Talent search 2.0 : Zoho Recruit + LinkedIn API

The opportunity to engage world's best talents (regardless of their geographic location) in business - is the primary mission of SaaS and Cloud Computing technologies. That's why the release of Zoho Recruit and LinkedIn open platform is quite important. Zoho Recruit - is a new online service for recruitment agencies and HR-departments that automates their recruiting processes. It helps to track job openings, resumes (candidates), contacts, search for candidates, puplish jobs openings on the site, send invitations, schedule interviews and log the communication with candidates. But perhaps the main Zoho Recruit feature is the parser that can extract resumes from email, folders on your computer, job search portals, social networks, search results in Google, and than parse the basic data and put it into the database. By the way, Zoho developers decided not to create  this functionality from scratch, but to integrate the world-best solution - Resume Grabber.

An amazing coincidence is that, perhaps, the most valuable resume source in the world - LinkedIn - was closed for the automated search, until the day when Zoho Recruit appeared. Today, LinkedIn has finally opened a set of API-interfaces that allow third-party applications to pull data from this social network. LinkedIn has previously provided such a possibility to exclusive partners such as Salesforce and IBM, but Zoho wasn't in this list. But now, we are quite confident that in the nearest future, Zoho Recruite will be able to search talents in LinkedIn by given search criteria and add them to its database. In addition, LinkedIn now allows users to send/receive messages and take different actions in LinkedIn by means of third-party applications. So, having a profile in LinkedIn, HR-manager, will also be able to make connections with candidates, invite them to interview, send notifications of new job openings. And Zoho Recruite can help automate this process.