Comments on: the importance of creating community around jobs http://www.cheezhead.com/2006/02/22/the-importance-of-creating-community-around-jobs/ Insight and opinion from the world of employment. Mon, 13 Oct 2008 16:53:08 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 By: Dave McClure http://www.cheezhead.com/2006/02/22/the-importance-of-creating-community-around-jobs/#comment-489 Dave McClure Thu, 23 Feb 2006 09:24:09 +0000 http://www.cheezhead.com/2006/02/22/the-importance-of-creating-community-around-jobs/#comment-489 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 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

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