Is mobile going to become the recruitment platform of choice?

No I am not agree with you. b'coz basically all these equipments works on digital technology. The instrument which could define 0 and 1 could do definitely. whethers its hight end graphic rich or a basic sms sending capable cell phones, then the basic need is to exchange information. Thats all. Which needs to be coded & programed & handled properly.

Mobile is playing a great role in recruitment now a days what i am thinking.Technology encroaches so fast through mobiles so that it is becoming so easy to handle all the things with in a moment with less time.Multimedia cell helps a lot to both students and officers for better co-ordination.Process are becoming so easy especially through SMS.

                     The processes through mobiles also reduces the time factor which has great importance in these busy days.So i think it is not only going to become the platform but also it has created bench mark in this regards.People are not getting agree with this but certainly it is shortest way of recruitment what i am feeling.I want to know what others will give their view regarding this topic.

Regards,

Sumeet Biswal.

I believe that mobiles are going to play a important role in the recruitment.. 

I also agree mobile is going to be the choice for recruiting. What  Vaibhav said is true, that is a need of the hour.  

Yes, the small 'machine' in our hand may be well utilized even for recruitment/s. This machine has seen many changes and is being developped further to perform lots more jobs.

When Banking may be done via this machine, why not recruitments ? In a situation when recruiters are eager to reach their target candidate/s fast, they may find " mobile " the best alternative. Days may come we may get adopted to this.

Since you debate topic is worded accordingly, Yes. Mobile "is going to" become the recruitment platform of choice.

The crucial criteria is the recruiter is actually speaking to the person he wants to recruit. If that integrity can be maintained by a phone/laptop application where the person giving the interview can be seen, there is no stopping "mobile recruitment"!

Since we are rapidly moving to globalization and treating the globe as one plateform, I reckon mobile recruitment is a key word.

today if we are in Singapore and looking out for talent trough-out the world, we have to have a direct connection through their own handphone. after reviewing resume the next step in recruitment process is telephonic interview.

I truly believe that mobile is and will be the key tool in the process of recruitment and even will be more strong sphare in head-hunting industry.

Thanks

Time for mobile is soon to come.  I would like to add a few points to support this idea.

1) Manyy people are already enjoying mobiile products & services, platform, technologies & contents in Japan.  One of the good & well known example is called i-mode.

2) Realizing ubiquitous networking society is a vision that all (at least most) IT/tech companies have and they are making upmost efforts tor it.  And new products, services, technollogies they announce and launch are evidence for progress.

3) Ubiquitous access to information on the Internet/web for timely decision making & actions is one of the requirement for competitive advantage for recruiting, similarly to all other business activities.  

It is fast, efficient and reaches across nations in less than 30 seconds.  It has been here for several years and will continue to grow as we become more culturally educated through the use of the internet. 

yes ofcourse ,mobile going to become the recruitment platform of choice,most of the software developer are interested in it and it is really very efficient way to progress because technology is in its growing stage always and it is going to become most hot spot stream for software developers to develop new mobile software according to competitive environment of mobie invention.

Mobile usage become part of everyday life, without checking mobile day incomplete. A very good mobile application is worth exploring for changing needs of career board and advantages to employees to explore while on the move.

Difference between mobile and desk top, as far as services are concerned, both are alike with each other. Difference is only mobility, portability and being handy, and all these are possible only withmobile. Mobile has full capacity to do away with desk top for recruitment process and delay is only affordability of internet and services on affordable mobile sets, so that the same becomes common like todays mobile without internet. In fact,when it becomes possible that u have not to buy both and mobile is enough.

I too agree that, by the 3G technology the recruiters can make a face 2 face conversation with the people.

As technology is going places, It also play a strong role in recuriment procedure.It acts as one medium to stay connected between job provider and job seeker.

yes i feel that mobile is a platform for recruitment because we can have interaction with the candidate who is opting for the job by using mobile technology we can get to know the way how is his/her communication skills and also we can take this oppurtunity as a selection criteria.

While not yet due to inadequate penetration levels, I feel in the not too distant future mobile phones will become the medium for recruitment.

The inhibiting factors at present are usage levels of the required phone and cost of mobile internet - but as always in the past, costs will tumble with time...

Yes I am agree with you. Mobile can replace all these overheads.

It may take time. But this will happen for sure!! It will take time because it will require standadization in mobile services and platform. (here we dont have monopoly like Microsoft Word). So, what kind of file you can exchange, what kind of display you/client needs, etc. will determine its future.

For simplicity, I can't imagine if i would prefere to create my CV on mobile. (I will prefere to create on dektop and then would like to exchange through mobile internet). Can I scroll through CV as we do with papar cv or dexktop? Lot of things to be resolved before it becomes that prevalent.

But except this aspect, all other things can be better done through mobile. Information (time/availability/interest) all are checked though mobile conversation only. Many services like status update, new opportunities, matching opportunities, support on call etc can be better provided over mobile internet because it is the only electronics device still considered as personal in office. It is not monitored by office internet/server. Many people may not do anything over office network/internet connection as it is monitored and restricted and this way they miss option to be connected to recruiter for any help. 

