From this day forward, I will be putting all new posts on my new blog .

As well as continuing to post on Central and Eastern European recruitment I will be focusing on topics I am interested in, such as how to develop passive income to lead a flexible and free lifestyle, as well as connected topics like making money online and real estate investment.

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Link: Eastern Europe faces generation crisis - International Herald Tribune.

Link: OVERSEAS RECRUITMENT - The Recruiter.

Link: Daily Star: Simply The Best 7 Days A Week :: News :: Buckski Palace.

Link: Bootstrapper » Top 100 HR Bloggers.

Link: Sourcing labour from Eastern Europe - 08/03/2005.

Link: Online Recruitment on the Rise in Eastern Europe.

Interesting PR peiece by jobs.cz I have never seen a job site have the dominance in one country that jobs.cz has in the Czech Republic. Hopefully jobpilot will gain some share to force jobs.cz to drop it's prices soon.

Link: Shortage of professional & labor skills being felt in Eastern Europe.

After a pretty quiet couple of months for postings to this blog I thought I would do a post on the background to this blog and where I would like it to go. As a recruiter based in Czech republic but active across central and Eastern Europe I started this blog to submit my thoughts on recruiting in the region and interesting articles I came across. I also thought it would be a good forum to publicise news and announcements about my company and to be honest the purpose of the blog became confused; was it a company blog or a blog about recruiting in the region? This factor together with the lack of time I was able to devote to it meant that I wanted to step back and take a look at where I would like it to go, which I had a chance to do this weekend in between mountain biking in the Austrian alps.

The short answer is I have stripped out all the company announcements etc. and taken it back to purely a blog about recruitment news/trends/gossip/whatever in Central and Eastern Europe, a subject of huge interest to me. To do this I would rather expand the scope of the blog and increase the number of authors so others with recruitment/executive search expertise in the region can contribute.

So basically would you like to submit some aricles to this blog? Id love to hear from anyone working as a recruiter or in HR anywhere in Central and Eastern Europe who would like to submit articles or links to this blog. All you will need to do is email me and I will set you up as an author and from there you can easily log on and post articles whenever you have something to say. Id especially love to hear from recruiters in Russia / CIS countries as I have tended to focus more on the Central European countries. Of course anyone working for competitors in Poland and the Czech Republic is welcome as well. Id like to keep the language of the blog to English but if you spot interesing articles in Polish/Rusian whatever please feel free ot submit them. If you want to post you can use this as a forum to publicise yourself/your company or remain anonymous depending on your preference.

For those who dont want to submit articles please feel free to leave comments to article as I'd like to stimulate more dicsussion between other recruiters in the region. I have also set up a new URL for the blog at www.ceerecruit.info

Cheers and hope to hear from some of you Dan

Dave Mendoza from the sixdegreesfromdave.com blog was over in Prague recently and I exchanged a couple of emails but wasn't able to meet up in the end. Here are links to his posts on the trip. Its always interesting to see the perspective of people visiting as living here you tend to take it all for granted.

http://sixdegreesfromdave.com/2007/04/16/prague-adventure-part-1-a-linkedin-connection-points-the-way/

http://sixdegreesfromdave.com/2007/04/16/prague-sights-sounds-st-charles-bridge-the-core-of-pragues-vibrant-cultural-life/

http://sixdegreesfromdave.com/2007/04/26/prague-tales-part-3-the-haunted-ghost-tour-in-old-square-the-clock/ 

http://sixdegreesfromdave.com/2007/05/07/prague-tales-part-4-macabre-in-kutna-hora-a-little-boy-running-thur-alleys-in-cesky-krumlov/

http://sixdegreesfromdave.com/2007/06/04/international-staffing-perspectives-brian-janecek-brno-czech-republic/

Anyone who has visited Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania recently knows about the booming economies of the three Baltic states. The labour shortage is obvious but in these former Soviet countries this takes on a whole political dimension due to the large scale migration and Russification in Soviet Times.

Discussion in the Baltic times here