Recruitment technology (ERE conference day 1)
When talking about global recruitment, technology is a key issue. Since it’s because of technology we can actually think about working globally on recruitment issues.
I have had several verbal blogging fall outs with Marc Drees from Matchsupport over the past few weeks. However I spoke with him before the session and that was rather interesting. Unfortunately his presentation wasn’t strong. I totally agree with the point he was making: the problem is never in technology, it’s in the use of it. However, he gave an overview and talked about new wave technology, and about it being targeted. But he stopped there, no examples, not real ‘what’s happening tomorrow’ or ‘how can we act better today’. During lunch and the reception I heard many disappointed people about this and the next sessions, that was even worse.
That next session was by Peter Went and Gunnar Wass. Interesting thing they pointed out: did you know that in Europe in almost every country, the public employment job boards like Werk.nl are the biggest? Isn’t that strange? And what position should they have? Well, it became actually a boring story about standardization to make it possible to exchange information between public and private employment services. Why the private would want that wasn’t made clear, just that a lot of European tax dollars had been spent on it.
Another person talking on the future of hiring technology is Jason Goldberg, CEO at Jobster. He had an interesting story on web 2.0 and what it means. I especially liked this one:
Web 1.0 -> Get it online
Web2.0 -> Make it work. I usually say that 1.0 is the company web and 2.0 is the people web, he obviously thinks the people will make it work and I think he might actually be right about that one. The main issue however is: how to make money of it now. He talked a lot about things we have said on this blog before, so I’m not going to repeat that. Intersting to see it that Jobster is like LinkedIN or OpenBC, but for your company. So it’s a semi-closed OpenBC a-like application. Interesting to see is that, when used right, it means you have a good way to handle your open applications. The people that are saying: I like your company, when you have a opening, please let me know. But it goes much, much further. It’s about getting the message to second, third or even fourth degree contacts, building a network and using it. Of course technology isn’t worth anything with the proper use.
And I guess that sums it up. It’s not about technology, it’s about using it. It’s not about getting as many resume’s as you can, it’s about getting the right one and making that match. It’s about people business, whether you do it online or offline, whether you do it gobally or locally.
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