I’ve been a fan of the job community for awhile. So has Peter Weddle. So are a few who participate in the Battling Free Google Group.
Supporting such an idea, a study done by eMarketer titled "After College, Using the Web to Find Work," says 83 percent of recent grads consider a career center to be an important feature in a site hoping to appeal to them. If you want to build a community site for new grads, start with job content.
I think the attitude above probably isn’t too far off from the population as a whole. It’s a sound strategy. The job community is a paradigm shift from how we typically think of job boards. Instead of search and see ya’, the community invites you to stay awhile and relax.
Interact is the new black.
Granted, there’s a lot to be said for the fast, efficient search-and-find model. But Google owns this position. Anyone want to take them on? I believe they’ll soon have it for job listings as well. In many aspects, they already do.
The future of online recruitment for the ‘rest of us’ may just lie in specialization of content where jobs is just one offering of many. Come to think of it, if the vertical job search engines get buried by Google, they can always fall back on supporting the infrastructure of a job community.
Instead of Intel inside, think Indeed inside.
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February 23rd, 2006 at 2:24 am
actually Joel, i’d prefer to think *SimplyHired* inside ;)
while both Indeed & SimplyHired are focused on vertical search, i’d like to point out that we (not Indeed) were the ones talking about “Job Search 2.0″ being more than just search, and based on a combination of the following:
1) [vertical] search
2) relevant content
3) application workflow
4) and… *community*
see our November post on this subject below:
http://blog.simplyhired.com/archives/2005/10/gbase_all_your.php
anyway, not taking anything away from Indeed (which has been shipping some neat features lately), but we were the ones who put an emphasis 6+ months ago on building mini-apps for jobseeker workflow, not to mention creating a forums offering for our community.
(aside from that clarification, i think we’re in violent agreement :)
- dave mcclure
http://www.SimplyHired.com