Comments on: Secret Ingredients to Great Viral Recruitment Video http://jobmob.co.il/blog/viral-recruitment-video/ JobMob is about bringing together job seekers and jobfinders to find jobs in Israel and all over the world. Our motto is "all together now." The blog is filled with straight-talking advice based on real world experience and lots of humor thrown in. Sun, 12 Feb 2012 02:04:40 +0000 hourly 1 By: josh http://jobmob.co.il/blog/viral-recruitment-video/#comment-6947 josh Sun, 17 Feb 2008 14:54:42 +0000 http://jobmob.co.il/blog/viral-recruitment-video/#comment-6947 It was partly meant to be a humourous Abraham Simpson's saying, but now that I think about it, young people usually have no life other than work or play. Since the alternative to work is either vacation (need money) or going out (need money), then they can stay at the office late and be with the other cool people at work. This creates a certain 'work late' ethic or putting in hours that family people might not be able, or frankly interested in putting in. On a project I'm involved in now (that is not running behind schedule, yet), I was told that someone worked until five in the morning last week and another who came in on Sunday. This bothers me. Both screwed up their weekend and this will affect their whole week, and frankly, I don't know if they were too productive either. I first started working at a young office. It was fun, (no google perks though) but everyone enjoyed the pressure together, no one felt the need to leave at 5 or even 7pm. In any case, they couldn't. Because they were staying up late, they came in late. So if someone else would want to leave at 6pm, they were leaving early. It was partly meant to be a humourous Abraham Simpson’s saying, but now that I think about it,
young people usually have no life other than work or play. Since the alternative to work is either vacation (need money) or going out (need money), then they can stay at the office late and be with the other cool people at work. This creates a certain ‘work late’ ethic or putting in hours that family people might not be able, or frankly interested in putting in.

On a project I’m involved in now (that is not running behind schedule, yet), I was told that someone worked until five in the morning last week and another who came in on Sunday. This bothers me. Both screwed up their weekend and this will affect their whole week, and frankly, I don’t know if they were too productive either.

I first started working at a young office. It was fun, (no google perks though) but everyone enjoyed the pressure together, no one felt the need to leave at 5 or even 7pm. In any case, they couldn’t. Because they were staying up late, they came in late. So if someone else would want to leave at 6pm, they were leaving early.

]]> By: Ilan http://jobmob.co.il/blog/viral-recruitment-video/#comment-6886 Ilan Fri, 15 Feb 2008 00:46:33 +0000 http://jobmob.co.il/blog/viral-recruitment-video/#comment-6886 OK - I officially eat my words. Sign me up! :) OK – I officially eat my words. Sign me up! :)

]]> By: Jacob Share http://jobmob.co.il/blog/viral-recruitment-video/#comment-6878 Jacob Share Thu, 14 Feb 2008 19:16:55 +0000 http://jobmob.co.il/blog/viral-recruitment-video/#comment-6878 To remove all doubt, I just had a quick chat with the CEO of the company, <a href="http://www.linkedin.com/pub/0/1b0/66b" rel="nofollow">Josh Abramson</a>. It's real :) To remove all doubt, I just had a quick chat with the CEO of the company, Josh Abramson.

It’s real :)

]]> By: Jacob Share http://jobmob.co.il/blog/viral-recruitment-video/#comment-6875 Jacob Share Thu, 14 Feb 2008 15:14:56 +0000 http://jobmob.co.il/blog/viral-recruitment-video/#comment-6875 josh - why not? Ilan - at least some of the main lip dubbers do seem to work there based on their Vimeo profile pages. And no, not all atypical business practices like office beer vanished with the Bubble. You should what goes on at Google, but that's a very extreme example. As for youth- remember, some people define experience as just knowing all the ways to fail. Take that as you want. josh – why not?

Ilan – at least some of the main lip dubbers do seem to work there based on their Vimeo profile pages. And no, not all atypical business practices like office beer vanished with the Bubble. You should what goes on at Google, but that’s a very extreme example.

As for youth- remember, some people define experience as just knowing all the ways to fail. Take that as you want.

]]> By: Ilan http://jobmob.co.il/blog/viral-recruitment-video/#comment-6859 Ilan Thu, 14 Feb 2008 04:10:53 +0000 http://jobmob.co.il/blog/viral-recruitment-video/#comment-6859 I dunno about that video - do those people actually work there? Seems like they hired a bunch of hipster models and semi-coreographed the whole thing. I thought those big spacious offices with such attypical business practices like drinking beer and playing ping-pong in the office, which is completely populated by twenty-somethings, vanished during the tech-bust. Am I wrong? If not, sign me up, too! Josh - come on, don't be an old fart! But you do have a point. Only young people = lack of leaders with experience. Doesn't sound like a viable business to me. I dunno about that video – do those people actually work there? Seems like they hired a bunch of hipster models and semi-coreographed the whole thing. I thought those big spacious offices with such attypical business practices like drinking beer and playing ping-pong in the office, which is completely populated by twenty-somethings, vanished during the tech-bust. Am I wrong? If not, sign me up, too!

Josh – come on, don’t be an old fart! But you do have a point. Only young people = lack of leaders with experience. Doesn’t sound like a viable business to me.

]]> By: josh http://jobmob.co.il/blog/viral-recruitment-video/#comment-6628 josh Wed, 06 Feb 2008 15:57:26 +0000 http://jobmob.co.il/blog/viral-recruitment-video/#comment-6628 I don't know if I want to work for a place where there are only young hip people. I don’t know if I want to work for a place where there are only young hip people.

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