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From the Jim Fowler (Jigsaw CEO) - Deborah Pierce (privacy activist) debate.

Fowler: 50,000 recruiters are on Jigsaw. It’s 20% of Jigsaw’s audience, but 40% of the action on Jigsaw. “We love recruiters on Jigsaw.”

Pierce: Reads a list of fair information practices, including such things as “people should be able to know if they’re in a particular database,” as well as “choice” — meaning the ability to opt in or opt out.

Pierce: Describes how people may not even know that their contact info is in Jigsaw. Even if they found out and surpressed it, she says that Jigsaw’s information could be found if there’s a breach of some sort.

Fowler: We don’t touch “non-business information.” Says that this is a ethical issue, not a legal issue. Jigsaw members must comply with the law, but after that, ethicists must draw further lines. Plus, he says, the more transparent a society is, the better off it tends to be.

Fowler: Fewer than 500 people have asked to be removed. Says that online other databases, it’s easy to figure out if you’re on Jigsaw. Old-school databases like Harte-Hanks, he says, are a different story. The “march down the path to transparency is unstoppable,” he says. Says MySpace is more dangerous and people contacting via Jigsaw are usually seeking more innocent aims, such as an employee.

Pierce: Says that business information alone can be used to commit identify theft. Says 163 million records were lost this year, and Jigsaw’s credit-card and other information could get breached. Says 4.2 million credit card numbers were recently stolen from a grocery company.

Lou Adler: Says credit-card information isn’t related.

Pierce: “People still end up becoming identity theft victims.”

Fowler: “There’s no legality here.” Says you don’t have to have a credit card to be removed from the database. All you have to do is email privacy@jigsaw.com and confirm who you are, and you get surpressed.

Pierce: “That’s a pretty aggressive move” — Jigsaw’s goal of mapping all the organizations on the planet. … and many people have never heard of the site.

Fowler: Believes that 2-3% of the world really cares about privacy when it comes to their business card. “Most people don’t care about this particular piece of data,” he says. Says if data businesses were outlawed people couldn’t do business. “Data is one of the critical parts … that makes our society run.”

Pierce: Fair information practices aren’t laws.

Pierce: She didn’t ask to be in Jigsaw. Doesn’t expect when handing out a business card that it’ll end up in a database. She has chosen what information she wants on a social network. She hasn’t chosen to have all of her business card info on Jigsaw.

Gerry Crispin: What if a recruiter sends in information from resumes they’re collecting, as opposed to business cards?

Fowler: You could get blacklisted for certain practices. Says that Jigsaw is a data company. Why not ask the same questions of “the dinosaurs” — the old-school companies that have been doing this for years.

Dennis Smith, moderator: Says recruiters often ask permission before distributing contact information on Jigsaw.

Fowler: Says the real ethical issue is whether it’s ethical to “out” your clients and friends on Jigsaw. All user-generated content sites have similar issues … 1% do the work, and 99% watch. Top 10 Jigsaw users have added a lot of the data. They don’t know all the people personally — they get the data from “500,000 different ways” — such as a restaurant fishbowl or something. Says he’s not arguing that it’s right or wrong to “out” a friend. He’s arguing that most data is not “outs.”

Fowler: “You’ve still outed somebody” — whether it’s a friend or someone you don’t know. “I think that’s wrong.”

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Hi!

I’m a corporate recruiter in the Portland area. I’m hoping to link up with some local HR professionals that I’ll continue to network with once we get back home. Please write so we can make sure to meet at the conference: kelsey.miller@banfield.net.

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 Taleo, Kenexa and Peopleclick?

Video from the ERE Expo in Washington, DC. Interviews conducted by Jason Davis.

Interview with Gary Stark - Bounty Jobs

Interview with Gerry Crispin

Interview with Chris Russell

Interview with Kevin Plantan

Interview with Ethan Bloomfield - JobTarget.com

We are planning a major revamp of Diversity.com in ‘08. We would like your ideas and recommendations for designing a new site with newer - in demand service offerings for employers and job seekers.

