A new application and platform for the iPhone looks likely to accelerate ‘recruiting in the cloud’ concept in the UK by allowing candidates to apply for a job from their mobile device in one click.

Real-Time Jobs is a mobile jobs search engine developed by the company behind TwitterJobSearch.com. Sitting behind it is QuickPitch, an applicant tracking system (ATS) that allows a candidate to apply for a job they see on the search engine by a single tap and include a link to their LinkedIn, Twitter or other social media profile, a VisualCV (see Recruiter, 10 June) or their own web page.

Bill Fischer, co-founder of TwitterJobSearch.com, told Recruiter that the app will make it easier for both jobseekers and recruiters to make use of online CVs. “Other mobile apps allowed candidates to find jobs but they couldn’t do much about it until they got back to their PC to send the CV,” he said. “Also, for developments like VisualCV, there wasn’t really any mechanism to deliver these in this way so we’ve partly built the system around them.

“All of our jobs are stored on servers and can be accessed from anywhere, so basically the notion is that the jobs and the ATS both reside in the cloud.”

When a recruiter goes to TwitterJobSearch, they can see photos of the candidates who have applied and hover over each one to see links to their various profiles (see screen shot, left).

Gavin Beaton, group recruitment manager at specialist engineering recruitment company, the Orion Group, downloaded the app and told Recruiter he was impressed.

“Social media is becoming a bigger part of the way we recruit and allowing candidates to apply for jobs in the cloud takes things a step further,” he said. “We regularly search social media profiles to identify potential candidates - now we will have candidates sending them to us in direct response to our job adverts.

“However, recruitment in our industry is all about knowing our candidates and understanding the clients’ needs; I think it is very important we don’t lose that personal touch. Moving forward as a company we are embracing social media with a step-by-step and open approach.”

Declan Fitzgerald, global sourcing manager at Microsoft, agrees that the app could bring the recruiting in the cloud concept closer and told Recruiter that real-time search is bringing evolutionary change to the recruitment industry. “What the app does is provide creative, well-designed software that allows recruiters and jobseekers to meet on the cloud while on the move and while in synchronicity with other devices they may have at home or in the office,” he said.

A version of the app for Google’s Android mobile operating system is in development as well as for other platforms.
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