the only triple A bank in the world. Henny runned a project Rabo unplugged there and now that this is going well, he decided to start his own company and advice other large companies on changing the way they work.
The most important things I got out of the interview:
In this very long (English) interview with Hans van der Meer, marketing manager of Microsoft Netherlands, I talk with him about the new world of work. What did Microsoft do? How did they manage to change the culture? And what did it bring them?
The most interesting things I got out of this interview: Lees verder »
Isn’t Second Life dead? Well, not according to Amazon recruitment. And they have proven everybody that thinks so wrong. Amazon had a second life job fair the 14th of july. They announced it on their blogs and did a little promotion on it. Nothing much, I saw the figures, I’ve thrown dinner parties more expensive.
Because despite the recession, Amazon is still looking for 522 people. Sow they needed to do something, and they did. And when I read: Second Life, I was sceptical, very sceptical. Second Life died last year, who in his right mind still does Second Life events. But the results tell a different story.
Reckitt Benckiser, you might know them from brands like Calgon, Vanish or Strepsils, recently launched a recruitment blog. Well, I’m a big fan of corporate blogging and expirimenting, but this blog totally misses the point. Sorry to say it, but it does.
I feel they haven’t thought it though very well. What is the target you want to reach with this blog? It’s totally unclear to me and I don’t think there are a lot of interesting articles on it. Why? Because it’s set up as a recruitmentblog. What should they have done? What can we learn?
Twitter is a 140 character news service and some say it will replace e-mail. That might be why the HR manager of Twitter send one e-mail out rejecting 186 candidates for the job of Business Product Manager with the e-mail adress shown for all. I can only say: oops. Valleywag states: how can you use such an outdated service like e-mail?
I’ve already written this article in Dutch, since it’s about Belgium and Holland and we both speak Dutch. But I recently found out that the prices of posting a job to a jobboard vary enourmasly between countries. And also the possibilities the jobboards offer.
I first found out when I started doing consultancy for Broadbean that the UK had a very different set of standards then we have in Holland. For example, in the UK a corporate and a staffing agency have totally different prices they pay (and I mean it can easily be a 100 times more expensive for a corporate), but also in possibilities you get on a jobboard. Even the number of characters you are allowed to use differs between staffing agencies and corporates in Engeland, while in Holland it doesn’t.
