Recently I opened an account on LinkedIn, the professional network site. Clearly, I am not an early adopter when it comes to social media. And although I can’t live without being surrounded by fast speed internet and cloud technology nonstop, there are two areas that have always been off limits for me, those being social media and gaming. To me, the value of the output of these activities is significantly less than the value of the input. This is debatable, of course, but that is not the purpose of my article.
Take competency one step further by training for fluency, the ability to engage in interpersonal relationships.
In business, competency and fluency are far from synonymous. Competency is possession of knowledge of a particular task or subject matter. Fluency is the ongoing demonstration of expertise no matter how much time has passed since competency was first achieved.
A couple of days ago, I was invited by a friend, Yugo Neumorni, to attend the CIO Council National Conference 2013. Knowing how to lure your prey is a hunter’s acumen. In the case of formal invitations, you flatter your invitee by adding three letters to the head title “VIP”. Insignificant or important, the impact of that acronym is debatable.
Time is changing fast regarding the technology. Getting the information is easier and faster than before and a culture of immediacy is already quite developed by most of candidates. QR codes is only a tool, it is not bringing a huge revolution in Recruitment. What is really changing is that a recruiter is able to target precisely his pool of candidates, directly and personally with a suitable offer.
