Broadlook Technologies, a company out of Milwaukee that "has emerged as an innovative leader in developing software applications
and services that empower B2B sales, recruiters and research
professionals to be more productive, more knowledgeable and more
profitable," is currently pushing its new vertical job search tool, Job Pulse.
Not pulling any punches, the company goes right after what it considers SimplyHired, Jobster and Indeed’s weaknesses:
- Online job sites make money the longer you stay on their site
- Non-existent/limited archive
- Distracting ads
- Limited ways to arrange, group, sort and view job postings
- No effective way to use company and contact information
Click here to view the site’s online demo (didn’t work for me in Firefox, so boot up the Internet Explorer), which dives particularly deep into Indeed bashing.
The service comes with a fee, but you must talk to a live person to find out how much.
I’ll let you make up your own mind about Job Pulse after viewing their demo, but if you come away from watching and don’t feel the least bit confused, you’re a smarter person than yours truly.
Their tag is "Search and analyze job listings the easy way!" Easy, huh? Well, maybe I’m just stupid.
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February 21st, 2006 at 4:50 pm
I must admit that it didn’t make too much sense to me either. Indeed works, it uses a search process that mimics Google which virtually everyone uses so why reinvent the wheel. Jobpulse maybe thinks round is not the best shape! If you get my drift….
February 21st, 2006 at 5:35 pm
Windows Schmindows!
February 22nd, 2006 at 9:58 pm
I saw a demo of their core product about a year ago. As a generalized web data mining tool it is technically quite impressive. It is also impressively complicated to use. The problem is challenging but they also seemed to have a “but it’s supposed to be hard!” mentality endemic to many engineering-driven organizations.
March 6th, 2009 at 2:34 pm
I had a poor interaction with the sales people, and in fact one of the co-owners. Because I couldn’t make up my mind quickly he blatantly lied and made a fool of himself. Although the product was intriguing I would never do business with them.