Last evening,
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Microsoft Office 2007 Standard! :( After nursing my ego, I researched this trend a bit more. While I found recruiters blogging about topics for other recruiters to read and topics for potential applicants/clients to read, I think we are the first corporate recruiting organization to blog. But please correct me if I;m wrong on that. One fascinating tidbit I did find was conversation regarding the ######## Amazon blog. I totally missed news on this one final summer. Apparently, this great guy named Ted posted some fascinating - yet polished - posts about life at Amazon. The Seattle PI explained: Just as we were getting to know him -- and even like him -- Ted disappeared from our lives, without so much as an explanation, or a farewell post. We feel so ... empty. Hey, wait a second! We don't even know Ted's final name. Come to think of it, he deftly avoided giving his e-mail address, instead offering a feedback form and explaining that he didn't want to attract spam. And his posts seemed almost too real. As a different weblogger who noticed Ted's weblog observed, the tone of his writing was "not 100% human." For some answers, we went to Amazon spokesman Bill Curry, who explained that the company was testing the weblog as a recruiting device. "Without going into whether the content is factually accurate or not, what I can tell you is that it was not an individual's personal blog. It was a recruiting message that we put in the form of a blog to experiment," Curry said. Two weeks later, the PI reported Ted, in fact, was real: In his own personal weblog last week, a different Amazon employee, Jim Carson, explained that Ted is, in reality,
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Windows 7 Professional Product Key! Alright. I believe you. But now I;m really confused. I googled Ted again and arrived up with a page (and some links to a page) which claims to be his Amazon blog …. but now it is an Amazon Recruiting page! Seriously, what gives? Was this a recruiting ploy or not? And if it was, well, great idea! Amazon, why didn;t you keep it up? Very innovative and ahead of the times. You know, for the smart recruiter who thought this one up … there are some open Recruiter positions at Microsoft …. gretchen