The Tipping Point In Recruiter Blogging

Petulant commentariat alive and well.

by The Recruiting Animal

In case you missed the flurry of postings and articles about Jobster's alleged troubles, Marty The Beadle Snyder has collected them here.

There's also this one which quotes the Animal. And, this one which has the greatest comments beneath it. All kind of potshots are taken at Don JGo but Ami G is at hand to come to his defence.

Attacks Are Good

Now, according to business blog theory (a la Charlene Li), these attacks are gold -- because they reveal the full range of public perceptions about the company and its people. The problem is, however, that there is no demographic analysis attached to the complaints. We don't know how many people each vein of criticism (or support) represents.

One thing is certain, though, these three comments, which appear at the top of the list, certainly work in Don JGo's favour by giving you the impression that anyone who criticizes Jobster is either drunk or insane. (No, I didn't write them).

About time Goldberg got fired. I met him at a queen anne bar, the guy is so full of himself. Looked like someone with all show and no substance. When does he find time to run the company? [#19851]

Goldberg is the one who needs fired. The guy is a fool. If he worried less about his Prada shoes and more about his business Jobster might have had a chance. [#19859]

I saw him at Neighbors & he didn't even look twice at me...So arragant! [#19865]

Here are some other good ones:

I went over and read his blog for the first time and was stunned that this individual is running anything other than an ice cream truck. He truly does come off as a petulant boor who, in his rather inane desire to seem hip and open, actually does himself and (most importantly) his VC handlers an incredible disservice. [#20057]

Recruiting.com like jobster is all about hype where in a bunch of 10+ odd headhunters (most of them non corporate) are blogging day and night. I am not sure when they working? [#20152]

Kind of reminds you of this:

All recruiting blogs are worthless and designed by people for people who have nothing really to say; but they like to see their words in print. I've yet to find a recruiting blog that had content worth reading. The silly names by people who think they know everything about recruiting is embarrasing to the profession. [Shawn W]

The Tipping Point

It seems to me that Jobster is to recuiter blogging what the 2004 presidential elections were to the political blogs. No one paid attention before the elections but everyone has known of them ever since. And two songs come to mind:

In the midnight hour, she cries more, more, more! [Billy Idol]

More, more, more! How do you like it, how do you like it? [Rachel Stevens]

I like it! (And, did you notice? Don JGo's name is finally catching on).

Comments

[Colin Kingsbury]

The comments on Cook's blog do suggest he's chosen his enemies well. However, some more substantive stuff can be seen on his blog here:

http://jobster.blogs.com/blog_dot_jobster_dot_com/2006/12/questions_and_a.html

Most piquant is the one from an unnamed Jobster employee, who writes, "Also, you should know that your blog posts this week have been really disheartening for your employees. I will never look back at this "ho hum" and laugh about it. I've been happier working at Jobster than any other place I've worked, and whether or not I keep my job next week (if it's indeed next week), I am heartbroken for how the company has fallen apart in such a short time period." (And a lot more)

I'll give Goldberg the benefit of the doubt here, but this is certainly not positive in any way, and if things go through anything like te rumors, I suspect there will be a lot more dirty laundry coming out before it's over.

[Amitai Givertz]

Hey, Animal:

Great post. Your TrackBack URL's don't appear to be working. I wanted to link to my posting and the comments here:

http://blogversity.com/recruitomatic/2006/12/28/jobster-take-my-breath-away/

Colin, great analysis. The next few days should prove interesting on a number of levels. We'll see.

[Recruiting Animal]

Colin, Goldie keeps saying he's full of positive suprises. What if he's merely playing this negative gossip and speculation for all that it's worth. Playing coy with his revelations in order to keep the public frothing about his firm? The guy has a political background; maybe he's more cunning and sly than everybody thinks. And maybe these traits combined with a certain down to earth style are they key factors in successful corporate communications on Web 2.0

[Executive Restaurant Recruiter]

Animal, I'm sure that there are a lot of "piler on-ers" who are jealous of Don JGo, who don't like his shoes or wahtever. BUT, comments like the one Colin posted from an employee would tend to suggest that Jason has screwed the pooch on this one, if it is some elaborate plan. It doens't smell like one to me, it smells like an immature and inexperienced CEO who is now having to become accountable for business results.

I hope that Jobster's troubles don't signal that Web 2.0 is headed for Dot Bomb 2.0.