There definetely remains a need for this. But lets see what kind of technical maturity it will take for this to become prevalent.

definitely it will become. 

now today i have heard that a company has deviced mobile tat u can read ur mail as an sms and alsom reply to tha mail thourgh a sms with nomial charges. these services can be also be used on mobiles which do not have gprs. so mobiles would also provide morre people oppurytunities to people.

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yes i with agree  mobile phone  is become recruitment platform 

Yes, in coming years , it may be the option of carrying out the recruitment in mobile.But as per now it wont be the option as all the networks donot support the application.Again every thing has its advantageous and disadvantageous, advantageous could be on the spot reply, immediate recruitment and the disdvantage include, unable to enter the correct info. as the screen size will be less and its difficult in it to enter the data, more confusion among the fields as they will be close to each other with small screen.

In due course. YES!!!!!!!!!!!!

Yes now a days the usage of Internet through mobile phones are increasing rapidly. If the Mobile phones have the capability to hold the complex Network systems along with its normal functionalities then no doubt, this is the best option for every individual. This takes a few years the use Chip technology in Mobile.

Mobiles are now capable of having various applets built for various mobile OS.

This allows to have an end to end process flow built for operations via mobile technology

ITZ and Oxy Cash Cards have already been seen to be moving in this direction

Yes , But not as a platform but as a preferred tool. But that can understood as off today due to maturity of the mobile tech. I think some service venders already like Idea already started this service with some monthly subscriptions. But they are providing complete platform but communication can started with this tool and then further actions …

The new tech . like SOA , Portal , Restful services are growing support due to above factor in mobile tech using cloud and virtualization which reduces the operating cost ,increase reusability of old applications and faster change in business process.

The recruitement Revolution requires a touch of mobile technology.

The market is fat growing and it requires for a company or an entity to get the resources as fast as possible with better expectation for it..

hence , mobile as a medium for recruitment -platform enables the recruites to apply from a remote location without having to worry about the time spent unused in getting to a location.

But certain phases of the recruitement process can be carried out with the mobile technique and the needed next phases can be carried out later with front to front process.

I believe mobile computing, with the expansion of more terminals of different types (smartphones, netbooks, etc.) ootherwise called pervasive computing, is changing and will change even more the way the user accesses and utilises data and applications.

This will impact on every aspect of day-to-day life, and more importantly, those activities which require human-to-human interaction, such as recruiting.

As world moving fast people don't have much time to see their email reguraly.so instead of contacting through email recruiter contact on phone ,so that they can reach to the candidate directly.though the internet is fast & easy way ,mobile is going to become a recruitment plateform chioce. 

yes i agree with this. Mobile is a fastest media for communication. So that user can access from anywhere.

Use technology as it best suits you! The premise of mobile becoming the chosen one might not be accurate. It could most certainly cater to, at the various recruitment stages but at the cost of sounding traditional, it will take some time to replace the face to face assessment. 

Mobile is the platform of next gen.

With the advancement in technology resulting in rich content deliveries (Media/Text), reducing gap between the CE-PC devices (refer http://www.eetimes.com/issue/cs/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=208808506), I believe the mobile platform will become a mainstream platform

for most of the desktop applications.

E.g. M-Commerce, Mobile Banking is very good example of increasing usage of mobile platforms.

While it may not replace or provide alternative to desktop but I believe it would provide very strong support to the exiting platforms.

New development towards the possibility of having open platform for mobile devices will further encourage development/adoption of popular applications to the mobile platform.

Updates on go, alerts, video conf, voip applications etc with assumption of 3G or better data service options with affordable cost, I support for argument.

Yes it should come ,mobile device must has to come as a powerful media to get job opportunities .We must try to bring to the mobile but it should not be add.

Yes , I find it totally realistic , even with today's standards like 3G etc. we can access the web at blistering speed.So it is safe to assume mobile based devices are gonna get better.They could be in the future if not now be the choice for recruitment.

I completely agree! Mobile is easily accessible and always provides a ready to use platform. I have personally seen a lot of turnaround for Mobile recruitment drives.  So, it surely indicates the need of the hour.

With the cost of mobile phones on the decrease everyday and the cost of connections also decreasing drastically, most people are now capable of buying high end phones.( Especially the students).

so they would find it more convenient to browse the net thru their phones rather than sit in home in front of the comp.

We see now a days most of the interviws are conducted on mobile.Secondly, most of the consultancies and recruiting agencies are using mobile for communication and information distribution.

Thirdly it gives a permanent contact number on which the company people or recruiting agencies are interact with you..

Each and every client is asking for information on the mobile phone be it a web based application or just plain sms alerts; the trend has definetly shifted and any application you develope needs to be available on the mobile phone.

I agree with that, mobile optimized to take full advantage of this growing medium.