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With information technology advancing at an ever increasing pace, there are inevitably going to be new products on the market to help recruitment specialists do their jobs more efficiently.

At a recent Recruitment Technology conference several new products were launched and a couple of them caught my eye.

One product I was impressed by essentially aggregates all public information about a candidate or client so it can be viewed easily in one place. The information is gathered from a variety of social media sites and other online channels (such as reviews on Amazon). The software also automatically removes any data that might contravene EEOC or OFCCP regulations.

Another product which interested me was one that allows companies to utilise the social media connections of its employees with an automated process of ‘viral job marketing’. The product has been on the market for a year now but it has recently been enhanced with graphical metrics, hundreds more channels for job-posting and a further degree of automation.

Only time will tell if these applications make the impact that their developers hope, however products such as these certainly indicate an intention by developers to tap into the vast and growing amount of data that is available on Social Media. Long gone are the days where you had to network extensively via phone to find out where the best candidates and potential clients were. New technologies will never replace traditional methods of networking (speaking over the phone etc) but they may automate the more mundane tasks and allow us, as recruiters, to work more efficiently and creatively for our clients.

By: Johnny E Smith

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I think games in the future will be even more realistic then the games we already have with our Xbox 360s and Play Station 3s. Microsoft and Sony will more than likely come out with something even more insane like a virtual game or something and that would be the game of the century. To have a virtual game that you put on but still used an Xbox or Play Station and you played shooting games like you play online today. I think that would be the best game to come out ever.

If you just thought about what we have now and just think about we will have in the future you should be amazed because with graphics and games getting so much more finer in quality and look it going to be a good future.

Just like I said about the virtual game thing you could have that same idea but have just sunglasses to put on and you see everything through the lenses. That would be a lightweight piece to put on yet a whole big bang of game, if you just had that and an Xbox you would be set for playing online. That would be a whole new online experience for most gamers. I wouldn’t think that anyone had ever seen anything like that before.

Also people are suggesting that they would like to be able to speak with characters from the game. The whole point of the game is to play not talk is what I think. I think if you want to talk you need to get online and play a game like Counterstrike or Day of Defeat or maybe get on Xbox live and do some Gears of War or Halo 3. That’s the type of games that you should want to talk on or to. If you ever go online you will see people talking online a lot and that might motivate you to get involved. It’s a lot better to want to talk to other people online then talk to a character in a game that is made to answer questions that you are going to ask unless it has a brain and can speak and think on its own. I don’t think something like that would come out for at least another hundred years.

If you are the one to talk then you should just go online or get an Xbox and an Xbox live account and get started playing shooting games online or play some type of role playing game. That’s if you want to talk in the game that you are playing. You can still not talk and play online or on any other game. I think playing games online like Madden and sports games are fun and you don’t have to talk with other people. Most people do like the idea of being able to talk with each other especially since you can talk with people from all over the world. I don’t see why someone would want to talk with a game character in a game.

By: Gregg Hall

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