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.
OK, I posted 5 jobs on TweetMyjobs.com, selected at random from my current top jobs. According to their stats, I recieved the following clicks…
- Senior Manager of Health Economics (50 view, 59 clickthroughs)
- GLOBAL Regulatory Affairs Director (2/3)
- Associate Medical Director (56/59)
- Marketing Project Manager (58/56)
- CRA – Scotland (6/0)
Posting the jobs in the first place, was a manual process, and I found no way of automatically posting them through an API, so long term its not particularly viable.
When you post your job (through the very clunky interface), you select a preferred channel. They then push the job out to an appropriate twitter account. They have ”5000″ channels. However., many of these “channels” have only a handful of followers, and you know as well as I do that a good proportion of these will be “twitiots” who are spam or will follow anything in the hope they get their own followers up. You can re-weet too (for a cost), but its not automatic, so you’d need to log back in and re-weet (as I did) .
Overall I’m not that impressed with the experience. I certainly won’t be paying for it. Having said that, I think it’s early days for Twitter recruitment, and I think that it has some way to go before people look at it as a useful way of finding jobs. I dont think any of the people that clicked on the twitter posts actually applied for a job, so quite franky I have better ways to be spending my day.
Unless you’ve had a better experience….
PharmiMike Rating 2/10
This is an interesting tool along the lines of what I’ve been thinking about for some time. Give the candidates a tool that allows THEM to track their job applications.
http://www.careerunleashed.com. Apparently it provides:
- Calendar that automatically populates
- To-Do List with alerts/reminders based on progress of each lead
- Contact database with history of your interactions on each job lead
- Ability to store multiple resumes and other job related documents
- Ability to measure effectiveness of resumes
- Ability to track each lead in your pipeline over time
Sounds useful, but would candidates pay $10/month for it? I’m not sure. Also I guess its only as good as the information you put in, and we all know how unreliable we all are!
Overall though, I was discussing a very similar concept at PharmiWeb recently. Perhaps we should investigate further..???
Simple to install and use. At last a real application for Twitter! It presents twitter chat in a kind of micro-forum style. I’ve installed in on PharmiMike.com and will look to test it out on PharmiWeb.com too.
Tweetboard - Micro Forum
This looks interesting… essentially a “micro-forum”
“Tweetboard is a fun and engaging micro-forum type application for your website. It pulls your Twitter stream in near real-time (max 1 min delay), reformatting tweets into threaded conversations with unlimited nesting. Conversations that spun off the original conversation are also threaded in-line, giving your site visitors full perspective of what’s being discussed”
Possible use for customer support?
