Norton folgate the recruiting unblog

From barcamps to gatherings in parks, the unconference is seen as the best way to share and communicate and come up with real solutions without the clutter of structure or set agendas. There are no rules or fixed structures, speakers or auditoriums, and definitely NO death by powerpoint.

The event is broken in to tracks with trackleaders in most cases, who have some expertise in the discussion area. Their role is to encourage conversation, input where needed and support the exchange of ideas, communication, conversation, disagreement, debate and discussion. Anyone can join in and if you get bored, you just change the conversation or move to another track.

I lead a track at Recruitfest09 in Toronto and this great event convinced me that we needed to do the same thing in London. I mention Madness, or the nutty boys for two reasons. The quest for the venue starts on the location of the Norton Folgate then head east from Mr. Truemans beer factory via the gas lights. The area was declared by statute a liberty i:e: A free land with no rules or order.

Being a liberty, it attracted all of Londons society and became home to the artists, poets, performers, artistes, free thinkers, buskers, anarchists and the like. You might expect anarchy without order but the story , as the song goes saw a society spring up where people accepted each other, helped and shared views without the need for law and agenda, the people in effect policed and organised themselves.

The liberty of Norton Folgate may have been forgotten in time but for Madness, reviving it in song and retelling the story. By some strange chance, and in an event eerily unconnected with the band, property developers planned to pull down the alleys and buildings that form Norton Folgate and replace them with functional but faceless glass skyscrapers to match most of the surrounding areas. Norton Folgate seemed doomed forever when local protest met a brick wall of bureaucracy.

By chance, a local historian opposed to the destruction of this piece of history found the Liberty and discovered that by error, the beaureaucrats had never actually revoked it. By evoking the Liberty, and declaring that the land did in fact belong to the people and not the planners, the demolition has been prevented at least for the time being. At the same time, Madness had read about Norton Folgate and had written a series of songs on London, culminating in a 10 minute classic celebrating the Liberty.

The protesters, on hearing this, adopted the song as their anthem and the two movements combined. Madness, being a bit rebellious but nice , in their day were honoured that their musical mischief making had coincided with such a rebellious event!

On my part, the spirit of Norton Folgate is exactly what the Recruiting Unconference London is all about. Many of these roles could be filled by the new breed of contract recruiters, who come in as needed, and drop off when things are slack, or through RPO operations, importing expertise at the sourcing end.

Potentially this will mean less opportunities for in-house recruiters. This changes the recruiters role from filling jobs to populating the pipeline and the talent network. Sourcing people who are a cultural fit, with longer term potential as hires, and organising the data in the talent network for the hiring managers to recruit from.

Whilst this role is proving valuable for those companies who go down this route, few companies will prove as forward thinking. We will also see a rise in companies like Norman Broadbent company Social Media Search providing this as an outsourced function. Whilst this has to be the least appealing option, cost considerations may well see this as the most likely route.

I look forward to the debate! Listen to it again now and visualise a Recruiter sitting at their desk having advertised their latest job and waiting for the star candidate to call them. However, recruiting was still like this up until not so very long ago, except adverts were placed on the job boards rather than in newspapers or magazines. Tell me, are we really through? Recruiters need to adapt and move with the times.

Social Media has turned the Recruiting world on its head. If a quality candidate has a LinkedIn profile, chances are they get a half a dozen or so In-mails a week starting with …….

They may also have a Facebook profile and have been sent a personal message, or have been contacted via their Twitter account.

So candidates are being served opportunities in more ways than just traditional advertising from recruitment agencies and direct employers! I am not saying job boards are dead, I am saying that Recruiters are no longer needed. Thats 3. The topic of the chat: Recruiting as an HR function. I understand that as more organisations move away from the agency recruiting route in favour of direct sourcing, the recruiting or talent acquisition to give its posh term functions have developed in their own rite and needed dedicated experts.

Management structures may have flattened a little to create a Human Resources team rather than a department with a head.

These flat teams consist of function specialists, one of which will be talent acquisition and as such I see them operating collectively within the HR function. Perhaps collaboration over strategy and execution, but not permission from the function they are a part of.

What are your views on where recruiting sits within the organisational structure? If you outsource the function, do you outsource the responsibility with it? This will enable you to follow the conversation on the hashtag outside of your usual stream and to contribute without needing to add the hashtag each time.

I use tweetchat for this, though tweetgrid is an excellent alternative. PS: I will be moving to a new domain with a new look over the next few days. Keep your eyes peeled for an announcement! The unblog is the official blog of The Recruiting Unconference London if anything can be official about such an event! This is the place for random thinking on recruiting and social recruiting, debate and discussion.

In the spirit of the unconference, anyone can post here on any topic, start their own blog or leave comments. The comments are unmoderated, it is down to you to respect common decency just as it will be on the 19th November. All you need to do is register and start blogging. Word, video, podcast, whatever method you favour, post it here.

An unconference is an unconventional event that has built momentum from the technology sector in the states. From barcamps to gatherings in parks, the unconference is seen as the best way to share and communicate and come up with real solutions without the clutter of structure or set agendas. There are no rules or fixed structures, speakers or auditoriums, and definitely NO death by powerpoint. The event is broken in to tracks with trackleaders in most cases, who have some expertise in the discussion area.

Their role is to encourage conversation, input where needed and support the exchange of ideas, communication, conversation, disagreement, debate and discussion. Anyone can join in and if you get bored, you just change the conversation or move to another track. The comments are unmoderated, it is down to you to respect common decency just as it will be on the 19th November.

All you need to do is register and start blogging. Word, video, podcast, whatever method you favour, post it here. An unconference is an unconventional event that has built momentum from the technology sector in the states. From barcamps to gatherings in parks, the unconference is seen as the best way to share and communicate and come up with real solutions without the clutter of structure or set agendas. There are no rules or fixed structures, speakers or auditoriums, and definitely NO death by powerpoint.

The event is broken in to tracks with trackleaders in most cases, who have some expertise in the discussion area. Their role is to encourage conversation, input where needed and support the exchange of ideas, communication, conversation, disagreement, debate and discussion.

Anyone can join in and if you get bored, you just change the conversation or move to another track. I lead a track at Recruitfest09 in Toronto and this great event convinced me that we needed to do the same thing in London. I mention Madness, or the nutty boys for two reasons.

The quest for the venue starts on the location of the Norton Folgate then head east from Mr. Truemans beer factory via the gas lights. The area was declared by statute a liberty i:e: A free land with no rules or order. Being a liberty, it attracted all of Londons society and became home to the artists, poets, performers, artistes, free thinkers, buskers, anarchists and the like. You might expect anarchy without order but the story , as the song goes saw a society spring up where people accepted each other, helped and shared views without the need for law and agenda, the people in effect policed and organised themselves.

The liberty of Norton Folgate may have been forgotten in time but for Madness, reviving it in song and retelling the story. By some strange chance, and in an event eerily unconnected with the band, property developers planned to pull down the alleys and buildings that form Norton Folgate and replace them with functional but faceless glass skyscrapers to match most of the surrounding areas.