I've been on both sides of the hiring process. From my experience (and a past dream to compete with these sites):
- There is a HR-XML standard, which defines a resume/cv standard. The site should allow you to upload one, that fills in the profile. Spending an hour filling in forms for stuff that's mostly in my resume already is a pain. Especially doing it across multiple sites.
- Offer more to the job posters than just posting. Give them tools to make it eaiser to sort through the applicants that they want to see. IME one job posting generated 200+ emails from the job site, with the applicants resumes mangled. The hiring manager spent 1-2 printing them, and another 3-4 hours reading through all of them just to see which ones matched the base skills posted. Only 30-40 did. Go through this process one or two times, and recruiters seem like a good idea to companies.
- Standardize the job posting text. "About the company" is fine, but I don't want to decipher the marketing crap of why the company is great just to find out what the position is for. For me at least, tell me about the job first, then the company. I would love it also if I could hide the "about the company" text.
- Some kind of feedback loop to all those applied. The posting site knows who applied. Why not give the hiring people a nice little button "We hired this person".. that sends an email to everyone else stating that the position has been filled.
- Some way for seekers to markup their resumes and point it to the job description. So if Company A requires 8 yrs of C++ experiance, I can highlight that section in the job posting and link it to the relevant sections in my resume.
Why do people try get their friends to see a movie that the like? Why do people try to convince you that the corner deli has better food than McDonald's.. Hell remember the ol' "whose fries are better? McDonald's or Burger King" argument?
This is not specific to software, it's in just about all aspects of life. People enjoy something so throughly that they want to share with everyone else. Or they just think they're so elite that everyone else should be doing what they do.
I think the UI is one of the biggest reasons why people hate Notes so much. It doesn't look or function much like the rest of the email apps, especially Eudora. Add on top of that that many corporations don't extend it's use beyond typical email and you have situations where even your most PC illiterate people are asking "WTF? Why can't we just use Eudora or Outlook?"
I love Lotus Notes/Domino. I think the ideas and everything are put together pretty nicely. But I'm a Geek that loves ideas, not your typical user.
I think Notes is losing ground mostly because people are realizing that they no longer want to build in-house apps to do this or that, or even customize anything. They just want it off the shelf and don't care if they have to have 20+ programs running at the same time to do their job.
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I've been on both sides of the hiring process. From my experience (and a past dream to compete with these sites):
- There is a HR-XML standard, which defines a resume/cv standard. The site should allow you to upload one, that fills in the profile. Spending an hour filling in forms for stuff that's mostly in my resume already is a pain. Especially doing it across multiple sites.
- Offer more to the job posters than just posting. Give them tools to make it eaiser to sort through the applicants that they want to see. IME one job posting generated 200+ emails from the job site, with the applicants resumes mangled. The hiring manager spent 1-2 printing them, and another 3-4 hours reading through all of them just to see which ones matched the base skills posted. Only 30-40 did. Go through this process one or two times, and recruiters seem like a good idea to companies.
- Standardize the job posting text. "About the company" is fine, but I don't want to decipher the marketing crap of why the company is great just to find out what the position is for. For me at least, tell me about the job first, then the company. I would love it also if I could hide the "about the company" text.
- Some kind of feedback loop to all those applied. The posting site knows who applied. Why not give the hiring people a nice little button "We hired this person".. that sends an email to everyone else stating that the position has been filled.
- Some way for seekers to markup their resumes and point it to the job description. So if Company A requires 8 yrs of C++ experiance, I can highlight that section in the job posting and link it to the relevant sections in my resume.
Why do people try get their friends to see a movie that the like? Why do people try to convince you that the corner deli has better food than McDonald's.. Hell remember the ol' "whose fries are better? McDonald's or Burger King" argument?
This is not specific to software, it's in just about all aspects of life. People enjoy something so throughly that they want to share with everyone else. Or they just think they're so elite that everyone else should be doing what they do.
I think the UI is one of the biggest reasons why people hate Notes so much. It doesn't look or function much like the rest of the email apps, especially Eudora. Add on top of that that many corporations don't extend it's use beyond typical email and you have situations where even your most PC illiterate people are asking "WTF? Why can't we just use Eudora or Outlook?"
I love Lotus Notes/Domino. I think the ideas and everything are put together pretty nicely. But I'm a Geek that loves ideas, not your typical user.
I think Notes is losing ground mostly because people are realizing that they no longer want to build in-house apps to do this or that, or even customize anything. They just want it off the shelf and don't care if they have to have 20+ programs running at the same time to do their job.