2008 and the explosion of Recruiting on the internet.  The past year or so has seen the proliferation of social networking sites like Facebook, Linkedin and Ning--where you can build your own network. The recruiting industry has especially benefited from these sites and we all know there is a huge number of Job Boards out there. There's even a site for people who work at job boards. Anyone can put a job board up and be searched by linking to Simply Hired or Indeed.  For me personally Linkedin is a GodSend, by nature we recruiters are social beings, the fact we can multiply our contacts and social status by sitting at our desks only increases our ability to find passive and great candidates. Of course along the way we make great friends as I have. 

 There has also been an increase in Video Interviewing or Video Resume sites. An employer can list several questions and a potential candidate can answer them online, saving the video and forwarding it to the employer. I call these sites the 8 Track of internet Recruiting.  They soon will be obsolete, and taken over by a new technology an idea for recruiting on the internet just how the 8 Track of the 70's was replaced by the casette, and then replaced by CD and so on and so on.  The CD of Internet Recruiting is Real-Time Job Interviewing or video conferencing for job interviews.  Employers are able to Interview immediately over the internet making fast hiring decisions and decreasing costs. 

 These are exciting times, and the internet is exploding with new ways to find and recruit great talent.  Let's use the internet to also Interview Candidates.