Announcing TuSK!

I am not a recruiter. There, I said it. I do a lot of my work in a recruiting department, and spend a lot of time with recruiters and I have been a recruiter in the past. But right now I am doing technology, strategy and business stuff, not the whole recruiting thing.

But once you recruiting in your blood it is hard to forget. It's a lot like sales but with two smiling faces instead of one (since in recruiting you always have two customers: the candidate and the hiring manager). You can go on to start companies and do all sorts of things, but you never forget the high of helping a great person find a job, or connecting two great people so that they go start something great. I think it’s one of the coolest ways known to wo/man to make the world a better place.

It’s with that in mind that I have started a new blog: TuSK. TuSK stands for Talent u Should Know. As I explain on the site, TuSK is about introducing you to:

• People who I have worked with who I think are great, and
• People who I trust and respect, and
• People who the people I trust and respect know

In other words, it’s an informal network of at most one degree of separation. Sometimes you will see a short note from me about somebody I think you should know. Sometimes you will see a note from that person themselves (that note can cover any topic of their interest as long as they think it serves as a way to get to know them better). Other times you will see people I trust and respect writing about great people they know. But no matter what, if you are reading about someone on TuSK he or she is a person I am willing to champion and spend time on.

There aren’t many rules, but the few that exist won’t be broken:

• If I don’t know you, introducing yourself via email won’t qualify as “friendship.” To be a guest author or otherwise be in the TuSK spotlight I need to really get to know you. You figure out how (hint: email always works better than phone or voice mail).
• No fees, no time, no way. Don’t even think about writing me to put someone on if you will get paid for it sometime later. This is a way of building a value network, not of getting my friends rich. If I find out you are pushing people for monetary gain you will be deleted as an author.
• If you like the site, think about using the “Tip Jar” on the left hand column. It will help me cover the costs of the site.
• All posts are approved by me before they go out, so if I don’t like it, I won’t post it. No exceptions.
• I reserve the right to change, add, delete, modify, color and flaunt the rules however I see fit. No whining!

Otherwise let’s have at it and see if we can’t all introduce each other to the great people we know.

Comments

[jeremy langhans]

interesting :P