http://www.cheezhead.com/2009/06/30/ved-careerbuilder-and-bing-partnership/ Insight and opinion from the world of employment. Fri, 13 Nov 2009 04:01:22 -0700 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 hourly 1 http://www.cheezhead.com/2009/06/30/ved-careerbuilder-and-bing-partnership/comment-page-1/#comment-118568 skeptic Wed, 01 Jul 2009 16:57:17 +0000 http://www.cheezhead.com/?p=7082#comment-118568 I checked out this new product through my Careerbuilder resume database account. I was displeased and frankly, a bit alarmed. To test it out, I looked up some people who I knew had resumes on the site to see what kind of information was returned. While I will admit there was some accurate results, the vast majority (really probably about 90%) of the results were in no way related to the candidate. It seemed that a very basic web search was performed and returned any results matching a single field. Not multiple fields that would verify results. The problem with this: recruiters using this tool have no way of knowing which results are accurate and which are not. Of course, this is a risk with the recruiter searching on their own, but by presenting this as a new product, is Careerbuilder not responsible for presenting the false and potentially damaging results? I noticed no disclaimer warning the recruiter that the results are not guaranteed accurate. I checked out this new product through my Careerbuilder resume database account. I was displeased and frankly, a bit alarmed. To test it out, I looked up some people who I knew had resumes on the site to see what kind of information was returned. While I will admit there was some accurate results, the vast majority (really probably about 90%) of the results were in no way related to the candidate. It seemed that a very basic web search was performed and returned any results matching a single field. Not multiple fields that would verify results. The problem with this: recruiters using this tool have no way of knowing which results are accurate and which are not. Of course, this is a risk with the recruiter searching on their own, but by presenting this as a new product, is Careerbuilder not responsible for presenting the false and potentially damaging results? I noticed no disclaimer warning the recruiter that the results are not guaranteed accurate.

]]> http://www.cheezhead.com/2009/06/30/ved-careerbuilder-and-bing-partnership/comment-page-1/#comment-118564 Thyaga Wed, 01 Jul 2009 13:16:40 +0000 http://www.cheezhead.com/?p=7082#comment-118564 CareerBuilder uses Bing APIs for this integration. I still having trouble understanding what value does this add to CareerBuilder user. The recruiter can go to Bing directly and perform the search utilizing advanced features available on the bing portal. CareerBuilder uses Bing APIs for this integration. I still having trouble understanding what value does this add to CareerBuilder user. The recruiter can go to Bing directly and perform the search utilizing advanced features available on the bing portal.

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