{"id":456,"date":"2006-05-12T01:00:18","date_gmt":"2006-05-12T09:00:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/systematichr.com\/?p=456"},"modified":"2006-05-12T01:00:18","modified_gmt":"2006-05-12T09:00:18","slug":"online-dating-applied-to-hr-technology","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/systematichr.com\/?p=456","title":{"rendered":"Online Dating Applied to HR Technology"},"content":{"rendered":"

Sometimes there’s a post<\/a> so thought provoking it just begs to be blogged:<\/p>\n

In my last post<\/a> I wrote that online dating services would show us where online recruiting was headed. I believe this to be the case because they are both expressions of the same basic problem: how do I find a person who (fill in the blank). While the requirements may change, the processes have significant similarities…<\/p>\n

And yet, if you look at Match.com, there is no analog to eBay’s member ratings. At first, this seems like a stunning omission: good user feedback scores on members would be hugely valuable to members and by extension to Match, which would obtain a proprietary advantage over other dating sites the same way Amazon’s customer ratings give them an advantage over Barnes & Noble.\u00a0 ((Kingsbury, Colin, May 11, 2006.\u00a0 “Social Computing and Reputation Systems” retrieved from HRMDirect.com on May 11, 2006.))<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

So between fits of laughter, I think back to the Web 2.0 discussion<\/a> about how all this internet technology is supposed to be changing our work lives and while the applications might be out there, once again I just don’t see it.\u00a0 Call me a non-visionary.\u00a0 However, you do have sites like LinkedIn where users are posting “kudos” type ratings on each other and giving the virtual thumbs up, these “networking” sites may not be replacing standard recruiting as soon as the advocates state.<\/p>\n

I guess the question is how we can effectively replace the “first date.”\u00a0 I’m not so excited about eBay ratings as you’re not really going to pass up a date on those terms anyway (unless the rating is from a good friend of yours who has first hand knowledge, the rating is meaningless).\u00a0 And let’s face it, the only real on-line dating service that seems to be working with any measure of success is probably eHarmony.com where the premise is that you don’t get to meet your interviewee until you’ve been matched by the service, and anonymously trade dozens of anonymous messages back and forth to prove your interest and compatibility (So I’ve been told by friends).<\/p>\n

If the above is the only successful measure of on-line dating, it would make sense mimicking unsuccessful dating services would yield unsuccessful recruiting sites.\u00a0 However, if there is a conversion for successful recruiting, would a recruiter and company actually invest all that time and effort into not meeting someone?\u00a0 Recruiters already have all the tools:\u00a0 they can quantitatively measure candidates, they can message and talk as much as they want until they are satisfied there’s a match.\u00a0 What makes eHarmony successful is the anonymity differentiator.\u00a0 In a business world, that’s just not sensible.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Sometimes there’s a post so thought provoking it just begs to be blogged: In my last post I wrote that online dating services would show us where online recruiting was headed. I believe this to be the case because they…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_coblocks_attr":"","_coblocks_dimensions":"","_coblocks_responsive_height":"","_coblocks_accordion_ie_support":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2,15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-456","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hr-technology","category-talent-acquisition"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/systematichr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/456","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/systematichr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/systematichr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/systematichr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/systematichr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=456"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/systematichr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/456\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/systematichr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=456"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/systematichr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=456"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/systematichr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=456"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}