So, we just started a new project at work, a big, America-wide “Sales Talent” Recruitment project for one of the largest Gaming & Entertainment Groups in the world. As a number of contractors join our team from different parts of the continent, to facilitate the “ramp up” for this project, the immersion of web 2.0 into our industry has become painfully obvious.

I’M LOGGING IN

Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, are now our de facto “communities” and recruitment pools. Monster and CareerBuilder are yesterday’s news, and not a single one of my peers even suggested we post or mine for candidates there. We are using HodesIQ to manage our posts on the 50 or so job boards that we use, and track all applicants, MS Sharepoint to compile all common documentation (i.e. job descriptions, interview questionnaires, etc.), Zoho.com to manage all project related interaction within the project team, and Outlook to communicate with co-workers outside of the team. Due to the widespread use and regional instant messaging biases, I use MSN Live Messenger to instant message one half of my team, and Yahoo Messenger to ping the other half of the team. To simplify our weekly meetings, my Project Manager suggested that we should all get webcams and host web conferences in Windows NetMeeting….

I’M LOGGING OUT

I thought web 2.0 is supposed to make our lives easier…I take 15 minutes of every morning just to launch every project related tool…And easily spend 20% of my time simply staying on top of all the resources…What happened?

Why couldn’t there be one clear winner in all of this? Sure competition breeds innovation…but, this is insane!