Google Hire is the next Google tool to be shut down. As it turns out, recruitment is more complex than many software vendors realise.
Google says it will shut down Google Hire, its G Suite tool built for recruiters at small and midsized companies, on 1st September 2020, despite launching only two years ago. Google did not give a specific reason as to why it’s shutting down the tool beyond saying that it’s “focusing our resources on other products in the Google Cloud portfolio.”
Andrea Davey, CEO of Scout Talent recruitment software and services company, states without value-added services like recruitment marketing, employer branding and support services, most companies struggle to get value out of software-only vendors.
The company’s Product Management team recently released 5 questions for internal recruitment to ask when exploring software providers to avoid getting stung.
- What is your product roadmap and where is this product going to be in the next 6-12 months?
- Is this product going to help me now? If not completely, will it in the short term?
- What is the vision and what problems will the software solve? (Look for roadmap items that link directly to solving those problems.)
- What are my options for feedback?
- What does your release schedule look like? (Some companies will have longer release cycles than others. So if you don’t see a feature, but it’s “coming soon”, it’s good to find out rough timelines).
Hire is the latest of several Google products that have shut down recently, joining social network Google+, chat app Allo, and email app Inbox in the Google graveyard. It’s good that Google is trying to hone its product offerings, but it’s getting hard to trust that new Google services will stick around for more than a couple of years.
In 2017, when Google launched Hire, it also launched Google for Jobs, which filters third-party job listings based on search criteria you set, signaling big ambitions to make tools that would help users find jobs. Two years later, those ambitions may be stalled as Google for Jobs faces antitrust complaints in the EU and Hire is shutting down.
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Google Hire is the next Google tool to be shut down
The Verge