A lot is going on in the e-recruiting arena these days. While many believe that the market is saturated for big job boards, niche boards are popping up everyday. Simultaneously, social networking sites are progressively devouring job boards market.

We invite industry luminaries worldwide to share their thoughts about the future of e-recruiting. With your help, we would like to review the following 10 predictions about the future of e-recruiting made by Dr. Pascal Fenkam (Distributed Systems Group, Vienna University of Technology). The aim is to produce a roadmap that can guide e-recruiting researchers and practitioners around the world.

Which predictions do you share? Which seem more like recommendations now? (For example, are job boards going to make the step towards social networking? Will social network sites interconnect?)

The 10 predictions are listed below. If you'd like to voice your opinion on all of them - or even just one - please fill in the relevant boxes and submit the form at the bottom of the page.

Prediction 1. The gap between social networking and recruiting sites will disappear. New tools will have to do more than simply being address books and vacancy boards. Let's call the new generation of tools social career tools.

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Prediction 2. New business models will emerge in e-recruiting and challenge existing recruiting businesses.

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Prediction 3. Sorting out the ideal candidate will increasingly be difficult.

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Prediction 4. Personal connection between recruiters and candidates will become even more important.

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Prediction 5. Job finding and vacancy filling will become a social and group activity.

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Prediction 6. Companies will have to maintain pools of high potential candidates and treat them as carefully as employees.

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Prediction 7. Talent management tools will have to evolve into talent RELATIONSHIP management tools able to maintain the relationship to previous applicants and prevent repetitive selection tasks.

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Prediction 8. Social career tools will evolve in the same way as Job boards: proliferate, reach saturation, specialize, interconnect.

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Prediction 9. Passive vs. active candidates will no longer be an issue. As e-recruiting will become increasingly social, the concept of active vs. passive candidate will disappear as it never existed in social networks. Still, the market will be devised into reachable and unreachable candidates. The unreachable candidates will be those having no time/will/interest to maintain public profiles.

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Prediction 10. Employment professionals will need to be very flexible and able to accommodate new technologies as they arrive.

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