It is virtually 10 years to the day when I first started looking into e-recruitment software and here we are again; but this time it is social media technology. So what can I take from the last 10 years?
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We have HR in the blue corner and Recruitment Agencies in the red corner. HR look as if they are at long last paused to conquer with vast sums of money, CEO focus on talent management, applicant tracking systems, fancy career sites and more widgets than you can fit in a Tesco EXTRA.
But is it enough or are HR not focused on using some the tools at their disposal?
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I did a quick shop online yesterday and other than a number of bugs/errors on the site I managed to complete my shop; payment confirmation received. Now just a matter of Royal Mail NOT leaving my parcel and me having to go and collect it and some totally inconvenient time.
And that I thought that was the end of that.
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So the cat is out of the bag (at long last) and Taleo are now the proud owners Vurv. But what does this really mean to the customers and, the market overall?
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Looks like Vurv being acquired by SAP was nothing more than a red hot smoking rumour?! We even have a response from a real Vurv employee - in denial of course. Not that we could realistically expect anything else other than silence.
There are also a few comments on the same issue at The Human Capitalist.
But rumour or not there is some sense in the thought i.e. SAP and Oracle buying a Talent Management Technology vendor.
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Recruiter magazine ran a short article around the recent changes from Google:
'Google changes may see advert costs rise tenfold'.
OK, headlines are written to get the article noticed and the first paragraph is written to get the second paragraph read and so on but if an article such as this is to be written at least give some accurate facts and EVIDENCE.
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So Sainsbury's are expanding their Homewares offering even further. Personally, I think they should focus on being better than Waitrose at food rather than chasing non-food. I think they could otherwise end up being back where they were a few years ago; confused, downbeat and lost in the middle of nowhere land!
But what do I know?
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With all the interest in Twitter at the moment, which includes a possible valuation of up to $150 million as discussed on Techcrunch, it is only a matter of time until the SPAM gets ever greater followed by job alerts.
So how could Twitter be used for jobs but more importantly why?
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Earlier on this month Rocketboom founder Andrew Baron decided to sell off his twitter account as blogged on Bloggersblog (of all places!).
There's also a LOT of discussion about this on Chris Brogan's blog as well.
Myspace profiles have also been previously sold so is there an angle that recruiters need to be aware of on social sites?
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