Is the career website dead?

Jason Averbook gushes about the innovation & its impact on HR Tech..Gautam Ghosh talks about its impact on India & how candidates can benefit from it. 
Yes, we are talking about the new innovation from Linkedin whereby prospective candidates can apply directly to companies & send them their public profile for open positions on their company pages.


Well, this post is not about Linkedin's innovation, but more specifically how this innovation will radically change traditional career websites. 
In a traditional setting

1. Candidates logon to career websites, register, fill up their profile information, search & apply for specific positions. 
2. Companies would check the applicant database, screen, interview & onboard candidates.

Then Linkedin came along & changed the traditional way of sourcing candidates. 
Companies realized that here was a much more powerful & better candidate database than what they were having with them. The rest is history...
Now there is a danger of the career website itself being shelved. 
Imagine that there is an API which can expose open positions from the HRIS on the company page in Linkedin, the the candidate applies for that position. 
After the candidate is screened, interviewed & hired, there is another API which can pull the profile information of the hired candidate into the applicant pages & then onto the HRIS as an employee. 
Sounds like fun...Who needs a career website..?? 
Thoughts..

HR Apps & consumer orientation

Steve Boese in his latest blog talks about a consumer oriented approach to HR Technology, where we can have the latest apps for HR downloaded, configured & ready to use.
The same thought occurred to me when we I was getting a demo of SuccessFactors (SFSF) & their entire suite of applications. I was really impressed with the deep functionality, UI, configurability & their 2-3 month implementation time frames, not to mention that a customer is always on the latest release.
Traditional ERP shops like PS, SAP etc take a lot of time & cost to upgrade, their UI sucks big time & functionality is, well, nothing to speak of. Try configuring their workflows & then you really start hating them big time.
Of course, we are still far off from Steve's vision of preloaded HR apps, but we are getting there..