PharmiMike

It seems that LinkedIn has set it sights on Global Domination. At least in terms of “recruiting”. With 120 million members, its already a pretty big database, and yet LinkedIn is setting its sights big! They are aiming to have the GLOBAL workforce as their membership and to make the resume the  business card and the Rolodex obsolete. They’ve been increasingly realising that recruitment is the killer app!

Watch this to see how serious they are

Keynote – LinkedIn Talent Connect – Oct 2011

What does this mean for the recruiting world? OK, its “only a database” and OK, there is no human interaction, but it has massive implications for the recruitment industry.

Finally I have my Google+ account, (along with everyone else) and the key question is how will this help with recruitment and careers… I’ll be researching this over the next few weeks so check back, but in the meantime let me know of any interesting ways that you’ve found to use it to further your career or find those elusive candidates!

Also, while I’m on Google I just read this about Google’s Wallet – watch out paypal!

http://www.internetpronews.com/2011/09/20/google-wallet-your-new-age-payment-system/

Twitter is rolling out its “promoted tweets” service further in an attempt to (finally) make money from its huge user base. Will this be of any use to recruiters? Well maybe, but at the moment its only on test, but I’ll be keeping an eye on it.

Its an obvious way to go, and will be competing with Adwords et al, with the main difference being that its “time based”. ie once its gone, its gone. No doubt it will live or die on its cost per click and how effective it is. Either way it will no doubt be another tool in the recruiter’s armoury.

When Google come up with a new idea, its normally worth checking out. And cleverly, for several of these more recent ideas (Wave, Buzz) they create a pent-up demand by limiting the number of people who can get access. I’m currently one of those who doesn’t have access, and who is getting frustrated. I guess part of the reason is to “manage” roll out, just in case 50 million people start using the system on the first day… but for the rest of us, especially those who like to be (or need to be) ahead of the curve, it becomes more and more annoying to read articles about “how to use Google+ in your job search” or “7 Ways Google+ Users Are Getting More Out of Their Circles”

So come on Google – let us all have a play now.

Thanks to Cruiter Talk here are 5 Free Job Posting Boards and a brief overview with the text taken directly from their websties without modification.

Here are 5 Free job posting and Spidering sites in no particular order of preference.

Resumark.com (Text is from the Resumark.com website)

Unlike most other job websites on the Internet, we will list your jobs for free. That’s right – you can post as many jobs as you want – completely free.  We are the first website to come up with this idea and here is how it works:

ZipRecruiter.com (Text is from theZipRecruiter.com website)

ZipRecruiter offers a do it yourself web based hiring solution as an alternative to recruiters. Founded in 2010, Ziprecruiter enables companies to post to multiple free job boards with a single submission and vet all applicants through simple-to-setup online interviews. Hiring personnel can toggle between applicants answers and resumes online as they collaborate to rate and select the best candidate.

Jobvertise.com (Text is from the Jobvertise.com website)

Jobvertise basic services are FREE to employers and jobseekers because we generate our revenue through premium services and advertising on the site. As an employer using the basic services you never have to pay a fee to post jobs or search over 800,000 resumes in our database!*

JobZoom.com (Text is from the JobZoom.com website)

To make posting easier, we want to go beyond the norm. You have the option of posting INSTANTANEOUSLY, without lengthy processes, boring signups, or hassle, in under a minute your job is up and running, it activates simply through email. BUT… if you want to easily manage jobs on your very own DASHBOARD where you can edit and delete jobs right there on one screen… we recommend a free member account. click here for the dashboard area We have many more features coming and job posting will only get smoother.

JobSpider.com (Text is from the JobSpider.com website)

JobSpider.com is a free employment information exchange job board actually modeled fromhttp://www.craigslist.org. My name is Chris McGarry and I designed it because I was looking for a network administrator and it was frustrating to not see an intuitive and nicely organized free job board. The response has obviously been overwhelming and my ”small project” has blossomed into a very popular job board that, in many ways, rivals the big boys (i.e. Monster, HotJobs, etc.).

JobSpider.com is FREE to employers and jobseekers. There is no charge to post a resume, post job(s), search through the resumes, search through the jobs, or create a job alert. JobSpider.com is FREE to employers and jobseekers because I generate revenue through advertising on the site. The only fee that I will charge is to bulk import jobs for employers.

A new multi-posting tool has arrived on the block…

Vacancy Poster is a full featured web application that enables recruiters to post their vacancy simultaneously to multiple job boards. It provides similar functionality to established solutions such as Broadbean and Idibu, but free of charge.

Is this a Broadbean killer? – I’ll certainly be looking into it further.  I will also ensure that PharmiWeb.com is on their list of Job Boards.

http://www.vacancyposter.com/

When I said last week about Twitter going down., I was joking, but it seems that they’ve been suffering outages over the weekend.. oops.

With the popularity of Twitter, comes the demand for URL shorteners.  Long URLs simply don’t fit into Twitter, so a number of free URL shorteners appeared. However there has been  concern raised by some about the risks associated with using a free service to link to your valuable online content.

Well, the inevitable has happened… TR.IM is closing down, meaning that unless someone else buys their database, then millions of links will simply stop working after Jan 1st 2010.  they claim that they couldn’t monetise the service and they couldn’t compete against Bit.ly.

It is expected that someone will step in and buy the service to “rescue”  the links,  which will save the day – as long as they don’t re-direct all links to  porn or malware sites!

This situation raises the debate about putting your (shortURL) eggs into someone else’s basket. Maybe we should all build shortURL functionality into our website pages, at least then we are in control.

In case you haven’t heard the geeks talking about it, Google launched an important new baby in private in May (09), released it to a select few for testing – Its called Wave, and in essence its a completly new way of communicating in real-time, that has potential to replace email, IM (instant messenger) and more – there, I told you it was important. The concensus seems to be that it will either change the world or fail completely.

There’s a good overview on Mashable here. Suffice to say, I’m trying to get myself onto the beta testing list, to see how the whole thing might impact pharma recruitment.

I also think that Google Wave has thw potential to be a twitter beater, as it provides real time interactive chat. According to the wave website:

A wave is equal parts conversation and document.People can communicate and work together with richly formatted text, photos, videos, maps, and more.

A wave is shared. Any participant can reply anywhere in the message, edit the content and add participants at any point in the process. Then playback lets anyone rewind the wave to see who said what and when.

A wave is live. With live transmission as you type, participants on a wave can have faster conversations, see edits and interact with extensions in real-time.

Its also fully accessible to programmers as it uses an open protocol, so anyone can build their own wave system. 

Its not available to the public yet and wont be for a few months yet, but watch this space.

Google has anounced they are to be launching their own operating system.  This is significant stuff, as, although its only aimed at netbooks to start with, it will start to eat away at Microsoft’s core business. Its the first real face to face challenge that microsoft has had in this area. Google already has online versions of the most popular “office type” products which personally I’m using increasingly. Desktop versions are planned too.

Read more on the BBC News.