Have You Been Over There Yet?

Recap­ping “Over There”

Bill Boor­man and Jill Elswick at Recruit­fest 2009

For the past sev­eral weeks, I have been run­ning a weekly fea­ture that I have been call­ing “Over There”.  The idea behind “Over There” is to net­work with blog­gers and HR pro­fes­sion­als in my net­work who are liv­ing and work­ing out­side the United States, which is where most but cer­tainly not all of the read­ers of the Human Race Horses blog live.

Over There in the United Kingdom

I am deeply indebted to Bill Boor­manfor pro­vid­ing invalu­able con­nec­tions to excel­lent blog­gers and writ­ers.  I wouldn’t have got this idea off the ground with­out him and his help.  Bill was also gen­er­ous enough to con­tribute a post on HR called The 9^th Won­der of the World.  It was a  very inter­est­ing per­spec­tive on the cur­renet state of human resources, writ­ten from the some­what out­side per­spec­tive of a recruiter.  It is an inter­est­ing read and worth check­ing out.

The Sav­age Truth from Australia

Greg Sav­age — The Sav­age Truth

The inau­gural post for Over There was pro­vided by Greg Sav­age from The Sav­age Truth.  Greg is the Inter­na­tional CEO, Europe and Asia Pacific for Aquent,  the only global staffing com­pany ded­i­cated to mar­ket­ing and design.  Greg is cur­rently based in Aus­tralia, and you can find him on Twitter and LinkedIn.  Greg wrote about the state of recruit­ing in Aus­tralia, and how dif­fer­ent recruiters approach their work.

Over There in India

Our third guest blog­ger was a con­tact of mine, Gau­tam Ghosh.  As I have writ­ten before, I have vis­ited India in the past and am fas­ci­nated by the coun­try, the peo­ple, and the cul­ture.  Right now, it is a hol­i­day sea­son over there, as much of the coun­try cel­e­brates Diwali or the Fes­ti­val of Lights.   You can cel­e­brate Diwali here by read­ing his excel­lent and infor­ma­tive post on the devel­op­ment of HR in India.

Gau­tam Ghosh is a HR con­sul­tant and social media geek. He blogs at http://www.gautamblogs.com and you can fol­low him on Twit­ter http://twitter.com/gautamghoshand Face­book http://www.facebook.com/HR.Blogger.

Over There in New Zealand

Our most recent post was pro­vided by Ora­cle Recruiter and b;logger David Talamelli.  His post dis­cussed the turf wars of recruit­ing tech­nolo­gies as viewed from one coun­try to another, a great topic for this type of fea­ture.  I was very happy to see that David’s post was picked by Smart­brief on Work­force as a fea­tured arti­cle last week!

Up next: Back in the USSR UK

Jon Ing­ham who blogs about strate­gic human cap­i­tal, and who just hosted an aston­ish­ingly use­ful ver­sion of the HR Car­ni­val that he called the Social Busi­ness Car­ni­val has kindly agreed to pro­vide out next post from “Over There”.

Jon, I can’t wait!

Related Posts:

• Sun­day shoutout to the HR community
• Recruit­ing Turf Wars: Is the Recruit­ment Grass Really Greener On The Other Side (of the World)
• Over There: Jon Ing­ham Con­quers the Globe!
• The Devel­op­ment of Human Resources in India
• Time Man­age­ment: Huh?

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