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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 mrkrabo »

diegoperini wrote: post #65
hellofunk wrote: post #63

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> and will replace Android as soon as a viable alternative is presented One alternative that's been around for a while you might like if you want to continue using smart mobile devices is an operating system made by Apple (not Google), called iOS (used to be called iPhone OS but it can now be used on tablets too even some music players like iPods have it). Just throwing that out there, they have a lot of similar feat…

Is this sarcasm? (honest question)

I suppose it is, taking into account the GP said there's no "viable alternative" to Android... but iOS exists, and it's not only a viable alternative, but much better than Android in lots of ways.

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

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Post by euyyn »

DataWorker wrote: post #58
Spivak wrote: post #24

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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 peop…

Was the disk encrypted?

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

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Post by cavisne »

While the article says google doesn't want to compete with job boards...

"Millions of job seekers start their search on Google every day. And with Hire, you get a career site that’s optimized for Google Search."

I.e. You will get a site that will no doubt be right at the top of google jobs. The aggregation value of the job boards seems pretty minimal then if most candidates start on google anyway

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

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Post by kolbe »

diegoperini wrote: post #65
hellofunk wrote: post #63

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> and will replace Android as soon as a viable alternative is presented One alternative that's been around for a while you might like if you want to continue using smart mobile devices is an operating system made by Apple (not Google), called iOS (used to be called iPhone OS but it can now be used on tablets too even some music players like iPods have it). Just throwing that out there, they have a lot of similar feat…

Is this sarcasm? (honest question)

I read it more as deadpan comedy.

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

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Post by Jonnax »

YCode wrote: post #70
Jonnax wrote: post #60

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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.

Is it possible they rolled out a "Chrome" and an "everyone else" option since some options like cards are only tested by Google on Chrome, and that's why it shows up as such? Just applying Hanlon's razor here.

Well they give the chrome site to Safari on iPhone OS. So possibly but this is the company that is all about web standards, right? At least I'm sure that what someone working on Chromium/Chrome/Angular/etc would say.

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

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Post by nolok »

agentgt wrote: post #41

My company makes recruiting software and it we knew it was only a matter of time (a couple of years ago... now its obvious) before Google would enter the recruiting industry. Particularly because the major players other than LinkedIn basically rely entirely on Google. All Indeed, Monster, CareerBuilder do is buy Google Ads and then essentially resells the marketing. This is similar to the situation TripAdvisor is in…

Honestly the work to be done in search in general is still gigantic, and it's even bigger in job.

Despite having tons of stores of all sorts (app stores by microsoft apple and google, movies streaming stores like netflix, game stores like steam, ...) no one has truly found a way to solve the discoverability problem that feels really satisfying.

Some are decent, but that's mostly by sending you so many stuff at once that a few are bound to be acceptable, but that doesn't mean they were the best choices for you (eg you buy that game or look that movie, but there are other stuff you would have taken over it if the store had been able to identify them).

Job/recruiting is even harder in that it's a two way attraction, the employee need to convince you but you need to convince them back. Result being, we self impose the same "spam" of propositions by seeing tons of candidate / interviewing in tons of companies, wasting a lot of people time (let's face it, in a big share of interviews either if not both of the parties knows it won't fit after just a couple of minutes).

I have no doubt that companies who are not merely looking for marketing / reselling gimmick have a share of that space to own, Google or not.

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

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Post by emodendroket »

pasharayan wrote: post #2

It's easy to forget, but LinkedIn doesn't have rich resume data of candidates. With Hire, Google now gets rich resume & employee data - data, when coupled with search history, that can now be used to build better user profiles than before. Given this, "Hire" is (or could become) a trojan horse into replacing the network effect that LinkedIn has created.

Associating your resume/public profile and search history is sure to send a lot of people running the other way.

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

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Post by drivingmenuts »

cavisne wrote: post #73

While the article says google doesn't want to compete with job boards... "Millions of job seekers start their search on Google every day. And with Hire, you get a career site that’s optimized for Google Search." I.e. You will get a site that will no doubt be right at the top of google jobs. The aggregation value of the job boards seems pretty minimal then if most candidates start on google anyway

I wasn't even aware that Google had job listings.

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

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Post by thenipper »

Androider wrote: post #30

I was just about to select a recruitment management service. Both Lever and Greenhouse has "call us" pricing, and sadly Google Hire follows the same trend. Only Workable has a clear pricing page, which gives them a big plus in my book. Since we're on G Suite, Hire could be a natural fit but the requirement to book a demo (and the accompanying upside-down shaking to see how much money falls out of our pockets) is a bi…

I haven't used them but I manage an ATS for a large international company.

Recruiterbox is good and has upfront pricing. Jazz is decent as well. We use Jobvite ourselves and like it.

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