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There are also blue-collar workers that don't use or can't afford smartphones at all. A nifty "broadcast yourself" feature in Findjobs allows children to quickly help their parents indicate what jobs they are looking for and what experience they have.

Ivan said: "I went to many places - shopping malls, the MRT, washrooms. Whenever I see cleaners in the washroom, I ask them 'Auntie, Uncle, you looking for job?' "

"Everywhere I go, even hawker centres, I will approach these aunties and uncles as I'm a recruiter with customers that have hundreds of cleaner positions available and I couldn't depend on online."

He added that a mobile app means the job postings are always there, and the job seeker can be exposed to more job vacancies.

https://www.businesstimes.com.sg/life-cu...pokemon-go
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Competition through new technology in the low-skilled employment market has emerged. If Grab can connect drivers with commuters, then a case can also be made for an online broker to connect employers and jobseekers. Of course, whether such apps can gain market share will depend on how successful it is in convincing both employers and jobseekers, to first come on board, and then perform an even better job, compared to the traditional agent, in satisfying their respective needs.

As you predicted earlier, more online brokers are jumping into the recruitment fray. It's a low barrier to entry bizness but I think the threat from bigger brokers in the likes of Uber may be more serious as they already have troves of data, they are established, their apps are familiar to people already, and thus likely to get up to speed faster. However, the online brokers will likely focus mainly on the "more straight fwd" jobs that require easy evaluation rather than the higher end(requiring complicated skills) jobs as the latter needs more complicated evaluations. Even then, there is a concurrent trend towards AI / automation which may reduce the no. of straight fwd / labour intensive / automatable jobs moving fwd. "disruption within disruption" ? I wld be curious to observe the impact of all these to Hrnet.

In the moblie app world, I think there cld be a convergence to a super/ mega app* (which companies like Singtel, Grab, Uber seem good candidates to come out with one.) which may take mkt share away from the recruitment industry's incumbents.

*https://www.thestar.com.my/business/business-news/2018/07/11/grab-wants-to-build-tencentlike-superapp/

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"RIDE-HAILING firm Uber Technologies Inc said it launched an app called Uber Works to connect temporary workers looking to work shifts with businesses trying to plug gaps in their rosters.

The app, made available only in Chicago for now, will show workers the available shifts in a certain area and help businesses that struggle to staff up during peak demand, and with missed shifts and high turnover, Uber said in a blog https: ubr.to/2n5ka15....."

Read mpre : https://www.businesstimes.com.sg/technol...businesses