Tony Lee of Adicio moderated a panel last month at Kennedy which talked about web recruiting trends for 2007 and beyond. Also on the panel were Paul Forster of Indeed, Jeff Benrey of Trovix, Jason Gorham from CareerMetaSearch and Drew Dix of Law Jobs.com.

Here are the trends they discussed.

#1 - Applicant Tracking Must Improve - identifying candidate source will become more important then ever.

#2 - Job boards Everywhere - more will be created centered around niches and blogs.

#3 - Smart Marketing Wins - search engines, job boards, and destination sites will continue to prove their ability to find elusive candidates through keyword buys on a targeted, per-click basis.

#4 - Cybersonic Job Alerts - more recruiters will communicate with candidates directly from their desktops and less through resume databases.

#5 Blogs & Video go mainstream - more employers will adopt cutting edge branding technologies to reach elusive, high quality candidates.

#6 - Crunch Time - a shortage of workers in several industries will be severe and how companies recruit will become a strategic differentiator.

#7 - Passive Gets Active - Finding qualified candidates will require more active sourcing techniques.

#8 - Networks are forming - Social, regional, national, cross-platform and more allow recruiters to target candidates in a range of cool ways.

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