Recruitment 2.0
I came across an interesting article today about how Web 2.0 will profoundly change recruiting as a result of the next generation's behaviors (My Blog is my Resume).
The author states that due to the web addiction of the new generation the access to them needs to be redefined. Recruitment over the web will even increase with a focus on actively looking for new employees in user forums, on social networks, in niche sites or finding them commenting on blogs.
They will not trust any nice marketing messages about company culture but check within their social networks built in the web to verify information. Most possibly they will come across bloggers from that company who will give them better insight than any corporate webpage could ever do. Information cannot be restricted, if a company's work environment is terrible people will learn about it.
This new generation will expect to be judged by their ideas, not their experience. Resumes will become irrelevant. Companies are expected to search the web reading their blogs and those of coworkers referring them and having vouched for their intelligence and work ethic. View this discussion on Robert Scoble's blog.
This maybe a trend in the US today and usually it comes over to Europe after a while. Populations with highly technical skills generally are the first to adopt. So this means we need to adapt our recruiting strategies for software engineers very soon!
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10:23PM Nov 07, 2006
by Volker Seubert in Human Resources |
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