• Satish Ganesh put his views across about the same, “Technology has impacted the way in which recruiting is happening. However, there should be Human Touch involved. Gamification in recruiting will be more in coming days. Many companies would adapt to it soon”
• Yusuf Pathan had some comments, “What other changes do we expect in the coming days or years with respect to Technology?”
• Chinmay Chavan had a few thoughts, “More & more Automation in almost every aspects of recruitment. Search engines doing a lot more than just screening profiles.” He also mentioned, “Not all the work. But will make the job of scraping through the entire Internet a bit easier.”
• Harish had some views, “In Today’s world who updates his technology he will be the successful person who will get the project easily. The Update must be user friendly, and then only he can survive. But without human work search engines don’t collect data. What I want to say is that the search engines data is also collected by humans. So there is no point in search engines doing most of the work.‬ but that has some loss as well, it accepts all the fake resumes and fake requirements blindly‬. Technology is changing rapidly and currently the problem is not because of lack of data, but the main problem being  not knowing what to infer from the data that is pouring in from various streams.‬ The Problem being of plenty.”

• Amanpreet Sehgal had some inputs, “Technology has made a small world for us. We all are connected through various mediums.” Skype’s Video Chats has made recruitments across locations or countries quicker.” “Few years back, it was just job portals we were dependent on and only active candidates that are now on LinkedIn, Twitter, Facebook groups, WhatsApp Groups, quicker way of interacting.” In reply to Yusuf Pathan’s comment about, is technology killing the creativity of recruiters? His opinion was, “I have a different view here, and I feel technology has pushed creativity to a different level.”

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• Achyut Menon enquired, “Let me try & rephrase… How is technology likely to impact recruiters? Are third party recruiters likely to become redundant? If clients and candidates can directly find each other, will there be room for intermediaries?”
• Yusuf Pathan had some comments such as, “I do not see third party recruiters becoming redundant, the clients will have their own limitations in getting access to the entire pool of technologies available. So if you are a Corp recruiter or a 3rd party recruiter, it will depend on how corporates would like to strategise their recruitment function.” “Having said that, Indian recruitment is a number game and 3rd party companies is and always will be a part of a strategy for the corporates.”

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