The increasing competition in digital world is quite interesting as well as challenging. And this time, the competition is between Google and Microsift. To move a step ahead than Microsoft-owned LinkedIn, Google has launched a new recruiting app ‘Hire’ which is meant for small and medium-sized businesses.
According to Berit Johnson, who is Senior Product Manager at Google Cloud, Hire makes it easy for recruiters to identify talent, build strong candidate relationships and efficiently manage the end-to-end interview process.
He also informed that Hire and G-Suit will be working together so that the priorities of recruiting process can be achieved.
“Hire and G Suite are made to work well together so recruiting team members can focus on their top priorities instead of wasting time copy-pasting across tools,” Johnson said.
Further, to use Hire, it is mandatory for companies to be paid subscribers of Google’s G Suite line-up of business apps like Calendar and Gmail. G Suite customers will have to pay extra to use the Hire app.
However, it has not been disclosed as of now as to how much the Hire app will cost, but it’s based on how many workers a company employs.
The new app incorporates some of the technologies developed by the business software startup Bebop, founded by Google’s head cloud Chief Diane Greene.
Thereafter, Google bought Bebop in November 2015 for $380 million at the time when Greene was hired by Google to lead the company’s enterprise efforts.
At present, Google’s focus is not to target bug companies to use Hire. The received information states that Google does not aim big companies to use the Hire app at this time. For those companies, operating global offices is a better option where regulations regarding hiring workers may differ from region to region.
Yet, it doesn’t mean that Google will not bring something like Hire for big companies in future. But for now, small scale businesses are its potential customers.
It is not comprehensible what privacy controls are accessible to the users of new service, Hire, but in a report during April Google clarified, “Google does not share private information such as search or viewing history. Only the information that applicants input into Google Hire will be shared—for example, first name, last name, email address, resume, cover letter, etc.”