The World’s Easiest Candidate Management System
2 November 2006
The Economist magazine recently contained a survey of current trends in the Human Resources (HR) field. One article, “Everybody’s doing it”, examined how companies organise and manage “talent”. The authors explained that ”[c]ompanies are also trying to give their people-managers better tools” and that “the market [for talent-management technology] will nearly double by 2009.” They make it explicit that companies of all sizes are focusing more resources on attracting, retaining and managing “talent”.
Why is this interesting? Well, for the past twelve months I have been contracted to produce bespoke vacancy / applicant management systems. My impression of this market (as a technologist on the inside) is that the products on offer are overly complex, difficult to use, expensive and cumbersome. Informal conversations with various HR professionals confirm this opinion.
So an opportunity presents itself: there exists a relatively large yet growing market, serviced by immature or inappropriate applications that users don’t feel meet their needs.
As a result I’m going to develop a web-based candidate management. This article describes how it is going work.
