March Madness Continues! Regional Finals for the FOT Talent Management Blog Power Rankings!

Is March Madness always this exhausting? Whew. Round 2 concluded and here we go with round 3. First, the winners though, and holy cow what tight races! Over 800 votes were cast in this round and here's how things shook out:

Game #17 – The Recruiter's Lounge defeats Renegade HR, 51% – 49%

Game #18 – HR Thoughts defeats jessica lee writes, 51% – 49%

Game #19 – Talented Apps defeats Cheezhead, 51% – 49%

Game #20 – Taleo defeats Punk Rock HR, 53% – 47%

Game #21 – HR Observations defeats Find + Attract, 58% – 42%

Game #22 – Your HR Guy defeats Cincy Recruiter, 54% – 46%

Game #23 - HR Bartender defeats The Recruiter Guy, 56% – 44%

Game #24 – The HR Capitalist defeats Jason Seiden, 66% – 34%

Surprised? Or was it as you predicted? Providing the post-game analysis and predictions this go round is The Recruiter Guy, Chris Hoyt. (Email subscribers, click through.)

There's no time to waste in this contest so let's get moving on Round 3. This time around, we're switching things up a bit and giving you 24 hours to vote – so polls will close at 1pm EST on Thursday. Got it? And now here are the Regional Finals match ups:

The "Shaquille O'Neal Twitter Account" Regional:

Game #25 – The Recruiter's Lounge (highlight post here) VS. HR Thoughts (highlight)

The "Dick Vitale Needs to Shut the **** Up" Regional

Game #26 – Talented Apps (highlight) VS Taleo (highlight)

The "Our Team Stinks But You'll Work For Us After You Grow Up" Regional

Game #27 – HR Observations (highlight) VS Your HR Guy (highlight)

The "AIG Wrote a Check in 2008 But Couldn't Back Out of the Sponsorship Because They Were Legally Bound" Regional

Game #28 - HR Bartender (highlight) VS The HR Capitalist (highlight)

Polls are now closed! 865 votes is where we've capped it. Any votes coming in after 1pm EST are null and void, folks!

FOT Background Check

Jessica Lee
Jessica Lee is director of digital talent strategy for Marriott International. In this newly minted role, she leads their talent related digital and social media efforts for the Marriott International family of brands... which means she blogs, tweets and plays on Facebook all day. Kind of. In what she'll quickly tell you is her dream job, JLee is working to differentiate and position Marriott to most effectively optimize innovative technologies to address the brand's business needs in the talent space.  Check out the baseline of what Marriott has done on Facebook, or in this profile via Fortune Magazine in which they are called out as a social media star. Pretty freaking cool what they've done already... and she'll work to take it even further to the next level. Don't be fooled by that fancy pants digital stuff though, she's still an everyday HR gal in the trenches at the core. SPHR certified, a decade or so into trench HR life... she can whip up a corrective action plan or source for your purple squirrel in a heartbeat. Talk to Jessica via EmailLinkedInTwitter or Facebook... See Jessica's riffs and rants on Fistful of Talent here...

One Comment

  1. Jason Seiden says:

    KD, I couldn’t have lost to a better guy! Keep crushin’ it, buddy!

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