Comments on: eHire http://www.johnsumser.com/2009/02/ehire/ Recruiting News and Views | What You'll Need To Know Next Fri, 12 Mar 2010 16:47:04 -0600 hourly 1 By: Five Scenarios for the Future of Recruiting 6: Invasion of the Shallybots : ERE.net http://www.johnsumser.com/2009/02/ehire/comment-page-1/#comment-60278 Five Scenarios for the Future of Recruiting 6: Invasion of the Shallybots : ERE.net Thu, 18 Feb 2010 15:45:34 +0000 http://www.johnsumser.com/?p=400#comment-60278 [...] who imagined that the future revolved around the “eHarmony for Jobs.”(The idea was tired a couple of years ago.) I regaled him with stories of Intellimatch, itzBig, JobFox, and 40 other [...] [...] who imagined that the future revolved around the “eHarmony for Jobs.”(The idea was tired a couple of years ago.) I regaled him with stories of Intellimatch, itzBig, JobFox, and 40 other [...]

]]> By: Five Scenarios for the Future of Recruiting 6: Invasion of the Shallybots | HR Examiner with John Sumser http://www.johnsumser.com/2009/02/ehire/comment-page-1/#comment-60260 Five Scenarios for the Future of Recruiting 6: Invasion of the Shallybots | HR Examiner with John Sumser Thu, 18 Feb 2010 12:20:46 +0000 http://www.johnsumser.com/?p=400#comment-60260 [...] who imagined that the future revolved around the ‘eHarmony for Jobs‘.(The idea was tired a couple of years ago) I regaled him with stories of Intellimatch, itzBig, JobFox and 40 other matching services. They [...] [...] who imagined that the future revolved around the ‘eHarmony for Jobs‘.(The idea was tired a couple of years ago) I regaled him with stories of Intellimatch, itzBig, JobFox and 40 other matching services. They [...]

]]> By: Got a Spare Few Minutes? Then See These 3 Browse-Worthy New Sites : ERE.net http://www.johnsumser.com/2009/02/ehire/comment-page-1/#comment-20922 Got a Spare Few Minutes? Then See These 3 Browse-Worthy New Sites : ERE.net Mon, 09 Mar 2009 21:31:40 +0000 http://www.johnsumser.com/?p=400#comment-20922 [...] Versions free to jobseekers haven’t made much progress, let alone matched one million. John Sumser doesn’t think much of eHire. We’re keeping an open mind. tags: jobboards, screening, [...] [...] Versions free to jobseekers haven’t made much progress, let alone matched one million. John Sumser doesn’t think much of eHire. We’re keeping an open mind. tags: jobboards, screening, [...]

]]> By: Joe Sabrin http://www.johnsumser.com/2009/02/ehire/comment-page-1/#comment-17358 Joe Sabrin Sun, 01 Mar 2009 23:53:58 +0000 http://www.johnsumser.com/?p=400#comment-17358 John, thanks for your negative comments, 40 years of recruiting and always giving the candidate a fair shake is our legacy. Wait till the platform is out of BETA in May, you will see, Joe Sabrin eHire Founder John, thanks for your negative comments, 40 years of recruiting and always giving the candidate a fair shake is our legacy.

Wait till the platform is out of BETA in May, you will see,

Joe Sabrin
eHire
Founder

]]> By: johnrsumser http://www.johnsumser.com/2009/02/ehire/comment-page-1/#comment-9442 johnrsumser Wed, 11 Feb 2009 16:39:53 +0000 http://www.johnsumser.com/?p=400#comment-9442 It's really cool when someone disagrees with you and they're right. Thanks for keeping me on track, Colin. It’s really cool when someone disagrees with you and they’re right. Thanks for keeping me on track, Colin.

]]> By: Colin Kingsbury http://www.johnsumser.com/2009/02/ehire/comment-page-1/#comment-9439 Colin Kingsbury Wed, 11 Feb 2009 16:33:51 +0000 http://www.johnsumser.com/?p=400#comment-9439 6. It is perfectly legal to say you will only date a [race] [gender] [religion] under the age of [x] with a low body mass index. OK, I'm being slightly puckish here, but I do think the compliance issue has a way of knocking the wind out of a lot of good ideas. All you need is one person on the buying committee to raise the question and you leave the realm of effectiveness and enter that of legal hair-splitting. While it may not be on the tip of everyone's tongue, I feel like it has a stunting effect on the market. The type of development that you need to do in order to achieve and maintain compliance is in many ways the opposite of the type of work you do in order to make something innovative like this work. The latter often involves all manner of shortcuts, hacks, half-solutions, and other groping in the dark, while the former is all about making sure every I is dotted and every T crossed. One is a game for a nimble small upstart and the other is made for a stable, lumbering incumbent. The irony is that a truly effective algorithmic matching approach might be the most non-discriminatory system possible. But compliance is often less about results than it is about process. Also, it is amusing to note that all of your 5 items are true of online dating as well. 6. It is perfectly legal to say you will only date a [race] [gender] [religion] under the age of [x] with a low body mass index.

OK, I’m being slightly puckish here, but I do think the compliance issue has a way of knocking the wind out of a lot of good ideas. All you need is one person on the buying committee to raise the question and you leave the realm of effectiveness and enter that of legal hair-splitting. While it may not be on the tip of everyone’s tongue, I feel like it has a stunting effect on the market.

The type of development that you need to do in order to achieve and maintain compliance is in many ways the opposite of the type of work you do in order to make something innovative like this work. The latter often involves all manner of shortcuts, hacks, half-solutions, and other groping in the dark, while the former is all about making sure every I is dotted and every T crossed. One is a game for a nimble small upstart and the other is made for a stable, lumbering incumbent.

The irony is that a truly effective algorithmic matching approach might be the most non-discriminatory system possible. But compliance is often less about results than it is about process.

Also, it is amusing to note that all of your 5 items are true of online dating as well.

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