What is your strategy?

Reading a Post from Peter Gold this morning where he discusses the issue I have been struggling with since last Tuesday when I got the demo of LinkedIn RPS and a client meeting the previous Friday.

Where does the recruitment work flow start and how many options do you need to find CV's and candidates as there are loads (ie Daxtra SS2, iProfile, Broadbean Stream, Actonomy, CV Job Databases, LinkedIn RPS, Google, Broadlook and that is just the popular stuff...)

All the cloud based services just make it easier to find candidates but that is not a recordable recruitment activity, Long listing is! So at the point you move from Finding to Talking you need to start the tracking!

Which database will be the first to make it easy to store all this activities OR is it important at all!

You decide

LinkedIn RPS

Are you going to go for it? Did you see it last night and will it be worth the money?

What am I speaking about? The LinkedIn Recruiter Professional Services!

If you haven’t heard of it you will soon and the sales boys and girls from LinkedIn who never wanted to know you will now be knocking you doors down looking for money per user per year, from what I hear the number will be high (but lots less than a placement, the sales people will tell you!)

What does it do?

Each recruiter get a dashboard, a desktop and 50 Inmails to anyone in the entire 50 million members of LinkedIn, in what I think are batches of 20 at a time (but I may have misheard that). Teams can share project folders and see candidates and Searches they are working on.

I worry as a user of LinkedIn but it was always too good to be true, if you post you details on line and don’t control them then someone will sell the rights to them!

I am still trying to work out how this will fit into many companies but more when I have thought it through, if you haven’t seen it have a look and I would love to hear you opinions.

Bullhorn Live

I have now been quiet on the Bullhorn implementation for 3 weeks deliberately as we are dealing with the go live issues, I will detail them all in summary soon.

Suffice to say it has been as much fun as every other system I have changed in my 10 years