Zoominfo has been promoting the heck of its PowerSearch service over the last few weeks in ERE. One of the promo materials is this white paper on 07 recruitment predictions; obviously a bit self-serving but it includes a few comments from known names in the US online recruitment space, which you might want to track during the year. My guess is that Zoominfo has the potential to be as locally useful as LinkedIn is shaping up to be.
[...] When I check out a new online tool or service from outside the region which can be used to identify and engage talent, I almost always have to stop myself and think about its applicability to Australasia. There might be some showstoppers, be it the content only covering countries other than Aus/NZ, or specific laws which may not be applicable locally, etc. I was thinking something along those lines when I kept reading at all the buzz and advertising surrounding zoominfo in the industry’s online portals, which i had reported on a few days back. Not surprisingly, the business is US focused, which means that’s where the mass of data is relevant to. Interestingly though, zoominfo via its sales manager Eric Osborne was kind enough to send a factsheet indicating the volumes of what I would call regional relevant data. [...]