simplyhired on youtube

Tue, Oct 31, 2006

The number of job sites leveraging the power of video sites such as YouTube is growing at a healthy pace. SimplyHired has one of the better ones I’ve seen lately.

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4 Comments For This Post

Ricky Ruhlen Says:
October 31st, 2006 at 2:05 pm

You should have seen our R rated version. It had a different ending. :)

David Manaster Says:
October 31st, 2006 at 6:40 pm

I love the sock puppet cameo!

alohandra Says:
October 31st, 2006 at 6:54 pm

I wish you guys would fire up the simplyfired stuff again. That was incredibly brilliant. The one where the guy calling in on a conference room speaker phone talking about the other guy’s new assistant was el oh el worthy.

dave mcclure Says:
November 2nd, 2006 at 3:20 pm

thanks Joel :)

we had a lot of fun producing those videos last year… here are links to the other Simply Fired videos:
http://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=simplyfired+simplyhired&search=Search

credit where credit is due: Kay Luo did a great job working with some very talented folks out of NYC to produce a great script and final product. we also learned a lot about video production putting them together!

- dave mcclure

(ps – and Ricky is correct… hoo boy)

Ricky Ruhlen Says:
October 31st, 2006 at 2:05 pm
You should have seen our R rated version. It had a different ending. :)
David Manaster Says:
October 31st, 2006 at 6:40 pm
I love the sock puppet cameo!
alohandra Says:
October 31st, 2006 at 6:54 pm
I wish you guys would fire up the simplyfired stuff again. That was incredibly brilliant. The one where the guy calling in on a conference room speaker phone talking about the other guy’s new assistant was el oh el worthy.
dave mcclure Says:
November 2nd, 2006 at 3:20 pm
thanks Joel :)

we had a lot of fun producing those videos last year… here are links to the other Simply Fired videos:
http://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=simplyfired+simplyhired&search=Search

credit where credit is due: Kay Luo did a great job working with some very talented folks out of NYC to produce a great script and final product. we also learned a lot about video production putting them together!

- dave mcclure

(ps – and Ricky is correct… hoo boy)

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