Comments on: the red coats are coming! the red coats are coming … to cleveland! http://www.cheezhead.com/2006/05/11/the-red-coats-are-coming-the-red-coats-are-coming-to-cleveland/ insight and opinion from the mind of joel cheesman Fri, 04 Jul 2008 20:13:55 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.2.2 By: Megan Hauer http://www.cheezhead.com/2006/05/11/the-red-coats-are-coming-the-red-coats-are-coming-to-cleveland/#comment-759 Megan Hauer Wed, 17 May 2006 21:05:38 +0000 http://www.cheezhead.com/2006/05/11/the-red-coats-are-coming-the-red-coats-are-coming-to-cleveland/#comment-759 Hi Joel, Thanks for HRSEO shout-out, the whole CareerBoard team is pumped about the JobServe acquisition. It will definitely be an exciting time for our company, and for Northeast Ohio, as we expand our team and grow across the country. Quick note about our "downward spiral". The Alexa graph you linked to shows the last 6-months of traffic - December '05 thru May '06. As you can imagine, our jobseeker traffic spikes at the beginning of new year as people make resolutions to actually get out of that job they've been complaining about for the last year. Plus who wants to look for a job when the sun is shining and it's 70 degrees out. What you are seeing in that graph is more of a natural trend. If you look at this Alexa graph - http://www.alexa.com/data/details/traffic_details?&range=2y&size=medium&compare_sites=&y=r&url=careerboard.com#top - showing traffic over the last 2-years (CB was acquired by HRsmart in March 2004) it clearly shows positive growth during this period. Hope all is well with you! Hi Joel,

Thanks for HRSEO shout-out, the whole CareerBoard team is pumped about the JobServe acquisition. It will definitely be an exciting time for our company, and for Northeast Ohio, as we expand our team and grow across the country.

Quick note about our “downward spiral”. The Alexa graph you linked to shows the last 6-months of traffic - December ‘05 thru May ‘06. As you can imagine, our jobseeker traffic spikes at the beginning of new year as people make resolutions to actually get out of that job they’ve been complaining about for the last year. Plus who wants to look for a job when the sun is shining and it’s 70 degrees out. What you are seeing in that graph is more of a natural trend.

If you look at this Alexa graph - http://www.alexa.com/data/details/traffic_details?&range=2y&size=medium&compare_sites=&y=r&url=careerboard.com#top - showing traffic over the last 2-years (CB was acquired by HRsmart in March 2004) it clearly shows positive growth during this period.

Hope all is well with you!

]]> By: Brett Iredale http://www.cheezhead.com/2006/05/11/the-red-coats-are-coming-the-red-coats-are-coming-to-cleveland/#comment-725 Brett Iredale Thu, 11 May 2006 22:54:51 +0000 http://www.cheezhead.com/2006/05/11/the-red-coats-are-coming-the-red-coats-are-coming-to-cleveland/#comment-725 If what Jobserve did in Australia is anything to go by then I wouldn't be celebrating in Cleveland just yet. Jobserve purchased Australia's leading IT job site "Jobnet" about 2 years ago and have since closed it down and done their best to migrate users to Jobserve. The result is that we lost a fantastic IT job board and had it replaced by a UK job board that hasn't progressed much from the early 90s. There appears to be a big cultural disconnect between the UK site and the Australian users, and all in all it has been a disappointing result. If what Jobserve did in Australia is anything to go by then I wouldn’t be celebrating in Cleveland just yet. Jobserve purchased Australia’s leading IT job site “Jobnet” about 2 years ago and have since closed it down and done their best to migrate users to Jobserve. The result is that we lost a fantastic IT job board and had it replaced by a UK job board that hasn’t progressed much from the early 90s. There appears to be a big cultural disconnect between the UK site and the Australian users, and all in all it has been a disappointing result.

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