Formal Job Offer Made & Accepted Over Twitter!
Have you heard of Red Monk? RedMonk is the first analyst firm built on open source. They are dedicated to providing high quality research at no cost, and believe that the dialog that follows is beneficial to us, the community and their clients.
Not only is RedMonk redefining the typical research house, but they are also redefining the way they hire employees. Their most recent analyst was hired over Twitter. Amazing! Check out his twitter post on being offered and accepting the job via Twitter.
Here is what Tom Raftery said about his new job at RedMonk:
“I have long admired the RedMonk model of open sourcing their (our) analysis and so, when James Governor of RedMonk offered me the opportunity to work professionally for RedMonk doing Green tech and sustainability research I nearly bit his hand off! So effective immediately I am an Industry Analyst specialising in the Green tech area. Rock on!”
Comments
Hey thanks for calling this out. Nice to meet you. Someone was asking for an HR strategist recently and now i will know who to refer to. But this hiring was actually pretty traditional for us- I had to write a job spec and everything... ;-)
Seriously, we hired our first employee, Cote, on the strength of his blog, podcast, personality and some knowledge we had about his chops as a development lead at BMC. We hired him before we'd ever met him face to face. It's worked out very well. He is a beyond fantastic employee, and has done a huge amount to help build our brand, communities and company.
Twitter is just a more social way to get things done than email. It feels more immediate and personal, frankly. So its no surprise we'd make an offer to Tom on twitter. last century you'd send a letter, I guess.
Posted by: James Governor | May 25, 2008 04:17 PM