Wristy business: Watch out for the next in mobile recruiting
5 September 2013
The age of the smart watch looks certain to have implications for the world of recruitment – in time – as yesterday saw the highly-anticipated first move into the market from Samsung, with its Android-powered Gear device.
Thu, 5 Sep 2013The age of the smart watch looks certain to have implications for the world of recruitment – in time – as yesterday saw the highly-anticipated first move into the market from Samsung, with its Android-powered Gear device.
Mobile recruitment technology experts tell recruiter.co.uk that while it’s not quite time to drop everything and invest in a smart watch recruitment strategy, the new technology is highly relevant.
Kris Bradshaw, the commercial director at mobile recruitment app makers AllTheTopBananas, says there is potential among other things for people to receive job alerts direct to their watch, and comments that the company “will be definitely doing something with it”.
And digital strategist Matt Alder says: “I think it’s an absolutely key trend for the future wearable technology.
“To dismiss it as a fad would be wrong, because these companies are committing millions of dollars to it,” he adds, although he says that it will be “quite a long time before we know what it looks like and what consumer attitudes are”.
But Alder is “keeping a very, very close eye on” developments, and tells recruiter.co.uk he is keen to see recruitment applications in the fullness of time.
As Bradshaw agrees, this is “something very new… at the moment nobody knows what they’re going to do and how it’s going to work”.
Mobile recruitment technology experts tell recruiter.co.uk that while it’s not quite time to drop everything and invest in a smart watch recruitment strategy, the new technology is highly relevant.
Kris Bradshaw, the commercial director at mobile recruitment app makers AllTheTopBananas, says there is potential among other things for people to receive job alerts direct to their watch, and comments that the company “will be definitely doing something with it”.
And digital strategist Matt Alder says: “I think it’s an absolutely key trend for the future wearable technology.
“To dismiss it as a fad would be wrong, because these companies are committing millions of dollars to it,” he adds, although he says that it will be “quite a long time before we know what it looks like and what consumer attitudes are”.
But Alder is “keeping a very, very close eye on” developments, and tells recruiter.co.uk he is keen to see recruitment applications in the fullness of time.
As Bradshaw agrees, this is “something very new… at the moment nobody knows what they’re going to do and how it’s going to work”.
