Web 2.0 recruitment - Google CV's
I reckon that the majority of people these days have a
CV/resume sat somewhere on their PC. I
don’t know what percentage have these on a searchable database but as the likes
of Jobster quote 85% of jobseekers being passive, then this would suggest
somewhere around this number may NOT have their CV on a searchable database.
But what will happen when Google and Microsoft provide
Word or equivalent as a free web based package. At that point, it would mean that pretty much every CV becomes
web based, indexed and searchable, assuming of course permission is
granted. But permission of course will
be very simple and in some cases, people will not even consider the
implications of this. Google and
Microsoft will I am sure make sure that people do not make personal information
public but by doing this, people will become more trusting – and so they
should!!
So, we move from X million to X zillion CV’s available
on the web. This then creates two
recruiting opportunities.
- Recruiters will be able to do more searching and find
genuine passive candidates.
- The search engines will be able to match jobs to
people in lots of ways.
Say for example you are happy for Google to market
your details for very specific job related searches by recruiters. We could end up with Poogle, the (vertical)
people search engine [OK, it’s a crap name], complete with Adwords that show
best-matched people. And maybe the
recruiter will have to pay to click on the ads; maybe the person will pay to market
themselves. Maybe the recruiter pays to
download contact details only once they have seen further details; a myriad of
options as ever.
Much talk about Web 2.0, many opinions about what will
happen, but plenty of ideas from many places.
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