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Google launches Hire, a new service for helping businesses recruit

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Re: Google launches Hire, a new service for helping businesses recruit

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Post by lettergram »

product50 wrote: post #21
lettergram wrote: post #10

I for one, will never use a Google product again. They level of creepiness and data they have on all their users is insane. I personally have switched to DuckDuckGo, Fastmail, FireFox (the mobile browser is awesome btw), and will replace Android as soon as a viable alternative is presented. Smooth sailing. The problem with Google, is they are building a repository for themselves, but also for government. Couple that…

This is not for you. This is for your company to use. It's tied to Google Suite.

I'd argue this is a tangental product.

You can easily use Google Suite, but also use Workday (which provides a similar service to Hire).

Re: Google launches Hire, a new service for helping businesses recruit

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Post by GCA10 »

pasharayan wrote: post #15
readhn wrote: post #3

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Linkedin doesnt have resumes?? Every linkedin profile is technically a resume. Dates, roles, qualifications are all there along with references.

Most resume's in non-technical fields (think management, banking, consulting, law etc) will have line items of deals/projects/responsibilities with rich information of how many people they've managed, the size of the deal, type of work etc. Most of the time people don't want to post this on LinkedIn as its too public of a space to go about bragging of your achievements at employer X. With this system, Google basicall…

It's possible to load up a traditional resume with 5-10 pages of granular detail like this, but that's actually more awkward than helpful. Once a (shorter) resume establishes basic competence, employers generally want to do the next round of screening based on face-to-face contact. Asking the resume to do all the work will lead you to hire the very best resume writers, rather than the very best candidates. (Note that strong passive candidates, who already have good jobs, do not spend a lot of time polishing their resumes.)

In non-technical fields, taking candidates through a face-to-face interview tends to be the best way of gauging grit, creativity, motivation, fit/compatibility, etc. That's especially true if the job specs are still fluid. In that case, a face-to-face interview lets both sides play around with the job description a bit.

Google is supremely good at coming up with engineering solution to engineering problems, and its decision to build an applicant tracking system is encouraging. But Google also is a bit prone to taking the same approach, no matter what. If we're talking about the full sweep of candidate assessment, that isn't an engineering problem.

Re: Google launches Hire, a new service for helping businesses recruit

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Post by mintplant »

> Hire offers businesses a cohesive applicant tracking service that’s deeply integrated with G Suite to make it easier for businesses to communicate with their candidates and track their progress through the interview process.

This seems odd coming from Google, as they're notoriously inconsistent (and/or manipulative) with communication during the application-interview-hiring process.

Re: Google launches Hire, a new service for helping businesses recruit

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Post by fara »

If you are not comfortable using Google products, we are currently using Pipedrive to mange the Recruiting pipeline and has proven to be great. Haven't tried Hire but seems to be about the same. With Pipedrive you can customize your process, setup reminders that integrate with your Google calendar, search for old canditates, use the budget field for salary, forward emails to keep the history log, add custom fields, etc. They wrote a blog post about this with some hints https://blog.pipedrive.com/2014/06/how-to-use-pipedrive-for-...

Re: Google launches Hire, a new service for helping businesses recruit

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Post by bschwindHN »

sergiotapia wrote: post #38

Man that UI is ugly. Material Design was a mistake for Google, all of their products look this way. Even the settings page on Chrome looks really bad and confusing.

I like some aspects of material design like layer heights and shadows. But you're right, this looks like someone cracked open a vanilla material design template, added some buttons, and shipped it.

Re: Google launches Hire, a new service for helping businesses recruit

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Post by derwiki »

nealmueller wrote: post #20

This product is built by the team that joined through bebop, a $380M acquisition which came with Diane Greene, who now heads Google Cloud (Chief of Cloud), and Bogomil Balkansky who now heads Hired (VP). https://venturebeat.com/2016/01/04/google-paid-380m-to-buy-b...

Small clarification in case it confused anyone else: Bogomil Balkansky heads the OP Google product, `Hire`, not the unrelated recruiting company `Hired`.

Re: Google launches Hire, a new service for helping businesses recruit

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Post by DataWorker »

Spivak wrote: post #24
_pmf_ wrote: post #16

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Couple that with the fact that they do not offer anything that deserves the moniker "customer service".

If you pay them you get good customer service. Google Play, YouTube Red, Chromecast, Chromebook, Nexus, all have pretty good service.

I completely disagree. Recently did a factory reset on my nexus only to find out that without the password for the last sync'd google account, a throwaway I don't remember, it's bricked. I can report it stolen on the device page, can easily prove to google it's my device, but I can't reset or sell or do anything with the phone. Google's response after spending days trying to fix, and talking to different support people who had wildly different answers, the only viable answer was to give me the number for Lg and wish me good luck. Never have I paid so much for a product which is broken by its own design while being entirely unsupported by the vendor. Never will I purchase a google product or service and I will tell everyone I know to do the same.

Re: Google launches Hire, a new service for helping businesses recruit

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Post by Fernanda54 »

product50 wrote: post #37
halite wrote: post #26

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Why is it useful to a company unless Google provides "value add" features that are better than thousands of other services for hiring.

It is about the integrated experience. Most big companies I know of actually hire recruiting co-ordinators for scheduling and following up with potential candidates as well as with interviewers internally. If Google can use their G-Suite products including Gmail, Calendar, Docs etc. to provide a seamless recruiting experience, I would give it a shot - especially if my company is already on G Suite. Now that Google ha…

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Re: Google launches Hire, a new service for helping businesses recruit

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Post by Jonnax »

icebraining wrote: post #40
Jonnax wrote: post #27

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It is certainly annoying with how they try and nudge other products away in subtle ways. Like like Firefox on Android, works really well. However on Google's search, they give you a stripped down version of their search results inferior to what Chrome gets. Use an addon like this: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/chrome-ua-on-... And you find out that Firefox has no problem rendering the full featured c…

Curious, I find the left version preferable. More compact, and probably faster to load too.

It's similar speeds though I've got 4G or good Wifi. But what you miss out on is the top cards. Like if you search for Weather, you can see what's the predicted forecast per hour. Or when you search for translate, you get a translate widget at the top.

And for image search, it does the old page-by-page view versus infinite scrolling which isn't too bad. But the image quality is really low.

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