You know those short summaries at the top of LinkedIn, where the person describes themselves and what they do? Like this:
or this:
or just a simple:
Well, a new tool will help companies and employees put those summaries together. It’s just one of many new technologies in the talent acquisition field.
Brand Amper is a creation of Jason Seiden, whose previous company was called Ajax Workforce Marketing. This new company, and new tool, he says, “takes employees through the process of reconciling their profiles.”
What he means by that is by having employees put together a summary of themselves and perhaps their company or their role in it on LinkedIn, and in shortened form on Twitter, it gives employees a bit of a blueprint for who they are and how they’ll be posting and tweeting and updating and sharing. “This is the key to the kingdom,” Seiden says. It’s not just a summary for LinkedIn, but a proverbial “elevator pitch” summarizing their work/life.
This Brand Amper tool is one of many that’ll be unveiled at an event this month in Las Vegas called the HR Technology Conference & Expo. Some of the tools have been written up on ERE, but some of the new hiring tools you may not have heard of include:
Meanwhile, I’m hearing that at least one and maybe two major applicant tracking systems are working on creating a tool like Great Hires.
This post originally appeared on ERE.net.
