Yeah, what he said!

Over at CharlotteRecruiting.com, Jim Durbin says some very nice things about New Equities and this blog (and yes, our ears are burning):

Who is our favorite recruiting blog?  Why, it was and always has been the New Equities Weblog.  While the rest of us were chatting through the Recruiting.com community about theory and practice and goofiness, New Equities was learning how to use their blog to hire people in their local community.

The whole reason I chose Charlotte as one of my local sites (I also write StlRecruiting, KCRecruiting, and SeattleRecruiting) is because of New Equities.

Their model is based on community, the building and sustaining of them as candidate pools for New Equities clients.  In a world where everyone is decrying the lack of quality consultants, New Equities is the only company I've seen take the step to doing so.

Jim was formerly a top recruiter for kforce and now works as a consultant specializing in online media and employment branding, so it's especially high praise coming from him. He has been a reader and fan of New Workforce for some time, in fact in 2005 he nominated us for Recruiting.com's Best Blog Awards (Taleo's blog won in our category, but it was still quite an honor to be in the company of heavy-hitter blogs from Google, Microsoft, SimplyHired and Indeed.com).

Anyway, thanks to Jim for his kind words and enthusiasm for our model. We definitely want "community" to be something more than the buzzword du jour, and that means making connections with our members offline as well as online. If you're a New Equities consultant, or a member of our larger community, let us know how we're doing and (more importantly) what we should be doing.

UPDATE: Another workforce blogger, Jim Kissane, also sends out props: "New Equities is a progressive collection of thinkers that always challenge and inspire me." Again, we're blushing. (But you still included the comment. - Ed.  Well, yeah...)