Comments on: google search goes local with job search

By: Glenn Mandelkern

Glenn Mandelkern — Tue, 13 Feb 2007 05:34:51 +0000

It’ll be even more interesting when the links produced also include the actual name of the hiring manager. Companies everywhere proclaim that what makes their place great is their people. So why not make it even easier to introduce one set of people (current staff) to a future set of people (future staff)?

It’s been said that the Internet has made finding information about others much easier while at the same time isolating us more than ever behind screens. I’d like to see some companies take the professional attitude of displaying hiring manager’s names and welcoming fellow professionals via the Net to break down this isolation. And hopefully, we’ll then see the demise of the ubiquitous “No Phone Calls Please” — heaven help us if an automatic script adds that barrier line in bold to all results from such searches.

By: David McQueen

David McQueen — Mon, 12 Feb 2007 20:23:45 +0000

I remember doing some due diligence on student jobhunters site where they were thinking of using a similar kind of technology for local jobs. Especially seasonal jobs linked to the students postcode. So I think it could work…somehow…somewhere.

By: kelvin newman

kelvin newman — Mon, 05 Feb 2007 17:31:24 +0000

Yeah I wouldn’t have though job searches tend to lend themselves to local searches particularly well.

By: Kancer

Kancer — Mon, 05 Feb 2007 14:38:11 +0000

All this does is give you google results of where the head hunter offices are.

This is Robert Halfs(Halves?) office in Indianapolis

Indianapolis
135 N Pennsylvania
Suite 1700
Indianapolis, IN 46204 -4405

By: Lloyd Fassett

Lloyd Fassett — Sun, 04 Feb 2007 22:50:09 +0000

It’s interesting your screen shot has a job from Robert Half, which could likely be for a client. In a world where it’s been easy for applicants to spam their resume’s around, it’s easier for highering companies to spread more jobs that are meant to just drive applicants. A big part of the Attention Economy today is that it’s still easy to get people’s attention. If too many hirering entitites wast too much applicant time, the game will change. Google is as good as the data put into it, when that data is suspect, Google’s position is lessened.