Friday 23 December 2011

Predictions for 2012

It seems to be the time for predictions of 2012 and no one seems to do any for the UK recruitment technology market

So here are mine:-

  1. A recruitment specific version of Data.com will emerge for UK based recruitment business, like an iProfile for Contacts!
  2. The Cloud (or IaaS) will be treated just like any other application, you will be able to move you business from provider to provider based on the rate and the service the offer.
  3. Groups of applications that work well together will form stronger ties and more things like the Bullhorn Marketplace will emerge
  4. Someone will master the art of reverse IP look ups for Hot Candidates and Consultants will immediate alerts when a candidate has looked at a Job or one of you pages on your website. Salesforce.com sales teams  are spookily good at this! 
  5. Someone will crack Predictive analytics for the Recruitment Sector like Insight Squared are trying to do, it could be Cube19
  6. Nothing will be more important that our data connection, where ever you are. Our ability to deal with lost connections (be it Office data lines, Wireless access or 3G coverage) will get worse and worse and business connections will be critical. What do you do when you loose connections?
  7. Look out for Job Science getting a foothold in the UK market, Bullhorn will continue to thrive and other databases will make integration easier
  8. LinkedIn will restrict access unless you are paying for it and no one will be ready for it
  9. Drag and Tag v2 will do clever stuff (so Guy keeps telling me!)
  10. No recruiter will buy any servers ever again!