recruitment musings – part 1
Impressive, what Indeed and Simplyhired and Workzoo have done to date. Scary what Yahoo and Google can do in the space. A lot of people are going ho-hum for various reasons, but heck.. there might be even more to vertical search that what we can visualise now, as John Sumser theorises.
Even though the top layer in the recruitment process value chain – advertising – is being nicely tooled with filtering, rss’ing, etc. a core issue remains unaddressed: the job seeker still faces different apply online engines, multiple registrations, multiple resume uploads, broken links, outdated ads, etc.
The most obvious and not-so-original way of circumventing this is to give the aggregator the responsibility for creating an anchor between one registration/one cv and the job ads being scraped. By doing that, we are also charging them with the responsibility of ensuring that job applications get to the right destination in time.That does not sound like a web 2.0 experience (eek!) for the job seeker, or a 2.0 undertaking (eeeek!) for the aggregator.
