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It’s shaping up to be a very interesting week in the online recruitment space. This is from a story in today’s New York Times:
Taking a slightly different tack are sites like Indeed.com and SimplyHired.com,
which rely on search engines to aggregate a vast array of listings from
newspaper classified ads, job boards, corporate sites and trade
associations.
The field will expand again tomorrow, when JobCentral, Indeed,
SimplyHired and Google Base, a database recently introduced by the
search engine company, are to announce that they are teaming up to
create a national labor exchange at JobCentral.com. The site, which has
about 340,000 jobs posted, will incorporate jobs found by its partners
and provide the technology to let those sites link to its information. [Bill] Warren, creator of the job site that later became Monster, said the
alliance would result in the amassing of information on about 4.5
million jobs.
"The benefit to the job applicant is that they can go to one place
and basically see all the jobs on the Internet," Mr. Warren said.
Click here for the full story (free registration). And buckle-up.
January 16th, 2006 at 9:05 am
Joel,
I think this is a bad move for Simplyhired and Indeed. Since they are playing with a Monster/CB/HotJobs direct competitor, I think this will speed up the process of them banning the aggregators. We’ll see how it plays out.
January 16th, 2006 at 3:16 pm
the Times report has several inaccuracies.
we’re in the process of asking them to clarify.
in any case, we’ll be issuing a further statement tomorrow.