I just finished reading Taleo’s White Paper and live blogged it here on Job|SearchMarketing.
It was very well done. I strongly agree with its stated case, ‘With Web 2.0 functionality and best practices implemented on the career website, an organization may achieve a competitive edge in recruiting the most qualified candidate quickly, and gain financial benefits from direct cost reductions as well as opportunity cost savings and value creation due to faster recruiting process that captures higher quality candidates.’
However, it lack substance when it comes to discussing such best practices, and web 2.0 functionality and integrations. The meat of it seems more to be a rather disingenuous pitch to position ’smart’ and presumably new Taleo functionality as ‘2.0,’ and benefit from the buzz around the topic.
Onto my live blogging of the read…
At start, given the use of the term, ‘Career Site 2.0′ I’m expecting this to strongly focus on the use of social media on corporate career sites and the integration of popular social networks into such sites.
Stated focuses of the report are: next gen corporate career sites, candidate experience, opportunities to implement web 2.0 features, understanding and measuring the value of implementing a rich candidate experience.
It’s hard to communicate that, it will be valuable to me if they do it well.
