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Should I Become A Mentor?"

               A Checklist To Help You

As you consider the possibility of serving as a mentor, it is time to stop and ask "Should I become a mentor?" I designed a checklist below to help you out. The checklist provides a description of the qualities that are most often thought to be conducive to successful mentoring. Successful mentors generally have many of the qualities listed here, along with other valuable qualities that are not listed but that are unique to them as individuals. Space is provided at the conclusion of this checklist for respondents to add those qualities that represent their unique or special assets to mentoring.
To use the checklist, respondents should read each statement and place an X in the appropriate column which represents the degree to which the statement characterizes the way the respondent sees themself. After ranking each statement (1) Strongly Agree that the statement is representative; (2) Agree; (3) Neutral; (4) Disagree; and (5) Strongly Disagree, respondents may reflect on their own strengths and weaknesses. There is no single "ideal profile,” but respondents who possess many of these qualities are likely to serve well as mentors. If one has serious doubts about the strength of their own qualifications, it might be useful to get a second opinion from a colleague who knows you well..

        Strongly = 1    Agree = 2     Neutral = 3     Disagree Agree = 4      Strongly Disagree Agree = 5

                                                                              

1.  I see myself as being people-oriented;       ___    ___    ___     ___      ___

     I like and enjoy working with other

     professionals.

2.  I am a good listener and respect my          ___    ___    ___     ___      ___

     colleagues.

3.  I am sensitive to the needs and feelings     ___    ___    ___     ___      ___

     of others.

4.  I recognize when others need support or      ___    ___    ___     ___      ___

     independence.

5.  I want to contribute to the professional     ___    ___    ___     ___      ___

     development of others and to share

     what I have learned.

6.  I am able to support and help without        ___    ___    ___     ___      ___

     smothering, parenting or taking charge.

7.  I see myself generally as flexible and       ___    ___    ___     ___      ___

     willing to adjust my personal schedule to

     meet the needs of someone else.

8.  I usually am patient and tolerant when       ___    ___    ___     ___      ___

     teaching someone.

9. I am confident and secure in my knowledge    ___    ___    ___     ___      ___

     of the field and make an effort to remain

     up-to-date.

10. Others look to me for information about my   ___    ___    ___     ___      ___

     subject matter and methods that I use.

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Facebook Pet Hates

I will be posting my friend’s blog occasionally here to share his insights and wisdom! He is someone to definitely follow on twitter, facebook, linkedin and of course his blog!   

About Aren Grimshaw

"My Friend, Aren lives in UK, where he trains and advises small to medium businesses (SMBs), public bodies and charities on getting the most from Social Media platforms such as Facebook, Twitter and LinkedIn. He has worked with a wide range of organizations in his region and trained more than 700 businesses in the effective use of Social Media. "

Earlier today I must admit I lost my cool for a few moments and published three status updates over the course of a minute outlining my three top ‘Facebook Pet Hates’. This quick run of updates followed a conversation with someone in Starbucks who told me that one company, responsible for many abuses on behalf of themselves and their clients, was now offering help and support to their clients in this area.

Copied in below is the three updates posted over Facebook for anyone not already connected to me on the platform to read. If you or your company have been advised to follow any of the techniques or practices listed below can I suggest you re-evaluate your relationship with them and look elsewhere for advice – they aren’t doing you any favors!

Facebook Pet Hate No. 1: Companies using personal profiles for their business on Facebook.
..that’s what Facebook Pages are for. It’s against the Facebook Rights and Responsibilities to do it (4.4 Registration and Account Security -You will not use your personal profile for your own commercial gain), provides no opportunity to measure interactions / other statistics needed to measure effectiveness and should it get ’suspended’ you lose all your hard efforts to date.

Facebook Pet Hate No. 2: Companies talking relentlessly about own achievements or brand.
Facebook’s a ’social’ platform, not a broadcast medium. You’re competing with 5bn bits of content per week & 60m+ updates on Facebook alone – occasional updates to highlight your work are fine but if the only one talking about you is you, you’re doing something wrong! Aim to connect, build a conversation, trigger debate but please don’t broadcast at me.

FB Pet Hate No. 3: Companies setting up Facebook Pages, Groups or Pages just because the competition does.
If you don’t know what you’re aiming to achieve by being on Facebook or understand the potential return, how will you know if it’s a success? Lack of result & giving up will follow – leading many to say there is no business benefit in being on Facebook.

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The Sourcing 7 Social Event @ Twist

http://www.holytorres.com/Parties/SSS20100506/12143089_GQkaZ#863596117_gjxmY

Hello –

Again, The Sourcing 7 wants to say a HUGE THANK YOU for coming out and socializing! What a way to kick off our SIG, under NWRA.

We will be gathering & creating our agenda.  Once we finalize the details we will work with NWRA to keep everyone posted! We invite you to

Please share your experience on our facebook fanpage (The Sourcing 7). Also, Thank you Holy Torres for the wonderful photos! Stay Tuned!

