Bebek
Taken at Bebek Sahili
14 Sep
2010
New Way of Publishing: Trailmeme
Having read this on readwriteweb.com, I think trailmeme is really a fresh breath of air and a good example of new product development. It is a new way of composing web pages altogether. Sort of what squidoo.com was trying to do earlier, but trailmeme has better usability.
You can call it web DJing as the tool let's you compose a sequence of hyperlinked web content to carry the readers through a topic without actually sending them all around the net losing trail and track.
They are launching today at DEMO. I congratulate them for a truly new idea and wish them a successful journey.
9 Aug
2010
Finally got a chance to spot the legendary Maltese Falcon in action last week while on a vacation. Amazing speed, amazing beauty. Sorry about my bad pic quality, you can find better pics on Google.
The Legendary Maltese Falcon
20 Jun
2010
Learn to Search Before the Research - A Headhunter Irony
I sincerely believe that multinational headhunter firms are mostly retarded and they want to make money just by piggybacking on their global brand, instead of doing a good job. If you think that's a prejudice, read on.
I received a call from the local offices of a top ranking headhunter firm on Friday. The girl on the phone said that she is a researcher and that their database has 2008 version of my cv and she asks me to send my up-to-date CV to update their database. She is also claiming that if I do that she is gonna reward me by sharing a project that she is working on. How genius?! Seriously, is this how multinational headhunters work?
In these times, especially when speaking to someone like me, who I believe has one of the highest online exposures a person can have, she could at least search my name on Google before making the call to get the latest cv status. It's truly sad that someone gives her the title "researcher" if you think that she can't do a simple Google "search" let alone the headhunting "research".
Anyways, I told her that she can check my name on LinkedIn for the latest update and can call me back. Of course, she did not get the fact that I was almost making fun of her over the phone about her so called "research". My last word and maybe sort of a recipe to headhunters in order not to look/sound stupid:
- Don't call your people "researcher" that easily!
- Train your people!
- Do your homework before approaching a candidate!
- Learn the website address www.LinkedIn.com and how to use it!
- Record your outgoing calls to evaluate employee performance!
- And finally read this Mashable article to get a sense of latest trends in your industry!
Emre Erşahin
Emre Ersahin (bio) is the Chief Marketing Officer at
the largest online classifieds & marketplace website in Turkey, namely sahibinden.com and he is spending his days building process and progress.
He is an idea loving strategist, down to earth daydreamer, resigned entrepreneur, way early pioneer, new business junkie, novice kabbalist, new dad, jack of all & master of some.
He can be found on Twitter and Facebook. And he can be reached via email at emre.ersahin@gmail.com.
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