Stephen O'Donnell has written a blog post today looking at some the things he sees in the future of recruiting. I had a bit of trouble with the first part as I hadn't watched the new TV series he was talking about.
However, he does talk about some potential developments I agree with. The one I wanted to comment on was "Imagine every mention of an employer online, when hovered over, offered the option to “View all vacancies available with this employer”? Well, I've seen this done already, albeit within a software platform. It's a development that Innovantage made sometime last year. I'm not sure if they have it in their current offering but the way it worked was as you browse the web and hover over company names it brought up a side bar with information on those indexed in their database. One of those bits of information was a list of current vacancies.
This is an application created for other recruiters (vacancy sourcing and business development) rather than jobseekers but it's just one step from what Stephen is talking about.
The main limitation to this is that many many recruitment adverts (run by agencies) don't contain the company name. If a company is advertising "blind" they'll never be found by that method. I guess if the technology was created for jobseekers and took off then more companies may see the benefit of running named adverts.
Another feature I'd like to see is a steal from Amazon's "wish list" where candidates could create a list of companies (as they browse the internet) that they want to be informed when they are recruiting. So, as soon as an advert goes up for x company the jobseeker gets an email notification.
I'd also like to see employers insisting that agencies include the employer's name when advertising each position. Not only does it greatly improve the volume and calibre of response, but helps to spread the good news that the company is recruiting, and is added SEO for the employer too.
Obviously this would exclude those few vacancies which require to be advertised discreetly.
Posted by: Stephen O'Donnell | 13 January 2010 at 01:51 PM