Comments on: Reckitt Benckiser's Recruitment Blog

By: Bas van de Haterd

Bas van de Haterd — Thu, 16 Jul 2009 18:33:54 +0000

ok, couldn’t leave it at that…

Decided to write an English post as well on my English RecTec blog.

http://www.rectec.nl/2009/07/16/reckitt-benckiser-recruitment-blog-2/

By: Bas van de Haterd

Bas van de Haterd — Thu, 16 Jul 2009 18:05:51 +0000

Since my blog will be in Dutch (although I could of course translate it to the English version of Rectec.nl). But I think RB totally missed the point with this blog.

It’s a recruitment blog, who cares? Will potentiel job seekers believe you? I doubt it. Why do people, young talented people, want to work for you? Because they think they can learn from the people within the company.

A recruitment blog should never be recruitment orientated in my opinion. I Holland I started software-innovators for Sogyo, a small software company. They blog about software innovations, about their vision on the work, about the developments. And from their, other engineers say: He, I want to work for those guys.

By: Tara@Ubaglu

Tara@Ubaglu — Thu, 09 Jul 2009 15:08:00 +0000

Hi Stephen
I have been working with Reckitt Benckiser on their online awareness-raising project (which is aimed at graduates and early career professionals).
It is still early days for the blog and the Twitter account and we know things need improving – but we just needed to get people started.
You raised a couple of things we hadn’t considered so thank you for that, we really appreciate your comments – and in fact comments from anyone who is interested in this area.
Ultimately this is about sharing what happens at RB in ways that are relevant – not just what we assume to be relevant – so feedback is essential.

And I know Ed would be really pleased to feel that people are valuing his contributions as it does add somewhat to his daily tasks in the office!