Comments on: careerbuilder to shut-off simply hired? http://www.cheezhead.com/2007/06/26/careerbuilder-simply-hired/ insight and opinion from the mind of joel cheesman Fri, 16 May 2008 19:50:01 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.2.2 By: Opie http://www.cheezhead.com/2007/06/26/careerbuilder-simply-hired/#comment-37081 Opie Sat, 30 Jun 2007 00:25:40 +0000 http://www.cheezhead.com/2007/06/26/careerbuilder-simply-hired/#comment-37081 Who really cares about Simply Hired anyway? They only good thing they ever did to drive traffic was MySpace. With a nice sampling of postings, Indeed beats them by 10x Who really cares about Simply Hired anyway? They only good thing they ever did to drive traffic was MySpace. With a nice sampling of postings, Indeed beats them by 10x

]]> By: Not surprised http://www.cheezhead.com/2007/06/26/careerbuilder-simply-hired/#comment-36201 Not surprised Tue, 26 Jun 2007 21:09:49 +0000 http://www.cheezhead.com/2007/06/26/careerbuilder-simply-hired/#comment-36201 If this is true -- Indeed now has an interesting dilemma...like SimplyHired, their ultimate goal has to be to route around the job boards and provide HR solutions directly for employers...thats where the real money is (unless like Kayak they can convince the job boards to pay them for their organic search results.) But as soon as they make the switch, they'll get shut down. So they have to have enough traffic built up and make deals very fast before CareerBuilder and Monster shuts them down. Makes for a very interesting game of chicken. If this is true — Indeed now has an interesting dilemma…like SimplyHired, their ultimate goal has to be to route around the job boards and provide HR solutions directly for employers…thats where the real money is (unless like Kayak they can convince the job boards to pay them for their organic search results.) But as soon as they make the switch, they’ll get shut down. So they have to have enough traffic built up and make deals very fast before CareerBuilder and Monster shuts them down.

Makes for a very interesting game of chicken.

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