Jorge Albinagorta's Page

A few years back the cogmaps project looked pretty hot. I venture to say that there has been very little traction.

Since inception, cogmaps marketed itself as a org chart wiki. Users come in and update the org chart of their company (or one they know) driven by an interest to share updated information about themselves (e.g make themselves visible), or collaborate in the purest wiki sense.\

After a few years there are very few charts that I feel can be used for… Continue

My linkedin paper got a slot in today's recruiter daily. Enjoy.

To attract the best job candidates, more and more companies are posting
recruitment videos on popular grassroots sites such as YouTube. Most of
the videos are highly polished productions, but there are exceptions.

See the rest of this article including a number of examples using YouTube as the distribution channel for employment related clips… Continue

Courtesy of my buddy David Reynolds from Chandler McLeod, the first in a series of research papers aimed at shedding some light on some current issues faced by HR departments, recruiters. etc.

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Yesterday's public revelation that the careerone client database had been exposed on the internet highlighted to me the issue of sales and recruitment personnel training.

How so? It appears that in addition to the disclosure of private client records data, there were also a few less-than-professional comments made by client-facing staff at careerone.

Technically, acce… Continue