iStockCV is ALIVE !

We are proud and happy to announce the launch of the public beta. We’ve been working as hell :) to make it happen.

WARNING

This is a public beta - meaning it works and we’re still working on it. The application is already fully functional and new features are scheduled for the next months, until the final release which will be deployed in September 2008. Till this date, we will be glad to receive lots of feedbacks from you guys!

• What you like / don’t like.
• What you would like to have.

Express yourself ;-)

Here are the main features you are going to implement in the next months.

For the candidate side:

• your profile (a.k.a CV) in multiple languages;
• a video CV;
• export/print your CV;
• use templates;
• receive your statistics/notifications on Facebook;
• a search engine to look for jobs (today we allow only to look for companies);
• create groups.

For the company side:

• allowing companies to publish videos/pictures;
• multiple users under the same company account, so employees can have an access too;
• a wall for companies;
• a corporate blog (big piece!);
• exporting/printing CV.

General

• internal messaging system;
• interface in different languages.

So what do you think?

What would be a priority according to you?

Should employers use social network profiles in the hiring process?

This is a thought-provoking topic that Josh Catone rose in his post Should employers use social network profiles in the hiring process? (Read Write Web, March 21, 2008). It is worth to read (comments included). As far I’m concern, I do believe it is becoming an important trend that will no stop – then people should be aware of this and take it for granted. I personally deal with privacy issue by publishing or not information. Obviously, the challenge right now lays on educating people to taking care of what to publish on the web or not.

#2 : Candidate’s Jobs

If you expected to see the tab “profile” – well you will have to wait little bit cause we jumped to reach the tab “jobs” which is nonetheless very interesting.

By clicking on the layout below (perhaps you will have to zoom on it), you figure out how things are working with joboffers and invitations for events. Take a look at it