It was supposedly broadcasted on Discovery Channel and The Science Channel. Definitely targeted for kids. I wonder if they are planning to roll it on CartoonNetwork right after Spongebob

Korn/Ferry International just released their recent poll numbers. 55% of recruiters who are specialized in executive positions stated that it’s more difficult than in the past to convince candidate to relocate for new job position. The leading factors for resistance are: family ties (50%), lifestyle factors (25%) and housing market (10%).

I call BS here. In my experience people tend not to acknowledge the fact that they have financial problems with moving. Considering current housing market conditions and typical executive salary most of such candidates stuck with big houses that they are just too greedy to sell at this point, because potential loss might be in $XXX.XXX range. Of course they cannot tell “You know, I was stupid and bought a house in a housing bubble time and I cannot move because selling this house will be confirmation of me making bad choices. I will keep telling that prices will have go up and the reasons I cannot move are my family and lifestyle choices”.

Just found an article on Slashdot, it cracked me up. Guy is complaining that his company’s main phone number is getting attacked by recruiters. They receive hundreds of phone calls every day, on every possible extension from their phone directory - getting trolled for contacts that might be potential candidates. The original poster complains that company has no way to stop this kind of phone SPAM, because there no such thing like “do not call list” for commercial lines.
But most interesting is development of ideas in comment threads about how to fight those recruiters
Here are just some of them:

• First attempt was to post recruiter’s phone number and have every thread reader to call. This did not get too well, because there was not enough of a volume in calls. No one was able to get busy signal and no one was able to upset receptionist.
• Ask calling recruiter to hold just a moment and transfer phone call to some 3rd party phone (like public time voice announcers and so on)
• Put him on hold forever.
• Transfer them to their own phone number
• Blacklisting phone numbers.
• On hold with very annoying music.
• Setting up computer with voice recognition and bot to engage the caller in pointless but realistic conversation with the robot.
• Asking recruiters long series of stupid questions to get them pissed off.
• Act paranoid. Tell recruiter that you know that he is hired by your boss and this phone call is for loyalty verification
• Every time recruiter calls set up interview and not show up.
• Ask about potential salary and then tell that you are already making twice as much.
• Forward phone to the fax machine
• Set up phone interview with potential employer and explain to them that recruiter they are hired is extremely annoying
• Hire someone with minimal wage to waste caller’s time
• Forward the call to random public payphone

According to recent poll from SEI employer’s culture is more important than compensation in motivating employing to stay at their job. 69% of participants say that they stay where they are because of workplace culture and environment. Most important factors in decision to join their company are “brand and reputation” (59%) closely followed by “culture and workplace environment” (56%)

According to HitWise (Nov 2007):

1. Google - 64.89%
2. Yahoo - 21.33%
3. MSN - 5.56%
4. ASK - 4.71%