If you’re not operating a shady business, and you have confidence in your quality, make it easy for people to cancel memberships. If you have 500 employees prowling job boards, have one of them take 2 hours out of their day to put appropriate links on the site… then you won’t have to pay 20 customer service representatives to answer phones.”

Have you ever seen the movie, “Liar liar” with Jim Carrey? Lawyers are taught to act, literally, to play the game and to take the side of whomever they’re defending. So, in otherwords they’re taught to be evasive and most likely not to be very forthcoming. That’s why they can charge the BIG bucks.

I tried to even find the information on what the monthly fee was and that was hidden as well. Yes, they’re lawyers, but wouldn’t it be great to have a website where consumers could rate lawyers and leave comments, kind of like a consumers advocate site?….oh, I’m sorry, the lawyer would probably sue and there goes another frivolous lawsuit!

I tried to find a lawyer a few years ago for a child custody case. I friend suggested “Christian lawyers.” Now there’s an oxymoron!

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If you’re not operating a shady business, and you have confidence in your quality, make it easy for people to cancel memberships. If you have 500 employees prowling job boards, have one of them take 2 hours out of their day to put appropriate links on the site… then you won’t have to pay 20 customer service representatives to answer phones.

We have well over 2,000,000 jobs-not 1,000,000 as is indicated in the posting. We also have a very aggressive system for removing duplicates and a much greater proportion of our jobs are actual employer jobs and not recruiter jobs as on other sites. Recruiting firm jobs are typically duplicates of the same jobs employers are also advertising.

It takes a tremendous about of work to scan job sites and employer pages for jobs and classify this information. This information could not be easily found by using Google–although all of the information our sites are showing is publicly available. These sites provide a tremendous benefit to users that they cannot get through traditional sites.

Th EmploymenCrossing sites are unbiased in the information they show, do not accept job advertisements and provide a service that is centered towards assisting the job seeker with real jobs they will have a difficult time finding on their own. Just because the information could be found publicly if someone had massive resources does not mean that the information itself is not extremely useful. Google’s value is categorizing and displaying public information. The fact that a job board is being attacked for this shows just how entrenched many in this industry have become to a business model that relies almost exclusively on accepting money from employers to show biased search results and not always working for the benefit of the job seeker. Our sites exist for the job seeker.

As for the model, meh I guess it’s like good ol’ P.T. Barnum said…