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01 November 2004

Using a public blog as part of the hiring process

Via A Penny For... comes an extremely interesting story of how Bzzagent, a word-of-mouth marketing network in North America, proactively used their public blog to discuss their needs for hiring a particular new senior employee, and then posted commentary about the two short-listed candidates asking for comment and opinion on which one to hire.

A Penny For... | When I think open source business

A very bold example of being wholly open and transparent in recruiting. A sign of the near future.

Posted by on 01 November 2004 at 11:43 in Career, Weblogs |

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Some Bzz in the blogosphere about Dave's recent posts on the BeeLog about our decision-making process in hiring a new VP of Program Development: A Penny For...: When I think of transparency and operating as an open source business, I [Read More]

Tracked on 02 November 2004 at 15:32

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Gary

I think using a public blog for hiring is great. It lets the applicant know what your looking for.

Gary
www.cooptoons.com

Posted by: Gary | 19 November 2004 at 00:58

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