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Hiring in a "2.0" World
3/24/2008 | posted by
astrout
THIS WAS ORIGINALLY POSTED ON MZINGA.COM ON 3/21
Today's Hiring Process
My company, Mzinga, is in the process of hiring for several positions. Given the fact that we are a company focused on building community for other businesses, the thought occurred to me that I might start practicing what we preach in the world of recruiting. In order to do this, changes to the existing process need to be made.
Like many other companies, here's what our basic hiring process looks like today:
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Today, my colleague, Eve, that runs all of our events/conferences asked a rew of us "what big give away at our next three conferences would create a real buzz?" After a bit of arguing, we came up with a short list of four items:
a Amazon Kindle (ebook reader)
a Wii (gaming system)
Nokia N95 phone (with streaming video capabilities)
Bose noise cancelling headphones
In spite of liking all these choices, we quickly realized that it was going to be prohibitively ex ...
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It only took several fights with my wife, three hours standing around at Logan airport and a lot late nights at work but I'm finally South by Southwest bound! For those not familiar with this conference/fesitval, it's billed as the "spring break for social media/Web 2.0 geeks." While that may be true, that's not why I'm going (well, it's not the only reason I'm going.)
While I'm here with my cohorts, Jim Storer & Colin Browning and my younger sister (who is also a co-worker,) Heat ...
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Wow - a lot has happened over the last couple of weeks. I have not had nearly as much time as I would have liked to blog so I'm going to kill a few birds with one stone here.
The company that I work for (and that powers the We Are Smarter site) Mzinga, is merging with white lable community provider, Prospero. I am very excited about this on a number of different levels (listen to the podcast that Colin Browning and I did with Bryan Person for details). We also got some pret ...
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