Recruitment Unconference un-reviewed

Bill Boorman and Geoff Webb hosted the second UK recruitment unconference last week. If you live outside of Twitter it may have passed you by (although I do understand Bill also promoted the event on LinkedIn)!

Following one day of "sourcing" experts sharing their knowledge were two days of recruitment focussed knowledge sharing.

I was only able to attend for one day and even then missed the last session. The two sessions I sat in on from start to finish were "The Social Media Circus" and "Recruiter Big Brother" (which was actually about the use of video in recruitment).  My plan had been to produce a write up of learning points to share. 

However, the joy of attending an event where lots of other bloggers are present is that one (or many!) of them are bound to have written up their notes better than you.

So what I want to share are the best roundups out there.

I have to kick off with Matt Alder's "TRULondon – the very good, the slightly bad and the tiny bit ugly".  Totally agree with all his points.  Superb networking*, very un-superb organisation (on the day I attended).  Overall very worthwhile attending.

Mervyn Dinnen shared his thoughts on "Networking, Learning but I still got Those Talking Gen Y Blues"

Alan Whitford's summary of "TruLondon II Day One"

The Red Recruiter's Day one roundup

I'm sure there are more summaries to come and I shall add them here when I spot them!

In the meantime here are a few related blogs which I thought I'd mention:

Andy Headworth took the opportunity to interview the lovely Jim Stroud on "Where will social media be in recruitment in two years time?" 

Mike  Taylor also interviewed Jim about "Using Online Video In Recruitment"

Jessica (who is Blogging 4 Jobs) wrote a "Man, I love your accent" type blog.

Raj Anand conducted a few Videos interviews with recruitment experts at the event

And Wendy Jacob took a load of photos (although I'd like to find that one of me eating fish and chips so elegantly with my fingers!)

If you need MORE than this then tune into the event twitter steam at #trulondon

* I also want to say what an absolute pleasure it was to catch up with so many fabulous people at the event.  People I've known for years but never met, people I've heard about but never previously been introduced to and a load of old friends!  Thanks for facilitating that Bill.

Comments

[Michael Carty]

Hi Louise

I was only able to attend the Friday morning's TRU London sessions, but I was hugely impressed!

I've done a couple of blog posts on XpertHR's Employment Intelligence blog:
Overall impressions: http://www.xperthr.co.uk/blogs/employment-intelligence/2010/02/tru-london-2010-where-hr-recru.html

And the future of recruiting: http://www.xperthr.co.uk/blogs/employment-intelligence/2010/02/tru-london-2010-what-is-the-fu.html

Thanks

Michael