Five Links: Future of Mobile
Five Links: Mobile Recruiting Futures
There’s every reason to ask whether or not mobile recruiting will amount to more than a hill of beans. The evangelistas all point to the boat that everyone is about to miss. Meanwhile, people are building mobile tools that respond to the promise of native traffic. This particular view (that people will just happen to drop by your employment site) will work for the top 2500 brands. The rest of the crowd will be out some change with little in the way of results.
- The Rise of the Invisible App
If you want your app to be used, it better be invisible. “Wave one of the app revolution has been a great first step. Now you can keep track of your daily calorie intake, your personal spending against budget, find driving directions to your destination, and many other functions that help make our lives easier. But each of these apps still requires a fair bit of work, and as a result, many people aren’t sticking with them over time. This problem is compounded as more apps proliferate, and as people’s overburdened schedules continue to get crazier.” - Open Source is Eating the Software World
VC Michael Skok reviews the findings of the seventh annual Future of Open Source Survey. With over one million open source projects, the way software is developed has changed. Consider that you might be overpaying for innovation and performance when you buy a proprietary tool. - Why Your Next Phone Will Include Voice, Facial and Fingerprint Recognition
As the phone becomes the central storehouse for personal, intimate information, security looms as a huge question.
We’re headed to a time (in the pretty near future) where we have our bodies scanned multiple times each week. It will seem less and less intrusive. The use of biometric data in cell phones is the actual tipping point. - How Pixar Used Moore’s Law to Predict the Future
“Moore’s Law reflects the top rate at which humans can innovate. If we could proceed faster, we would.” - Waze CEO Noam Bardin: The Future of Mobile is Fighting for a User’s Time
Part of the profound silliness of current views of mobile as a recruiting platform is that no company will be able to compete for attention
with the consumer companies who will be crawling all over the user’s pocket (and face). Tools that don’t generate relatively immediate cash flow will simply not be able to afford to participate in the mobile ecosystem.
Bonus Link
- Can Our Keywords Reveal Our Eating Habits
It’s around the corner. The promise of Big Data is that predictive assessments will be made using data that doesn’t quite fit.
Events and More
- HRExaminer Radio : Industry News and Commentary with guests. Fridays at 11am pacific (2pm EDT) #HRX:
– Apr 26: William Uranga: Seasoned Silicon Valley Tech Recruiting Leader on Startups
– May 3: Johanna Rothman: Boston’s leading Tech Recruiting Author.
– May 10: Chris Havrilla - The Frontier Project: Re imagining the Future of HR (Omaha, May 20-21) “Wanted: Innovators, creators, culture hackers, workplace revolutionaries and leaders who can no longer stand idly by as talent is squandered.”
- iRecruit Expo (Amsterdam, June 20-21) The premier European Recruiting event. Sumser session on day two
- Social Recruiting Strategies Conference (Chicago, July 23-25) Sumser Keynote
- The HR Technology Conference (Las Vegas, Oct. 7-9, 2013) The HR Tech Industry’s town hall with Bill Kutik and cohost Steve Boese
- HRTech Europe (Amsterdam, Oct 24-25)
