What Has Your Network Done for You Today?
Image courtesy Hugh MacLeod at http://www.gapingvoid.com.
As we turn the corner and approach the end of another school year, I'm amazed by the amount of "underground" chatter in the network involving educators working together to land new positions for the 2008-2009 school year.
The market for talent in the education world has changed. A few short years ago it was a) educator looks in newspaper or b) administrator posts open position in newspaper. A simple quote from Jeff Jarvis at the Buzz Machine, "...the internet is unforgiving of needs to preserve old models and methods. It disaggregates ruthlessly."
Simple self-reflection. If you are seeking, what are you doing to make yourself clickable? If you are hiring, what are you doing to discover new talent?