This week we had Lisa Jones joining us for the #rechangout. As is our format Alan Whitford asked the questions and Louis Welcomme (and later Mark Stephens) joined in with their own thoughts and questions. We also had a number of other guests join the call (you’ll see them in the bottom of the screen if you watch the hangout).
Lisa Jones is a regular contributor to this blog and a familiar face to anyone attending our technology showcase events (the picture below shows her and Alan hosting a debate session – or maybe doing karaoke!). Lisa is also one half of the very successful Barclay Jones business (the other half being Wayne Barclay) and advises recruiters on all this tech and social media.
The topic of the hangout was how to choose the best recruitment technology for the job (and the problem between the keyboard and the chair). The main areas discussed (as summarised by Lisa) were:
- Software companies need to front load the sales process and stop flogging the diagnostic – they need to spend more time making the client “get it” and walk away if they don’t
- Directors over 35 need to be more connected to their workforce and clients/candidates and stop giving the keys to the business away to younger recruiters who theoretically “get tech”
- Discussion about how easy (too easy!) it is to apply for jobs and what can be done to mitigate this risk to the recruitment process
- Expectations of recruitment technology (which includes social platforms like LinkedIn and Twitter) should be more realistic and aligned with business goals
- Every recruiter is a digital recruiter – what are recruiter manager/owners/directors doing about this? How are they devising strategies to capitalise on and control this?
As well as watching the hangout you should check out Wayne’s blog on “Recruitment Technology PIBKAC 3 Having a Recruitment Technology Strategy a CIO would be Proud of” and one I wrote on The 10 things you should consider when choosing a CRM.
You should also come along to our tech showcase event on the 5th June where you can meet Lisa and Alan as well as Louis from Colleague and hopefully Mark Stephens! In fact we might just run a google+ hangout whilst we are all together.
The next official show is scheduled for 26th February with Tony Restell on the subject of “Is there still a role for job boards?”. However, due to the inordinate amount of recruitment events on that day we’re going to move Tony to a time when he can have everyone’s full attention! So, catch us next on 12th March with Sunil Bali talking about How to use Personal branding to get from ‘Now to Wow’. (you can sign up here)
Great wrap up of what was a throgoughly intereseting debate, with input from as far away as South Africa and Houston, Texas. See you all at the next one.