Part of this is my Apple fanboy-ness and part of it is my desire to remain ahead of the curve.
A lot of job search has moved mobile. So many apps are now out there for mobile job search that it has become a major source of job search traffic and also a major tool in the modern job search.
I just perused the list of iPad launching apps and to the best of my knowledge, there are no job search apps on there yet. What I’d like to do is have us all keep our eyes out for when the first one launches.
Will it be Careerbuilder, an early and heavy user of the iPhone app ecosystem? Will someone make a mashup app for craigslist?
Or will it be more interesting?
Just as the mobile web has given us a new way to job search, will the iPad bring us something we can’t imagine yet? Will the iPad become something (more interestingly for me, certainly because I own a resume writing business) that is a presentation device? Will it be something we bring along to interviews and job fairs? Will the iPad become the modern brief case? Will this be the way we show off our resumes or portfolios?
I don’t know the answers yet, but I want to make sure we’re all there when we find out.
So, I’ll be getting my iPad on Saturday. And I’ll post some stuff here about it.
But help me out as well. If you see some job search oriented iPad apps pop up, please, let me know. If someone starts using the iPad for job search in new and interesting ways, please let me know.
I’ll share it here, and we can all dissect and evaluate it. Is it the future? We’ll decide together.
