The hyperbole award goes to…cloudrecruiting.net

I’ve had a few people send me links to cloudrecruiting.net and their video about cell-phone recruiting.  I’ve reviewed both and am creating a new industry award to bestow upon them.

The Hyperbole Award for most beautifully packaged presentation which tells us nothing new but looks like a million bucks - therefore appearing to be groundbreaking but really being a waste of our valuable time goes to: Cloudrecruiting.net.  The presentation you can view on that site looks like a million bucks but I didn’t walk away with anything new or actionable.  Maybe I’m jaded, but it seemed like a repackaged view of things I’m hearing from a LOT of people.  The idea that recruiters need to be socially networked and use text messaging to recruit younger workers doesn’t break a lot of new ground in my mind.

I was particularly bemused because the site describes the presentation as: “Hard on the heels of a ground-breaking presentation delivered at SourceCon 2008, Michael Marlatt similarly wowed the audience at the ERE Fall Expo with his thought-provoking and eye-popping presentation.”

Michael, I’ll give you eye-popping, but ground-breaking and thought-provoking is a stretch.  I don’t mean to sound snarky - I appreciate anyone putting their ideas out there, but I think this was over-sold and under-delivered.

Hmmmm.  Over-sold and under-delivered, there has to be a message here somewhere that is specific to RPO…I just can’t put my finger on it right now (smiley face emoticon etc.)

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