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Messenger Control Helps People Find Jobs!

Jan 10, 2009 1:36 pm by Sunshine | 3 comments

How would you like it if your future boss (or a recruiter) would contact you on Messenger? It can happen if you are in Latin America and submitted your resume to www.Bumeran.com. Subscribers there can now associate their Bumeran account with their Windows Live ID. Next when recruiters are browsing the resumes they can click the presence icon next to the candidate they are interested in to start a conversation.

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All this is without the need of adding that candidate to their contact list or knowing his/her Live ID by the way!

Looks like more and more businesses are starting to see the added value the IM control can bring to their sites. The first we reported on that put it to good use is the Dutch Microsoft ALM (Application Lifecycle Management) Team. In August 2008 a billion requests a month with Windows Live Presence API was reached already!

Windows Live Messenger Developer Blog : Messenger Control Helps People Find Jobs!

P.S. To those looking for/missing Messenger Presence on here: we haven’t re-implemented it yet.

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http://www.liveside.net/members/CalumJR/default.aspx CalumJR
The icons in Messenger presence now need to be updated to the wave 3 style (the chicletts) ;)
Let’s hope they do!
http://www.liveside.net/members/CalumJR/default.aspx CalumJR
Also, by the way, the only thing I don’t like about this redesign is the grey around the selected menu item (e.g. now, it is around “Home”).
I think a lighter blue (than the menu bar) would be more effective and would work better :)
http://msftandthefuture.spaces.live.com/ Quikboy
I wish more sites would adopt the Messenger IM Control. There’s tons of sites these days where users can login, or drop a comment and it’d be nice if you could contact them directly for further discussion or help or whatever.
Too bad few people know about it, or use Messenger enough in the States.