Simply Hired Releases 2013 Mobile Recruiting Outlook Who: Simply Hired®, a technology company that operates one of the world’s largest job search engines, today released its 2013 Mobile Recruiting Outlook. What: Mobile technology is changing the way people search –… 2013 Mobile Recruiting Outlook (Whitepaper)
Recruiting leaders that ignore mobile should be waterboarded according to Dr. John Sullivan, a well-known thought leader in HR. Career sites are not mobile friendly but the way we consume information is going via the mobile web at a huge pace. Due to the explosion of the smartphone and tablet sales, mobile internet usage will be larger than fixed internet in 2013 [read more about this in our Future of Mobile Recruiting series]. In fact, 92% of of the Fortune 100 companies ingnore the mobile channel. In the top 35 US Firms only 4 Career Sites are mobile-friendly and 1 company offers a native mobile (career) app.
“The recruitment industry took 15 years to migrate from print media to digital media”, says Dave Martin who’s Head of Mobile and Product Strategy at BraveNewTalent. “Social media has kickstarted recruitment innovation and created a new focus on community based recruitment. But disappointingly the employers have failed to maximize on mobile web or mobile apps. Given the intrinsic partnership between social and mobile web, it is crucial for employers around the wold to recognise and engage with mobile”.
Mobile is growing fast, are you?
Dutch product development Cureka! introduced for global recruitment market
Cureka! Is officially launched on August 7th in the Dutch and the world’s first tool that enables recruiters and managers to screen resumes on the iPad and simultaneously enrich and classify CVs. By adding ‘(dis)likes’, ‘sticky notes’ and photos, CVs become more ‘social’. High quality talent pools can be built with a touch on a screen. By making the screening of CVs an activity independent of the office, the recruitment process is shortened and recruiters and managers can on average spend one hour less per recruited candidate.Screening CVs with iPad becomes ‘social’ and enriches talent pools