Poor Richard's Internet Recruiting

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Summary: Appeals to a broad audience
Review: I am a seasoned strategic internet sourcer who has been online for over four years. I found this primer to be quite informative because it reminded me of many advanced searching and sourcing techniques that are quite useful and not well-known. This book has broad appeal because it can be read by both novices and experieced professionals who rely on the internet to market and grow their businesses.

Poor Richard's Internet Recruiting addresses the key topics that are presented in many of the top internet recruiting seminars.

Lisa Fraimow, Strategic Internet Consultant

Rating:
Summary: Appeals to a broad audience
Review: I am a seasoned strategic internet sourcer who has been online for over four years. I found this primer to be quite informative because it reminded me of many advanced searching and sourcing techniques that are quite useful and not well-known. This book has broad appeal because it can be read by both novices and experieced professionals who rely on the internet to market and grow their businesses.

Poor Richard's Internet Recruiting addresses the key topics that are presented in many of the top internet recruiting seminars.

Lisa Fraimow, Strategic Internet Consultant

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Summary: Essential information for both recruiters and employers.
Review: I found this book to be packed with tricks and techniques from which even the experienced Internet recruiter can learn. Definitely a must-have for a recruiter or business-owner's bookshelf. The section on writing a job post that gets results was particularly noteworthy.

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Summary: More hype than substance
Review: I've been recruiting for over 20 years and using the Internet every day for the last 5. I read the first two chapters of this book and then just glanced through the rest. It is very basic stuff and much of the information is completely out of date now. The author seems to be self-promoting and sounds more like an Internet marketer than a serious recruitment professional.

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Summary: Sorry - but this book misses the mark
Review: Poor Richard's Internet Recruiting is a cornucopia of "tips, tricks & techniques" for business managers to find and recruit employees utilizing the resources of the Internet. Readers will learn how to effectively participate in Internet forums; peruse industry niche websites; maintain an employment section on their own corporate website; post jobs at state and city job banks; search college and universities for employable talent; and much more. Poor Richard's Internet Recruiting is an essential, "user friendly", comprehensive, single volume "how to" course that will enable even the most novice company personnel officer to enhance their recruiting performance and the quality of their corporate workforce.

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Summary: Sorry - but this book misses the mark
Review: Very little real solutions...I don't know if the other reviewers read a different book than I did but honestly not that informative and has nothing "new" in it. Nothing in here that one couldn't figure out for oneself just by using common sense and having a better-than-rudimentary knowledge of the Internet.

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Summary: Very good overview and primer
Review: Very well written. It provides a comprehensive overview of the major changes that have occurred in the last five years in the recruiting industry. Ling's style is easy to read and will make sense to the non-geeks out there. My copy is already dogeared and highlighted and will be required reading for our department managers.

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Summary: Poor Richard is "poor" reading
Review: Well, I run a highly regarded job and community site for the San Francisco Bay Area and beyond, and I see a lot of stuff professing to help folks use the Net to find jobs. A lot of it is useless or marginal.

This book is very useful, very realistic about all the job help out there on the Net. It's very down to earth, and to the point. It includes a lot of stuff, very current, which is hard given the rapid pace of change.

If I were looking, and didn't know a lot about what's going on, this book would be perfect. It'll also be good for people who know a lot, since it offer perspectives a Net veteran might lack.

The book also helps in unexpected ways, like letting people with DSL or cable modems know that they better do a little security upgrade.

Again, I've seen a lot of stuff, and I really recommend this book.