CollegeRecruiter.com Wins Best Blog Awards

Recruiting.com just announced the category winners for the 2005 Best Blog awards. CollegeRecruiter.com was nominated in three categories and we won two of them.

The first award was for the Best Recruiting Advice Blog. Of 571 respondents, 119 (20.8 percent) voted for the CollegeRecruiter.com Blog. Runners up were David Perry, Recruiting Career, Steve Levy’s Blogging Outside the Box, Recruiters Dumping Ground, Talentism, and Let’s Dream Big.

The second award was for the Best Human Resources Blog. Of 488 respondents, 149 (30.5 percent) voted for the CollegeRecruiter.com Blog. Runners up were Michael Specht’s Blog, Jason Corecello’s blog, Online Hiring In China, Systematic Viewpoints, Dub Dubs – systematichr, and El Foro De Los Recuros Humanos.
The CollegeRecruiter.com Insights by Candidates Blog, which we launched just a few days before the start of voting, also did quite well given its age. In voting for the Best Job Seeker Blog, there were 818 respondents. Gretchen’s JobsBlog landed in first place with 186 votes (22.7 percent) and the CollegeRecruiter.com Insights by Candidates Blog was a runner up 54 votes (6.6 percent).
This contest wasn’t about winners and losers. It was an effort to recognize the effort being made by some very good people and organizations to share their knowledge. The writers of these blogs understand that they’re building a community and learning as they go. The better blogs tend to have a focus, but even the best sometimes stray into areas that are outside of those areas of focus. And that’s okay, because readers of blogs tend to read for content, but the value that they place upon the content depends largely upon the credibility of the author. So when the authors stray a bit, they’re also making themselves better understood by their readers and that can only be healthy.
To all of the nominees, congratulations!