We learned last night that Indeed.com has added video to many of its company profile pages. Checkout American Express and its subsequent video page.
The lion’s share of content is taken from Jobing, which, according to Rony Kahan, cofounder of Indeed, has “a lot of videos.” And with Jobing’s embed code, their videos are easily added. Apparently similar offerings like CareerTV and Monster’s Mad Dash-created videos aren’t as share-friendly.
Registered users can also add videos directly into Indeed from the profile pages, similar to adding videos on YouTube. We unfortunately don’t have an example to share at this time.
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April 1st, 2008 at 2:07 pm
This makes sense, it seems like a no brainer, although I don’t see it doing much for Indeed’s business.
Not totally on topic, but I find it astounding that American Express is investing in online recruiting videos when navigating their careers site (especially the campus recruitment section) is like banging your head against the wall. They also appear to have turned a blind eye to SEO on their careers site. Shouldn’t user experience come before things like video?
April 1st, 2008 at 2:58 pm
Ironically virtually none of the Sr. folks featured in the Monster spot are with the company any more. EB, MS, VG all gone.
April 1st, 2008 at 8:44 pm
I seem to remember two nitwits talking about this very thing during a podcast not long ago..
April 15th, 2008 at 4:43 pm
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