ebay next job board?
January 29th, 2005
They’ve been pretty quiet about it, but eBay is slowly becoming a destination site for everything classified.
Last month, they bought Rent.com. Before that, they bought a 25 percent share of underground darling Craigslist, which serves up everything a newspaper does and targets local markets to boot.
So why not serve job listings on eBay? They have the technology (cross-post jobs on Craigslist to eBay, perhaps? Wouldn’t that be an interesting 1-2 punch?). They have the traffic. They have the brand. It would be pretty easy.
For those reasons, I would not be surprised to see eBay either buy a major player in the job board market, or just damn the torpedoes and do their own thing.
But what does this mean for job seekers and employers? It means clutter.
The world has too much clutter as it is. Eighty-four thousand new brands graced the planet last year - 84,000! I hardly know which new Ben & Jerry’s flavor I want, and now I have another option on the Web to find a job.
But this is why search is so successful and why it will continue to be successful. It helps us human beings cut through the clutter.
So, let eBay join the neverending list of job sites, I say. It’s just another reason for people to go to search engines for answers.
The question is, Are they going to find your jobs or not?
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