It was almost a year ago when I was digging through various search strings running in an uncountable number of tabs within my browser that it struck me how powerful the browser could really be for recruiters willing to take advantage of it. Of course at that point I was only thinking about bookmarks and Firefox plugins, so of course the little monster that resides inside my head just pointed to toolbars and add-ons and huffed... and said he'd be back.

Since then I've been trying to figure out what the little guy meant. In doing so I've tried to get my hands on every browser add-on I could find related to my work whenever I had a spare moment to play. The result has been my learning a few neat tricks, fun hacks, and some terrific nuggets of wisdom along the way - but none of it was really what he was getting at. Truth be told, he gets more noisy and restless over time until I finally break the code.

So I think I've managed to decipher what his grunting and scratching and almost Tasmanian sounds were pushing me towards, and I think I'm ready to share what the fuss was all about. His idea was that of a completely mobile and cloud based box set of recruiting tools and practices - easily transferred/passed/shared between collaborative teams.

Damn, he's good.

This will take more than a single post to get through. So we'll start where a recent article of mine (Your Internet Recruiting Dashboard) left off... iGoogle and Custom Search Engines.


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