careerbuilder’s spin on google base to its customers

Thu, Nov 17, 2005

The following text was sent to current CareerBuilder customers via e-mail:

Subject: CareerBuilder.com — The Only US Job Board to Partner With Google

Copy: CareerBuilder.com is the only major US job board posting to Google’s new classified site, Google Base. CareerBuilder.com was instrumental in helping Google to launch this product.

This relationship gives CareerBuilder.com premier relationships with 3 out of the 4 top web properties: AOL, MSN, and Google.

All CareerBuilder.com jobs are posted to Google’s site — giving exposure to 80 million more Americans

Post your jobs to CareerBuilder.com today to take advantage of this unprecedented exposure.

Surprisingly! CareerBuilder fails to inform their customers that they can bypass posting on Career Builder and post directly to Google Base on their own.

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Yes, shockingly, CareerBuilder fails to inform their customers that they could bypass Career Builder’s $389 per-posting pricetag and list their jobs on Google for free.

Maybe that part will be in a follow-up e-mail next week … NOT!

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1 Comments For This Post

Natalie Says:
November 28th, 2005 at 6:04 pm

*** THE ORIGIN OF THIS COMMENT’S IP ADDRESS RESIDES AT CAREERBUILDER.COM ***
Yes sure companies can post their jobs for free directly on Google Base, but you forget that Careerbuilder has 17-20 million visitors per month that Employers have exposure to. It’s not like Careerbuilder is claiming that $389 is the cost because the jobs are being fed to Base. Automatic posting to the site is value add. And Careerbuilder postings get priority on Google Base.

Natalie Says:
November 28th, 2005 at 6:04 pm
*** THE ORIGIN OF THIS COMMENT’S IP ADDRESS RESIDES AT CAREERBUILDER.COM ***
Yes sure companies can post their jobs for free directly on Google Base, but you forget that Careerbuilder has 17-20 million visitors per month that Employers have exposure to. It’s not like Careerbuilder is claiming that $389 is the cost because the jobs are being fed to Base. Automatic posting to the site is value add. And Careerbuilder postings get priority on Google Base.

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