The Recruiting Nightmare #2 – No One Can Write A Job Posting

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Let’s put this simply – most job postings are horribly written, boring, inaccurate, and usually are near-meaningless laundry lists of stats and years of experience.  Those that aren’t too long are usually stupidly short.  The end result is:

  1. People ignore the postings and send in resumes anyway, qualified or not.
  2. People don’t send in resumes.

In short, job postings are lousy and they don’t get the right people.

Who’s to blame?  Actually, there’s really no one to blame for this – it’s another case of the system breaking down.

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Game Reviewers Needed!

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Want to get involved in game reviews?  Game Muse is a new site that’s focused on real, serious, game reviews.  They also need people so if you want a chance to meet like-minded gamers and get some writing experience under your belt, this is the place to go.

Go to http://gamemuse.net/work-for-us  or drop an email to kon.macfarlane@gamemuse.net!

Give it a shot folks!

– Steven Savage

Steven Savage is a Geek 2.0 writer, speaker, blogger, and job coach for professional and potentially professional geeks, fans, and otaku. He can be reached at https://www.stevensavage.com/.

Let’s Get Travelling

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So Google has bought the Frommers brand.

This makes sense to me.  Google has assorted travel-related things (well, maps), it consolidates ratings, and of course having Frommers involved gives them more advertising opportunities.  Also it keeps them out of other people’s hands (perhaps, Yahoo).

This has made me think about Yahoo’s future with advertising, since that’s well, their big thing.

Really there’s a point where people get tired of advertising.  But advertising that can be so integrated into information isn’t advertising.  Google is innovative.

So I wonder if Google at some point, in a viable area (say, travel) is going to really get experimental with advertising.  Offer so much the advertising is invisible, integrated, helpful.  Frommers would be a great addition to any travel site, but also, amusingly, a way to further blur the lines . . .

Just theorizing.

Also theorizing what jobs other future integrations could bring.

– Steven Savage

Steven Savage is a Geek 2.0 writer, speaker, blogger, and job coach for professional and potentially professional geeks, fans, and otaku. He can be reached at https://www.stevensavage.com/.