Showing posts with label Recruitment. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Recruitment. Show all posts

Thursday, January 15, 2009

Google laying off 100 recruiters

This is really painful news. Google, company which always seems to be progressing has started firing people. Yes, Google is stopping connections with 100 of its people hiring services . On Google's official blog, this information was confirmed and now, company is set to cut all its connections with third party manpower suppliers.

Full article here

Yesterday, I had a discussion with this person who was saying about growth of Internet sector despite recession. We agreed that Internet media would grow despite of recession because of unlimited opportunities it offers. However, I am not sure about how things will take shape and what would be driver for growth.

Friday, December 19, 2008

Social Networking: New way of recruiting people

What do you think is the future of recruitment agencies? More and more companies are using social networking and Web 2.0 for their recruitment needs. Recruitment Agencies aka 'Headhunters' have observed downward trend and they are keen on future of their business.

It is also evident that people of so called "Digital Generation" does not communicate in same way as our seniors are doing. We love online space and it is becoming a tool to follow our interests, passion and career goals. There are plenty of groups, newsletters and communities available for one to stay in touch with latest happenings in the industry. Also, professional networking and personal referrals are becoming buzz for new age job applications. News reports says that twitter is playing roll of headhunter for many recruiters.
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My question is that if this is going to be the case for next generation job recruitment, what will be the scenario like? Is there any chance of people faking their profiles and pretending to be someone what they are actually not!