Comments on: Itzbig to Shut Down http://www.fordyceletter.com/2008/09/08/itzbig-to-shut-down/ Straight Talk for the Recruiting Profession Sat, 11 Feb 2012 10:59:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Bobby http://www.fordyceletter.com/2008/09/08/itzbig-to-shut-down/comment-page-1/#comment-2013 Bobby Fri, 26 Sep 2008 21:41:01 +0000 http://www.fordyceletter.com/?p=577#comment-2013 A) I never could the site to actually work. It had serious functionality problems and it would not return pages. B) Written resumes will ALWAYS be required for white collar jobs. ALWAYS. Forever. Eventually, it will be a standardized hybrid of a resume and an application form and will be able to be 100% portable among systems, and may include fact checking/verification baked in and digitally verifiable. Anybody who thinks WRITTEN resumes will vanish from the recruitment/hiring process is ill-informed or delusional. C) They tried to buy a product from us. We never made the sale because every time we sent them a license, they added 3 more pages of free stuff that they demanded. After 6 iterations, we threw up our hands and just walked away. Lucky us. A) I never could the site to actually work. It had serious functionality problems and it would not return pages.

B) Written resumes will ALWAYS be required for white collar jobs. ALWAYS. Forever. Eventually, it will be a standardized hybrid of a resume and an application form and will be able to be 100% portable among systems, and may include fact checking/verification baked in and digitally verifiable. Anybody who thinks WRITTEN resumes will vanish from the recruitment/hiring process is ill-informed or delusional.

C) They tried to buy a product from us. We never made the sale because every time we sent them a license, they added 3 more pages of free stuff that they demanded. After 6 iterations, we threw up our hands and just walked away. Lucky us.

]]> By: Dave Staats http://www.fordyceletter.com/2008/09/08/itzbig-to-shut-down/comment-page-1/#comment-1661 Dave Staats Wed, 10 Sep 2008 11:45:29 +0000 http://www.fordyceletter.com/?p=577#comment-1661 Their most famous day was probably this article. Never heard about it... Their most famous day was probably this article. Never heard about it…

]]> By: Joe http://www.fordyceletter.com/2008/09/08/itzbig-to-shut-down/comment-page-1/#comment-1660 Joe Tue, 09 Sep 2008 21:11:09 +0000 http://www.fordyceletter.com/?p=577#comment-1660 It was precisely because the CEO fought until the bitter end to ignore the value of the resume that the company failed. And it was never meant to be anything but a technology tool to bring people together faster, not to eliminate the need of direct contact. It was precisely because the CEO fought until the bitter end to ignore the value of the resume that the company failed.

And it was never meant to be anything but a technology tool to bring people together faster, not to eliminate the need of direct contact.

]]> By: Neil McNulty http://www.fordyceletter.com/2008/09/08/itzbig-to-shut-down/comment-page-1/#comment-1659 Neil McNulty Tue, 09 Sep 2008 15:35:26 +0000 http://www.fordyceletter.com/?p=577#comment-1659 Don't know the particulars or if this applies, but what I DO know is anything in our business which attempts to substitute technology for direct contact selling (the telephone) is doomed to fail. Many organizations are trying to invent the "magic bullet" business model which eliminates once and for all the least appealing, most difficult, yet most critical part of the search, placement, and staffing businesses: direct selling. When they do succeed, it will be when everyone marries online and doesn't meet their spouse until the wedding night. Don’t know the particulars or if this applies, but what I DO know is anything in our business which attempts to substitute technology for direct contact selling (the telephone) is doomed to fail.

Many organizations are trying to invent the “magic bullet” business model which eliminates once and for all the least appealing, most difficult, yet most critical part of the search, placement, and staffing businesses: direct selling. When they do succeed, it will be when everyone marries online and doesn’t meet their spouse until the wedding night.

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