 

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Social Influences Gets Real

The Internet has fundamentally changed how we communicate with one another. There is a growing demand for the ability to connect to others in a more humanistic way by using the leading tools in social media and not allow the tools to do all the socializing. In order to function, we need to encourage social exchanges and social influences due to faster rates technological changes. Social Influences is how we can start working and sharing our knowledge to become better champions. Companies should focus on enabling champions to produce results by supporting learning through social networks. Trusted relationships are powerful in getting things done in our different work forces. It’s the trust that is essential of social influence. Just because we have the technical networks does not mean that learning will automatically happen. Our communications without trust is just noise, not accepted and never taken serious. Let’s look at how we can create, change our social influences with the base of trust on how we can share the knowledge as staffing professionals.

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Problems Being The Popular One

I am finding recruiters, including myself talking about the quality of social/mobile recruiting that is starting to look more like “self promoting” and “abusing the freedom of expression”.  Don’t get me wrong, I truly believe in sharing and freedom of speech. But why does this come with a price of wanting to be the popular one?

The other day I was chatting with someone and they shared with me and I quote “I want to be popular like you” (me).  I was thrown by that statement, which prompts this blog post J.   I wasn’t really excited to hear this, because I believe that anyone can (and should) be heard.

Most recruiters, from many conversations I have had, say that it is popularity that gets you heard; seriously folks are we still in high school? For a very long time, I too felt that I didn’t have anything to share, or anyone really cared about what I have to say.   I mean who am I? A nobody?  However, that all changed when I had the opportunity to speak at SourceCon 2008, (thank you - Leslie O’Connor for believing in me,) and I was given a platform to present what I was passionate about; with this opportunity I found my voice!

This helped me to realize that we all have voices in this industry and that we need to start speaking up!

The real problem with popularity-driven people is not the existence of their popularity; it’s the lack of examination and evaluation of the fuzzy lines between perspective and truth. The real problem with popularity-driven people is that they reduce both the breadth and depth of the sources, topics and viewpoints being expressed across our communities. Popularity-driven people water down the value to those who are trying to find their own voices. These voices need to be heard and to be encouraged to develop new findings and new ideas that can grow within our industry. We shouldn’t have to feel that we need to be popular to be heard!

As social media becomes integrated into our world of staffing,  it enforces that now is the time to build a level of karma high enough to break through the controlling moderator hierarchy that somehow has been growing for too long in the our world of recruiting. Social Media removes many of the layers we feel to be popular and gives an individual an opportunity to grow, and, contribute their voice in recruiting.

What have I done?  I can l only speak for myself, I have used most of the popularity-driven people as mentors and found my own voice without feeling the need to be popular to be heard! Amazing self empowerment realization came to me; that I do have value to add to the recruiting industry, and which brought rewards in finding and surrounding myself with like minded folks who wish to continue to give back.

Your focus should be on what you can give back to the community that you want to build, and recognizing that in doing so you will gain the popularity you seek, and in return feel proud, and valid!

Rather than broadcast to a few “popular people” that you think matters and to make you popular, you should be broadcasting to your peers that share your ideas; and social media should be used to help YOU help other people to discover fresh, new, voices and find what matters and NOT worrying about being popular!

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Using Boolean Searching On Twitter

Twitter Search  www.search.twitter.com

Twitter search is fairly straightforward. Because it is real time Boolean Searching String capable however, don't expect to get number of results since that's fairly pointless in this situation. Just expect to get results from the last few seconds back, and you get the full tweet.

Twitter Search defaults to AND, and it recognizes the “OR” option, and assumes that “NOT” is a search term, although the minus “-“sign works in place of it. Unfortunately phrase searching isn't an option which is a huge bummer, except that there is if you use the advanced search option.

Search Using Hashtags (#) is a useful option. How do we use “#” hashtags Kay?, you may ask. Well, a hashtag such as #sourcecon is a neat and easy way to collate a series of tweets together on one subject, such as the sourcecon conference for example. A search on said hashtag will then result in a series of tweets discussing that subject. This works in both basic and advanced search in the same way, with the same results.

People Search Options Both search options allow search by an individual with the function “from:” so from:Jaxx_Magee provides a result listing all of my tweets, though you could get the same information from my profile page. However, you can then add in other search terms to limit results to my tweets that also contain a particular word. It's possible to search for tweets to a particular person, so to:insert your handle here shows tweets to that handle and adding in more terms limits the search to those tweets that also contain the searched keyword. Finally in this section it's possible to search for references to an individual using the @name option, so @Jaxx_Magee will list replies to me but also Retweets (RT) as well.

Location Search Options The concept is simple, working in both basic/advanced search, you can run a search for your keyword, a location, and a distance. A search for internet near:seattle within:15mi will provide results for the keyword in a radius of 15 miles of Seattle. However, if we run the search globally such as near:londonuk within:15mi we get a response based on London but a some searches results will not find the geocode you are looking for. While not exactly broken, I would have to say that searching by location is not perfect.

Search By Date This option lists Tweets since a particular date using the function since:2009 03 11 (note the global dating system if you're not from here) or before a particular date using the function until:2009 03 12 This works well in both basic and advanced search.

Attitude Searching This is very cool - very simple concept based on the emoticons “:)”for positive, :( for negative and ? asking a question. Unfortunately it's not possible to search for other symbols such as $ or % which is a real shame. This is in my opinion pure fun search to break up your day

RSS Feeds Both basic and advanced search options allow for RSS feeds for any search, which is clearly useful. However, only the advanced search option allows for results to be tweeted in turn, for no good reason as far as I can see, other than the discontinuity between search engines.

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