Beyond.com is sort of the opposite of the great job aggregators. They take all of the data they develop and use it to deploy clearer and clearer understandings of the market. Rather than starting with the goal of making a great big pile of stuff, beyond.com begins with a huge pile of job boards and uses traffic patters to clarify. Their very design produces meaning and anticipates the data structures of the semantic web.

JobScience is the first Recruiting as CRM tool to be built on a major CRM platform. The company, which has legacy ATS products in the health-care niche, is spreading its wings. Their toolset is the second largest application in the Salesforce.com ecosystem and a pioneering design effort to keep the wheels greased while Salesforce.com. does its thing.

Checkster radically reduces the cost of reference checking while dramatically improving its effectiveness. Rather than spending a perfunctory 90 minutes chasing down dead ends, the recruiter asks the prospective employee to invite a dozen or so people to give brief Checkster references. The results are collected, annotated and delivered in a substantive, easy to understand report.

Tungle
For the past six months, I’ve been using Tungle to schedule and coordinate meetings. The logistics associated with trying to work out schedule details are a time sink. It’s hard, when you do things manually, to guarantee that everyone ends up on the same page.
Tungle works well as either a plugin for [...]

Review: Linkup
Toby Dayton is one of the industry’s least known, most effective entrepreneurs. JobDig, his first offering, is the midwest’s parallel to the Southwest’s Jobing. JobDig delivers recruitment advertising a combination of print, radio and web in Oklahoma, Minnesota, Iowa, Kansas, North Dakota and South Dakota.
Like Jobing’s Aaron Matos, Dayton understands that Recruiting is local [...]

Review: Broadlook
As the flow of technology accelerates, it’s easy to lose sight of the functionality of industry standards. While users are busy using and non-users are busy using something else, software evolves relentlessly. The hardest part of any review process is that as soon as you put your foot in the river, it’s a different [...]

Review: HRNX
Most terms used in HR and HR Technology are ill defined and used to grind the axe of the speaker. “Talent Management”, for example means everything from ’succession planning’ to ‘the full complement of tools and organizational processes required to harvest the maximum value from Human Capital’. One extreme is tiny and precise [...]

Review: HireVue
Today, I conducted yet another interview on Skype. I routinely use videoconferencing in either Skype or Google to do business outside of domestic American borders. Like many technical things, the rest of the world is fairly well ahead of the US in communications technologies.
It happened while we weren’t looking. While there is sure to [...]

Review: Jibe
Social Media seems to produce more than its fair share of mad inventors. In past days, I’ve seen a swarm of demos from micro-bootstrap entrepreneurs who toil in the evenings on their pet social media recruiting tool while keeping the kitchen table set with the income from their day jobs. It’s as if garage [...]