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Monthly Archives: April 2008

Of Holy Grails, Resumes, Job Postings, and Social Media

Wednesday, April 23, 2008

A “holy grail” for some with respect to online recruiting would be data standards that would enable job postings to essentially serve as a query against any segment of the world-wide set of resumes or CVs on the Web. The vision is that this might evolve into a real electronic market where talent supply and [...]

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From BODs to REST

Wednesday, April 16, 2008

There is now a great volume of material available on the Web comparing Web services built using WS-* stack technologies to those built using RESTful design principles. Just weeks ago, Burton Analyst Kurt Cagle offered us what practically was a short-course on RESTful web services design and its origins.
As I’ve mentioned in past posts, [...]

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Learn More About BODs: OAG Meeting April 29-30

Wednesday, April 9, 2008

To understand HR-XML 3.0, a good grasp of the Open Applications Group’s Business Object Document (BOD) framework is helpful. At last month’s Atlanta meeting, we had a session that gave us an in-depth look at how BODs work. This slide desk is a great resource. You can also find video of this session linked [...]

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The Problem with People (Modeling Them)

Tuesday, April 1, 2008

One of HR-XML’s big challenges is people — or more specifically how to model them. HR-XML needs to represent human resources — and a variety of their “designees” — in a variety of contexts and roles: employee, candidate, contractor, subscriber, account holder, assessment subject, screening subject, appraisal subject, supervisor, dependent, beneficiary, etc.
People are amazingly complex [...]

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