I've written about bad user experiences, now here's the good..
Path who needs another mobile diary timeline of your life? I know I know.. But, Path is so beautiful that it beckons me to open it every day! Unlike Facebook, where you can have virtually unlimited friends, you're limited to 100 of your closest friends. Mine? My favorite startup, development folks that I love and trust. Plus, a couple of my "early adopter" marketing friends.
Why do I love it? It's easy to navigate, use and let's face it.. it's beautiful!
Jobvite having seen and used most every ATS and Recruiting platform (or at least a demo of it), this is the best I've seen. And by best, I mean by at least 1000k times better.
I hate Taleo. It's not a secret. If you've looked through larger company job listings and applied anywhere in the past 10 years, chances are you have used Taleo. The scary thing? It hasn't really changed or improved in a decade.
Jobvite makes it easy for applicants to apply via their LinkedIn profiles, and upload your resume without parsing it and hacking it 12 ways from Sunday.
If you haven't heard, there is a hiring war going on in a lot of cities (especially within IT). Getting a software engineer excited about your company is one thing. Actually making them fill out a profile on your corporate Taleo site? You're basically telling the candidates that you don't respect their time and showing that your company is stuck in the "black hole of the recruiting process".
Who uses Jobvite? Software Engineers-basically any company that you would *want* to actually work for. For my other friends and non-software engineering types? If you want to work for an innovative company, they should have a Jobvite portal for you to upload your information into.