Here’s our offer. Please share your thoughts with us now through Thursday 10/18/07 and we will award a “chair” at the ERE EXPO Charity Poker Event to the person with either the best set of ideas and/or whose comments get the highest praise from others. The “catch” is you have to be at the event to receive the prize. Runner ups will receive a set of bongo drums.. Yep, every recruiter should have a set - great way to relieve frustrations at the end of the day.

All comments will be appreciated but here are a few questions we would like to have addressed if possible.
1: If there were no diversity niche job boards were would employers advertise?
2: If paying for specific job positions were eliminated would employers buy annual unlimited posting/resume search memberships?
3:We think retaining resumes are more liability than worth..we think offering social networking would be better?
4: Diversity is no longer the code word for racial uniqueness..we live in a multi-cultural universe. Employers who are still seeking “minority” applicants cause me severe headaches! . These companies are truly lost souls. What are some ways to attract a broader base of multi-cultural,ability and life style job seekers?
5: We think there is a market for diversity recruiting in the UK and Canada. Do you?
6: The new Diversity.com will need sources of income to survive : what services should we offer to help keep the lights on!
7: If you were charged with finding the right web designer who would it be? why?

Hi,

I’m going to be presenting “MagicMethod”on Wednesday the 17th at 10am and I think there are 30+ signed up.  I’m printing 50 WorkBooks because Amy said these things usually have last minute sign-ups.  Here’s what I want to know as I powder my nose:

What is it you’d especially like to know about?

I’m bringing the specially produced videos that cover a real-time sourcing job - if you want to see the Trailer go here: http://tinyurl.com/3×8sym

I’m also bringing another video that conveys a real-time (very naughty) ruse call so you can see it in action.  I’m undecided if I will show that, though, as it is very, very, naughty!  You’ll have to convince me by clamoring for it.

;)

I also have a video on how to do a telephone “bank” and it’s not that exciting (if you ask me) but you might find it interesting.  The other two videos, though, I promise, are riveting!

For those of you who will be in attendance, fair warning.  We have three hours and a lot to cover.  We don’t have time to argue about the propriety of telephone names sourcing.  If you can’t stand hot kitchens, don’t come.  The last seminar I did (in Austin last month) went 75 minutes PAST the first scheduled break because they just didn’t want to stop.  It was my fault- I should have had better audience control!  Hopefully, I learned from that mistake.

Fair warning - go to the bathroom before class.  

In an effort to be able to present as much information as possible, I ask you to submit some of your questions NOW so that we can address them in class.  I know you’ll have questions in class and that’s okay.  But if there’s anything you’d ESPECIALLY like to see me cover, or you’re wondering about, ask it here so I can prepare.  I might even answer some of them in here.  

Thanks!  See you on Wednesday, October 16 in DC!     

There’s still room - register for my October 16 Workshop at ERE’s Fall Expo in D.C.: Telephone Names Sourcing: What Is It and Why You Need To Do It - Go here:

http://www.ere.net/events/2007/fall/ataglance.asp

to read all about it! Questions?  Contact amy@ere.net or call her direct at 360-264-5627 or also at 212-671-1181 x813  Use discount code of DC07SP (case sensitive) to receive a $200 discount off the conference registration cost.

It’s time to advance your sourcing skills.  Think beyond.  Take the original and only-of-its-kind telephone names sourcing course “The Magic in the Method”.

http://www.techtrak.com/magicmethod/magicmethod Maureen SharibTelephone Names Sourcer/MagicMethod Trainer 513 899 9628TechTrak.com, Inc.maureen at techtrak.comhttp://www.techtrak.com

I have attended many, many conferences over my lifetime. Some were great and some were bad. The thing they all have in common is the camaraderie that they all foster. I always walk away from these conferences in the past with tons of business cards, memories of impromptu discussion at lunch tables, and interesting comments we all make about the keynote speakers.

I look forward to this ERE conference. I hope that I will have a chance to meet many people and the tradition continues at this event.

Khanh Bui